Hamas wants to start negotiations on the ceasefire’s more difficult second phase, which would see the release of remaining hostages from Gaza, the withdrawal of Israeli forces and a lasting peace.

Hamas says it will release a US-Israeli hostage and 4 bodies but Israel expresses immediate doubt Edan Alexander was 19 when he was taken from his base on the border with Gaza in southern Israel ...

JERUSALEM — Hamas said on Friday it has accepted a proposal from mediators to release one living American-Israeli hostage and the bodies of four dual-nationals, hostages who had died in captivity.

Hamas in an official statement says it has agreed to a proposal to release hostage soldier Edan Alexander, who is a US ...

Israel and Hamas are considering a new US-backed ceasefire proposal that would pause the war, free Israeli hostages and send ...

Hamas says it has agreed to Israel's request to speed up release of Israeli hostages, including two men held around a decade. The bodies of members of a young family are among those it will hand over.

Hamas accepted a proposal for a US-backed hostage release-ceasefire agreement with Israel Saturday after dropping its most intransigent demand: that the Jewish state promise a total end to the ...

Hamas has tentatively agreed to release at least 50 civilian hostages, mostly women and children, if Israel agrees to certain conditions including a temporary cease-fire. Skip to content All Sections ...

Hamas plans to release three Israeli hostages Thursday — two women and an 80-year-old man — as well as five Thai nationals abducted during the Oct. 7, 2023, attack. The Hostages Families Forum ...

Israel has agreed to a US proposal on a prisoner-hostage exchange that would release around 700 Palestinian prisoners, among them 100 serving life sentences for killing Israeli nationals, in ...

Under this phase, Hamas agreed to release 33 hostages taken during the Oct. 7, 2023 attack that killed 1,200 people, resulted in around 250 hostages being captured, and started the ongoing conflict.

Hamas wants to start negotiations on the ceasefire’s more difficult second phase, which would see the release of remaining hostages from Gaza, the withdrawal of Israeli forces and a lasting peace.