Israel-Hamas War

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.

Romney Smith reports on today’s court hearing for the pro-Palestinian activist arrested by ICE.

Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist who helped lead student protests at Columbia University, faces deportation after being arrested over the weekend by federal immigration officials.

A crowd in the hundreds gathered at Washington Square Park called for the release of former Columbia grad student Mahmoud Khalil. In 2024, Khalil was one of the leaders inside Columbia’s campus protests of the Israel-Hamas war. Federal immigration agents picked up Khalil, a permanent resident with a green card, on Saturday Columbia student-housing apartment. NBC New York’s Gaby Acevedo...

A Palestinian activist who helped lead student protests at Columbia University faces deportation after being arrested over the weekend by federal immigration officials. So who is Mahmoud Khalil and why is he facing deportation?

Israel has cut off the electricity supply to Gaza. The move has affected a desalination plant producing drinking water for part of the arid territory.

The arrest appeared to be among the first known actions under Trump’s pledge to deport international students who joined the protests against Israel’s war in Gaza.

Trump has called for Gaza’s population to be resettled elsewhere permanently so that the United States can take over the territory and develop it.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday issued what he called a “last warning” to Hamas to release all remaining hostages held in Gaza.

Co-creators Solo Avital and Ariel Vromen said they’re not sure how their video made its way to the president and that the video was meant to be satirical.