Officials met Hamas three times, breaking with a policy against contacting a group the U.S. considers a terrorist ...

An Israeli military official said that reserve pilots who publicly called for securing the release of hostages, even at the ...

Israeli troops ramped up ground operations in Gaza as part of its efforts to expand control in the region and pressure Hamas ...

Freed Israeli hostage Yarden Bibas, whose wife and two young children were killed by Hamas, called on President Trump to end ...

Trump did not say "Nazis treated Jewish prisoners with love" but suggested they'd shown more "love or affection" than Hamas showed its hostages ...

Ongoing Israeli bombing in Gaza is jeopardizing the lives of the hostages still held by Hamas, freed captives say. They're ...

Former captives and their families, alongside relatives of current hostages and Oct. 7 victims, set to join 80 Holocaust ...

Amira El-Fekki is a Newsweek reporter based in Dubai. Her focus is reporting on politics and society in the Middle East. She has in depth knowledge of Arab communities and has covered human rights ...

Oded Lifshitz, an 83-year-old great-grandfather, returned to Israel in a coffin more than 500 days after he was taken from ...

Since Israel and Hamas went to war, reporters and editors at The New York Times have closely covered the conflict. Our coverage includes the Hamas-led attack on Israel, the plight of hostages, how ...

Nearly 1,000 Israeli retired and reservist fighter pilots called in an open letter on Thursday for the government to prioritise freeing remaining hostages held in Gaza, even if that meant halting the ...