Palestinian children stand and watch as Hamas fighters take up a position ahead of handing over four bodies to the Red Cross in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on February 20, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP Israel prepared on Saturday (February 22, 2025) to receive six more hostages from Gaza in exchange for hundreds of … Read more
People block a road as they protest, calling for a deal for the immediate release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by Hamas, in Tel Aviv, Israel on September 1, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP A rare call for a general strike in Israel to protest the failure to return hostages held in Gaza … Read more
Palestinians gather on a beach in the hope of getting aid air-dropped over Gaza, amid the ongoing the conflict between Israel and Hamas, in the southern Gaza Strip on February 27, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Israel and Hamas are inching toward a new deal that would free some of the roughly 130 hostages held … Read more
A Protester lifts a national flag during a rally demanding the release of Israelis taken hostage a hundred days earlier by the Palestinian Hamas group on October 7, outside the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem on January 15, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP Qatar says it has mediated a deal between Israel and Hamas to allow … Read more
JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday rejected growing calls for a ceasefire in Gaza until all of the more than 240 hostages captured by militant Palestinian group Hamas during its Oct. 7 attacks are returned. “There will be no ceasefire without the return of the hostages. This should be completely removed from the … Read more