Eight hostages held by Hamas militants are returned to Israel as Palestinian prisoner releases proceed — but can the Gaza ...

The cease-fire has held despite a dispute earlier this week over the sequence in which the hostages were released.

Hamas handed captive Israeli soldier Agam Berger over to the Red Cross in the Gaza Strip, the first of eight hostages set to ...

Hamas freed the first of eight hostages on Thursday in the latest release since a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip took hold ...

Long lines of Palestinians -- some kneeling to kiss the soil as they stepped into the northern part of the strip -- were ...

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The five hostages were among the 31 Thai agricultural workers who were captured by Hamas from four farms close to the Gaza ...

The truce is aimed at winding down the deadliest and most destructive war ever fought between Israel and Hamas, whose Oct. 7, ...