Israel bars Turkey from entering Gaza until hostages return | The Jerusalem Post Jerusalem Post/Israel News Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also convened senior security officials to discuss Hamas’s refusal to return the bodies of the fallen and the next phase of the Trump plan. Hamas terrorists and Gazan civilians congregate in Jabalya, northern Gaza Strip. … Read more
Israelis on Monday celebrated the return of the last 20 living hostages who were held in Gaza under the first phase of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire. Over the next two days, Hamas said it also released bodies of eight hostages. However, the Israeli military said Wednesday one of the bodies released was not that of a … Read more
More than two dozen countries were represented at the Gaza summit in Egypt on Monday, as US President Donald Trump and other world leaders signed a ceasefire deal. According to a list obtained by CNN from a White House official, the summit drew participation from key global and regional players, including the Arab League secretary … Read more
U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff spoke at Saturday night’s rally in Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, the largest crowd reported there since it became the gathering place for relatives of Israelis taken hostage in the Oct. 7, 2023, attack. Alongside Jared Kushner and his wife, Ivanka Trump, Witkoff told the crowd President Trump would love … Read more
Hamas threatens that Gaza City invasion will kill hostages | The Jerusalem Post Jerusalem Post/Israel News Additionally, senior Hamas official Bassem Naim warned that any further IDF operations in Gaza would result in harm to the hostages. HAMAS TERRORISTS keep guard on the day Hamas handed over deceased hostages, in Khan Yunis, Feb. 20, 2025. … Read more
Khalil al-Hayya, Hamas’s chief negotiator, said in a speech on Tuesday that militants intend to hand over the remains of four Israeli hostages to Israel on Thursday in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoners. Mr. Hayya said that members of the Bibas family would be among the four bodies handed over to Israel on … Read more
Hamas says it will continue releasing Israeli hostages Financial Times Israel threatens ‘intense fighting’ in Gaza if Hamas doesn’t release hostages NBC News Israel and Hamas Agree to Resolve Cease-Fire Dispute The Wall Street Journal Hamas says it is willing to move ahead with Gaza ceasefire Reuters Trump’s special envoy for hostage affairs warns Hamas not to test Trump … Read more
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel warned Hamas on Tuesday that if hostages were not released by noon on Saturday, the cease-fire in the war in the Gaza Strip would end and Israeli troops would resume “intense fighting.” Mr. Netanyahu said that Hamas’s threat on Monday to postpone the next round of hostage releases amounted … Read more
Hamas on Saturday released four female Israeli soldiers held hostage in the Gaza Strip, in a choreographed ceremony that was the latest sign of the group’s effort to project power despite Israel’s 470-day military campaign to dislodge them. It was the second release of hostages as part of a cease-fire deal that went into effect … Read more
The Israeli military has said there is a “high probability” that three hostages found dead in a tunnel at the end of last year were mistakenly killed in a strike that also took the life of Hamas’s northern Gaza brigade chief, Ahmed al-Ghandour, in November. The families of Col Nik Beizer and Sgt Ron Sherman, … Read more