Since Israel and Hamas went to war, reporters and editors at The New York Times have closely covered the conflict. Our coverage includes the Hamas-led attack on Israel, the plight of hostages ...

Hamas is using the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and ceremonies to release the hostages as an opportunity to rebuild itself and ...

Terror group exploiting ceremonies to rebuild its forces and conduct reconnaissance of surrounding areas, Israeli sources say ...

where a prosecutor said earlier in the day that he would be seeking war crimes charges against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and top Hamas officials. “Let me be clear: We reject the ...

Immediate issue is future of hostage-release ceasefire deal in Gaza war; PM says working closely with US president, 'we can ...

Israel has inflicted “serious and sometimes life-threatening danger” on pregnant and postpartum women and girls in Gaza over ...

More than 15 months after the Hamas-led attacks on Israel that triggered the war in Gaza, a ceasefire agreement has come into effect, paving the way for a hostage release. Hamas seized 251 people ...

2025 Hamas said on Friday it would free the father of the youngest hostages seized in its Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel and two others including a dual U.S. citizen and a dual French citizen in ...

From the blog of Orna Raz at The Times of Israel ...

Hamas has been using hostage-release operations to rebuild its forces and map territory within Gaza, according to Israeli sources. The terror group is deploying more soldiers at each successive ...

a soldier killed in the 2014 Israel-Hamas war, in a special operation in Gaza. The bodies of Shaul and another soldier, Hadar Goldin, had remained after the 2014 war. The ceasefire deal was ...