Most of more than 250 hostages captured in the initial Hamas attack were freed in earlier ceasefires or confirmed dead, but ...

C AIRO (AP) — A top Hamas official says the militant group will free six living Israeli hostages on Saturday and return the bodies of four others on Thursday, a surprise acceleration in releases ...

Hamas will release six more hostages on Saturday and the bodies of four deceased hostages on Thursday, Hamas and Israel confirmed. Four more dead hostages are expected to be released next week in ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Hamas is set to free six more Israeli hostages Saturday from the Gaza Strip, but the exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners is shadowed by heightened tension between the ...

A U.S. appeals court urged the Trump administration on Thursday to back off from its escalating confrontation with the ...

Freed were three Israeli men seized from the Nova music festival and another taken while visiting family in southern Israel during the Hamas-led ... for a deal to free all hostages still held.

Hamas is prepared to release all of the remaining hostages at once in exchange for a permanent ceasefire, a senior Palestinian official familiar with the ongoing truce talks told The Times of ...

“The more Hamas persists in its refusal to free hostages, the more territory it will lose,” Mr. Katz said, adding that areas captured by Israel would be held indefinitely. Mediators were still ...

Zamir told the family that the return of the hostages remains an operational ... Witkoff told the press on March 6 that the United States wants Hamas to free Alexander as a show of goodwill.

Hamas took more than 240 people in Israel hostage during the Oct. 7 massacre and more than 40 have died in captivity. Calls for a ceasefire grew more urgent in September when Israel determined the ...

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