The Palestinian resistance group Hamas handed over three Israeli captives to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Sunday as part of the initial phase of a ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement.
Hamas' armed wing, the Qassam (...)
The Gaza-based Prisoners Media Office announced Saturday that lists of Palestinian prisoners scheduled for release as part of the ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement with Israel will be published daily before each exchange. This follows an (...)
Ahead through his windscreen, and behind in his rear view mirror, Mustafa al Qadri can see the rest of the long convoy heading toward the Jordan Valley. We pass through the sand-colored, rocky land that descends in the direction of the Dead Sea, (...)
A ceasefire deal to bring an end to the 15-month-long conflict between Israel and Hamas has been finalized in Qatar.
Israel has long said it would not agree to any ceasefire until it completed military operations in the territory, which were sparked (...)
"We have been waiting for this for a long time," 17-year-old Sanabel says. "Finally, I will put my head on my pillow without worrying."
She is one of millions of Palestinians across Gaza celebrating the ceasefire deal that the US and mediators Qatar (...)
Key mediators in a ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel say that a landmark agreement has been reached to pause the 15-month war in the Gaza Strip, starting 19 January. Israel has said the deal is in its final stages.
Israel's Prime Minister (...)
The area in Gaza which Israel's military has told people to go to "for their safety" has been hit by 97 strikes since May, BBC Verify analysis has revealed.
The findings come as negotiations for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas appear to be (...)
Israeli airstrikes targeted homes in the Gaza Strip killing at least 17 Palestinians late on Tuesday, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry.
The bodies of 11 people were brought to Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital after a strike smashed into a (...)
Hamas has accepted a draft agreement for a ceasefire with Israel which would involve a pause in fighting and the immediate release of a dozen Israeli hostages, two officials involved in the talks said Tuesday.
The plan, however, would need approval (...)
A senior Hamas official has shared with the BBC a list of 34 hostages that the Palestinian group says it is willing to release in the first stage of a potential ceasefire agreement with Israel.
It is unclear how many hostages remain alive.
Among (...)
At least 30 Palestinians were killed and 14 others remain missing following Israeli airstrikes on Saturday targeting Gaza City, Deir al-Balah, and Khan Younis.
A medical source said that 11 Palestinians were killed and others injured in an airstrike (...)
Israeli forces bombed the so-called "humanitarian zone" of al-Mawasi in southern Gaza, killing at least 11 Palestinians, including the chief of the territory's Hamas-run police force, medics say.
Three children and two women were also reportedly (...)
The commissioner-general of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, has issued a stark warning that children in Gaza are freezing to death due to cold weather and a dire lack of shelter and supplies.
"Gaza babies are (...)
One of northern Gaza's last functioning hospitals has been forcibly evacuated by the Israeli military, medics say, after dozens of people were reportedly killed in Israeli air strikes targeting the area around the healthcare facility.
Eid Sabbah, (...)
A Palestinian TV channel says five of its journalists have been killed in an Israeli strike in the central Gaza Strip.
They were in a Quds Today van parked outside al-Awda hospital, where the wife of one of the journalists was about to give birth, (...)
Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip overnight and early Sunday killed at least 20 people, including five children, according to Palestinian medical officials.
Israeli authorities permitted Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the leader of the (...)
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday accused Israel of "acts of genocide" against Palestinians in Gaza by depriving them of adequate water supplies.
The group, in an extensive report, found that between October 2023 and September 2024, Israeli (...)
Hamas has become the latest party to the Gaza hostage and ceasefire negotiations to voice optimism about the prospects of reaching a deal, amid a flurry of diplomatic activity in the region.
In an official statement on Tuesday, Hamas said reaching (...)
More than 50 people were killed in Israeli air and ground attacks across the Gaza Strip on Sunday, according to local medics and rescuers.
They said children, a cameraman who worked for the Al Jazeera TV network and personnel from the Civil Defense (...)
The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) announced Sunday it is suspending aid deliveries through the Kerem Shalom cargo crossing into Gaza, citing security threats from armed gangs that have looted recent convoys.
The decision (...)
Two girls, aged 13 and 17, and a 50-year-old woman were killed on Friday in the Gaza Strip as a desperate crowd surged to secure bread from a bakery, medical officials reported.
The tragedy occurred at the al-Banna bakery in Deir al-Balah, (...)
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who have been displaced multiple times from Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip are now facing another threat – the arrival of harsh winter weather.
On Sunday, the first strong storm to hit Gaza this winter (...)
At least six Palestinians, including two children, were killed on Sunday in fresh Israeli airstrikes in the central Gaza Strip, a medical source reported.
Israeli fighter jets targeted a house in the Bureij refugee camp, killing four people, the (...)
A convoy of 109 UN aid lorries carrying food was violently looted in Gaza on Saturday, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) says.
Ninety-seven of the lorries were lost and their drivers were forced at gunpoint to unload their aid after (...)
At least 96 Palestinians were killed and 60 others injured in Israeli airstrikes on the northern and central Gaza Strip on Sunday, according to local authorities.
Gaza's government media office reported that Israeli warplanes targeted multiple (...)
