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Hamas has announced that it has approved a list of 34 Israeli hostages to be returned as part of ongoing negotiations aimed at establishing a ceasefire in Gaza. This claim…

The Palestinian group Hamas and Israel traded blame over their failure to conclude a ceasefire agreement despite progress reported by both sides in the past days. Hamas said that Israel…

Defence Minister Israel Katz acknowledged that Israel had assassinated former Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran earlier this year while warning that it would also “decapitate” the leadership of Yemen’s…

Hamas said talks in Qatar on Tuesday aimed at a truce and hostage-prisoner exchange in Gaza were “serious and positive”, a day after an Israeli delegation arrived in Doha to…

Israel’s government has approved a plan to increase the number of settlers in the illegally occupied Golan Heights, days after seizing more Syrian territory following the toppling of Syria’s longtime…

Gaza’s health ministry said Monday that Israel’s offensive against Hamas militants in the Palestinian enclave has killed more than 45,000 people. The conflict has also wounded nearly 107,000 people, the…

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has ordered the military to “prepare to remain” throughout the winter in the UN-patrolled buffer zone that is supposed to separate Israeli and Syrian forces…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the witness stand for the first time on Tuesday in his long-running corruption trial, saying he was being hounded for his hawkish security policies.…

  Ceasefire negotiations have reached an advanced stage, with mediators giving names of captives and Palestinian detainees to be exchanged. Committees from Hamas, Israel, and Egypt have started work on…

Israel’s prime minister has announced its military has temporarily seized control of a demilitarized buffer zone in the Golan Heights, saying the 1974 disengagement agreement with Syria had “collapsed” with…