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Their release is scheduled for Sunday, 19 January 2025. Hamas officials in Doha who participated in the ceasefire talks said Hamas has handed Israel the list of three hostages, says news agency AFP.

For many Israelis, the ceasefire offers a brief respite from relentless conflict. The return of hostages has provided closure ...

Former CIA official Sarah Adams has made some startling observations in her investigative report, suggesting that the Hamas ...

It was Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath, when Steve Witkoff, President-elect Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy, sat down with ...

Israel and Hamas signed the deal in Doha in the early hours of Friday ... release of the hostages in Gaza outside Hakirya base in Tel Aviv, January 14, 2025. (credit: Raquel G.

Latest news and live updates as a Gaza ceasefire deal is reached after more than a year of war between Israel and Hamas.

As the deal was announced, “hostages square” in Tel Aviv was calm, with some Israelis unaware that ... contours of the deal before the official announcement by mediators in Doha. President Joe Biden ...

In Tel Aviv, the hostage families and their supporters ... Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had left the previous day for Doha. Since the end of November 2023 and the release of around 100 ...

The deal, not yet formally announced, outlines a six-week initial ceasefire phase and includes the gradual withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza and release of hostages held by Hamas in exchange for ...

According to the Houthi spokesman, the missile hit the target and Israeli air defense systems "failed to intercept it." DOHA, January 18. /TASS/. The Houthis from Yemen's rebel Ansar Allah ...

Israel and Hamas have agreed to pause the devastating war in the Gaza Strip, mediators announced Wednesday, raising the possibility of winding down the deadliest and most destructive fighting between ...