Israel-Hamas War

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said early Sunday that the ceasefire in Gaza will not begin until Hamas provides the names of the three hostages it is set to release later on Sunday.

The deal “was only really accepted in the end because Trump came along,” a former hostage negotiator told NBC News.

Israel’s Cabinet approved a deal early Saturday for a ceasefire in Gaza that would release dozens of hostages held there and pause the 15-month war with Hamas.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says a deal to return Hamas-held hostages in the Gaza Strip has been reached.

President Joe Biden spoke about the ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel.

Both President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump are claiming credit for the Gaza ceasefire deal being reached. Here’s what they said.

Senators John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Chuck Schumer, D-New York, react to the news of a cease fire deal between Israel and Hamas.

According to the deal, fighting will pause in Gaza for six weeks, and dozens of Israeli hostages, as well as hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, will be freed.

A ceasefire deal was reached Wednesday to end 15 months of fighting in the Gaza Strip, according to President Joe Biden, Qatar’s prime minister and Hamas officials.

Palestinians in Gaza were cautiously optimistic after President Joe Biden said negotiators were “on the brink” of securing a truce between Israel and Hamas.

A ceasefire and hostage release deal between Israel and Hamas is “on the brink of coming to fruition,” President Joe Biden said Monday.

Israel’s military said the body of Yosef Al Zaydani was recovered in an underground tunnel in Gaza and that it was examining whether a second body was that of another hostage.

Hospital and emergency response workers say Israeli strikes have killed at least 42 people in Gaza. Children were among the dead in the strikes that occurred overnight and into Friday.

U.S. officials say they asked for — and got — the retraction of an independent monitor’s warning of imminent famine in north Gaza.

There is a shortage of blankets and warm clothing, little wood for fires, and the tents and patched-together tarps families are living in have grown increasingly threadbare after months of heavy use.

Palestinian families are suing the State Department over U.S. support for Israel’s military campaign in the Gaza Strip, which has killed tens of thousands of people and led to a humanitarian crisis in the besieged enclave.

Israel says it will close its embassy in Ireland as relations deteriorate over the war in Gaza, where Palestinian medical officials say new Israeli airstrikes have killed over 30 people including children.

Humanitarian aid to northern Gaza, where Israel launched a ground offensive on Oct. 6, has largely been blocked for the past 66 days.

A memorial service was held on Long Island Tuesday for an Israeli American soldier from New York who was believed to have been taken hostage alive on Oct. 7, 2023, and is now presumed to have been killed during Hamas’ attack and his body taken into Gaza, according to the Israel military. Omer Neutra was a Long Island native who…

Omer Neutra was believed to have been taken hostage after the Oct. 7, 2023 attack. But now, officials have confirmed his death that day. News 4’s Greg Cergol reports.