By JERUSALEM POST STAFF (L-R) Amit Buskila, Shani Louk, Itzik Gelernter ... between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 11, 2024.

(JTA) — Following six weeks of fighting, Israel’s government has agreed to a deal with Hamas that will free about 50 of the hundreds of hostages that Hamas took in its Oct. 7 attack on Israel.

Israel accused Hamas of rejecting a U.S. proposal to extend phase one of the ceasefire deal. Describing the aid stoppage as "blackmail," Hamas said it was ready to begin talks for the next phase.

Lifshitz was abducted by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, and his remains were returned from Gaza to Israel last week as part of a ceasefire with Hamas. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg) A woman looks at photos of ...

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 ...

They are the final group of hostages to be released under the first phase of a ceasefire that began last month. Hamas has returned bodies of four Israeli hostages who were killed in captivity in ...

Despite months of saying that all of the Hamas leaders are in Khan Yunis in southern Gaza, some may be in central Gaza, the Jerusalem Post has learned. Generally before October 7, Hamas’s ...

Now, with 16 Israelis released since Jan. 19 under the ceasefire deal with Hamas, those haunting faces are coming to life in video clips, social... Two new construction sites, located within what ...

Marilda Azulay, president of the Jewish Community of Valencia, urges feminism to defend “women murdered, raped and kidnapped by Hamas” Calls for the immediate return of the 59 kidnapped women and ...

When Judith Butler expressed something approximating grudging horror–if one may characterise her ambivalence that way–at Hamas’s 7 October murder rampage in Israel, in her London Review of Books essay ...

He speaks here with BICOM Director Richard Pater about the role of Iran in supporting its proxies, Hamas and Hezbollah, to wage war on Israel. Richard Pater: What was the relationship between Iran and ...