Israel-Hamas War

Plans were discussed in a meeting Tuesday night in Brooklyn, where participants wore masks and only identified themselves by their Signal handles.

Edan Alexander, who grew up in New Jersey, was doing voluntary service with Israel’s military when he was taken hostage on Oct. 7, 2023.

“We have a U.S. citizen, a child, who was murdered in cold blood,” one official told NBC News. “Why should we not be treated equally as any other American?”

The Jewish holiday, which begins at sunset on Saturday, April 12 this year, lasts for seven or eight days each year.

During an Oval Office conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Donald Trump doubled down again on the United States taking control over the Gaza Strip.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday will meet with Trump for the second time since Trump began his latest term in January.

Israeli airstrikes killed at least 100 Palestinians on Thursday, including 27 or more sheltering at a school, according to Palestinian medical authorities.

People with ties to American universities, most of whom have shown support for pro-Palestinian causes, have been detained in the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants.

In a high-level deportation fight in Newark, the Trump administration has urged a federal judge to move the case of Mahmoud Khalil to Louisiana. The Columbia University pro-Palestinian activist is asking to be freed from a Louisiana detention center, but his lawyers want a New Jersey judge to decide. NBC New York’s Chris Glorioso reports.

Hamdan Ballal and two others have been released by Israel, a day after he was badly beaten by Jewish settlers and detained by Israeli forces.

The father of the last living American hostage being held by Hamas in Gaza is hoping that the Trump administration’s negotiators can help bring his son home safely.

He remains in detention in Louisiana as his attorneys fight his detention and the Trump administration argues he “led activities aligned to Hamas.”

The Israeli military sent ground troops back into the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, just over a day after it broke a two-month ceasefire.

The Israel Defense Forces announced the incursion just over a day after breaking the ceasefire with a sprawling bombing campaign that killed hundreds across the enclave.

Israel has launched airstrikes across the Gaza Strip that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says are “only the beginning” and “a necessary condition for freeing hostages.”

The wave of Israeli strikes that killed hundreds of Palestinians across the Gaza Strip early Tuesday was the culmination of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s efforts to get out of the ceasefire with Hamas that he agreed to in January. Since the start of the war, Netanyahu has faced dueling, possibly incompatible pressures. Families of the hostages want him to cut...

Israel’s military on Tuesday launched the deadliest strikes on the Gaza Strip since the agreement of its ceasefire with Hamas, killing hundreds of people and shattering the fragile truce.

Mahmoud Khalil was taken into custody by immigration authorities last weekend, prompting outrage.

Hamas says 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. The militant group did not immediately on Friday specify when the release of soldier Edan Alexander and the four bodies would occur, or what it expected to receive in return. Israeli Prime Minister...

Nearly 100 protesters were arrested Thursday following a sit-in at Trump Tower in Manhattan to demand the release of Palestinian activist, Mahmoud Khalil.