Gaza, Israel

The Gaza War Is Paused, but Israel and Hamas Keep up a Fierce Battle of Optics Over Hostage Releases
Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants secure the area as Red Cross representatives wait for the handover of Thai and Israeli hostages in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Thursday Jan. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Israel ‘proud to return and fight’ in Gaza after hostages released, IDF chief of staff says
We are a military that is very proud to implement the [government’s] policy, to implement the decision to return the hostages, and we will be just as proud to return and fight,” Halevi
Israel lets Palestinians return to northern Gaza for the first time in over a year as truce holds
Qatar says an agreement has been reached to release an Israeli civilian hostage and allow Palestinians to return to northern Gaza.
Moscow Urges Hamas to Release Russian Hostage From Gaza
A senior Russian diplomat urged a top official of the Palestinian movement Hamas on Monday to keep to its commitment to release a Russian hostage held by the group since its raid on Israel in October 2023.
Hamas using release of hostages to rebuild forces, Israelis claim
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 handover and conducting reconnaissance with drones that film the ceremonies.
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Trump envoy calls Gaza rebuilding timeline in Israel-Hamas truce 'preposterous'
President Donald Trump's Middle East envoy said Tuesday that a three to five year timeline for reconstruction of Gaza, as set ...
What to Know About Aid to Gaza Two Weeks Into the Israel-Hamas Cease-Fire
Two weeks after the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel took effect, much-needed humanitarian assistance is surging into the ...
Who Will Govern Postwar Gaza? Four Competing Models Are Emerging.
Hamas still controls most of the enclave, but Israel holds some key areas. International oversight could also be expanded, ...
Gaza ceasefire to dominate Netanyahu, Trump talks today
The future of the precarious Gaza ceasefire is expected to dominate much of the closed-door discussion when President Trump ...
The Economist4d
What Israel and Hamas can learn from past ceasefires
The next test for Israel and Hamas will come on February 2nd, when talks resume on the next stage of the ceasefire—which ...
Foreign Affairs6d
Israel, Trump, and the Gaza Deal
Already, the fragile deal has come under considerable stress, and it could collapse in the weeks to come. Yet for the time ...
Middle East latest: 2 freed hostages are back in Israel
Two released hostages, Ofer Kalderon and Yarden Bibas, have arrived in Israel and are on their way to an initial reception ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency4d
Biden: Israel will get ‘everything it needs’ to fight Hamas; Gaza war is ‘not genocide’
A pledge to back Israel comes after weeks of ... the 128 hostages still believed to be in Gaza front of the American mind. “We all need to be fighting every day all day to bring them home ...
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After Gaza Cease-fire, the Labor Movement Isn’t Done Fighting for Palestinian Freedom
Children wave Palestinian flags after the announcement of ceasefire and hostage-prisoner swap deal between Hamas and Israel on January 19, 2025 in Rafah, Gaza. (Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu ...