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People block the entrance to Israel's defense ministry headquarters during a protest in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, March 8, 2025, demanding the immediate release of hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
Israel will send a delegation to Qatar to try to ‘advance’ ceasefire negotiations
Israel says it will send a delegation to Qatar on Monday “in an effort to advance the negotiations” around the ceasefire in Gaza.
 
Fatima Al-Absi prepares food for her family's iftar, the fast-breaking meal, on the first day of Ramadan in their damaged apartment in Jabaliya, northern Gaza Strip, on Saturday, March 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Loss, worry and prayers for better days mark Ramadan’s start as fragile ceasefire holds in Gaza
For Palestinians observing Ramadan in Gaza, the Muslim holy month started this year under a fragile ceasefire agreement that paused more than 15 months of the Israel-Hamas war.
 
Mohammed Sahloul, 17, is greeted by his sister Nidaa after being released from an Israeli prison in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Israel and Hamas have begun negotiating next phase of Gaza ceasefire, Egypt says
Egypt says negotiations between Israel and Hamas on the next phase of the Gaza ceasefire have begun in Cairo. Egypt’s state information service said officials from Israel, Qatar and the U.S. started “intensive discussions” Thursday.
 
Freed Palestinian prisoners react as they arrive in the Gaza Strip after being released from an Israeli prison following a ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Hamas hands over bodies of 4 hostages to Israel as dozens of Palestinians leave Israeli prison
An Israeli security official says Hamas has handed to the Red Cross the bodies of four Israelis who were held hostage in Gaza.
 
A two-month-old Palestinian baby, Eila Sarsak, receives treatment in an incubator at the Patient Friends Hospital in Gaza City, where she has been in intensive care for ten days due to the effects of the cold weather, on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Medics say 6 babies have died from the cold in Gaza as displaced people shelter in tents and rubble
Palestinian medics say at least six infants have died from hypothermia in the last two weeks in the Gaza Strip. Hundreds of thousands of people are living in tent camps and war-damaged buildings under a fragile ceasefire.
 
Family members waiting for the release of Palestinian prisoners follow developments early Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025, after receiving news that Israel has delayed the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners scheduled for Saturday, in the West Bank city of Ramallah. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
Israel delays release of Palestinian prisoners, citing ‘humiliating’ handovers of hostages
Israel says the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners is delayed “until the release of the next hostages has been assured, and without the humiliating ceremonies” at handovers of Israeli captives in Gaza.
 
Border police salute as a convoy carrying the remains of four people arrives at the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. Hamas handed over the bodies in Gaza, three of which Israel has identified as hostages, and said the other was of an unknown person. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
Israel identifies remains of child hostages but says another body from Hamas was not their mother
The Israeli military says the remains of two child hostages have been identified but another body released by Hamas was not the boys’ mother.
 
Israeli captives, from left to the right, Ohad Ben Ami, Eli Sharabi and Or Levy, who have been held hostage by Hamas in Gaza since October 7, 2023, are escorted by Hamas fighters before being handed over to the Red Cross in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Saturday Feb. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Hamas releases 3 frail-looking Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners under Gaza ceasefire
Hamas-led militants have released three gaunt, frail-looking Israeli hostages and Israel has freed 183 Palestinian prisoners in the fifth exchange of a ceasefire that has paused the war in Gaza.
 
Laundry hangs on a destroyed building caused by the Israeli air and ground offensive in Jabaliya, Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
‘I won’t leave. Put that in your brain.’ Palestinians reject Trump’s call to expel them from Gaza
Stunned Palestinians rejected President Donald Trump’s proposal to expel them from the Gaza Strip so that the U.S. could take over the territory and rebuild it for others.
 
Israeli captive Arbel Yehoud, 29, who has been held hostage by Hamas in Gaza since October 7, 2023, is escorted by Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters as she is handed over to the Red Cross in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Thursday Jan. 30, 2025.(AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Israelis and Palestinians rejoice after more hostages and prisoners are freed
Hamas-led militants freed eight more hostages from the Gaza Strip and another 110 Palestinian prisoners were released by Israel as part of a ceasefire that began earlier this month.
 
Displaced Palestinians return to their homes in the northern Gaza Strip, following Israel's decision to allow thousands of them to go back for the first time since the early weeks of the 15-month war with Hamas, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Palestinians celebrate their return to northern Gaza after 15 months of war
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have streamed into heavily destroyed northern Gaza in their first chance to return since the early weeks of the 15-month war with Hamas.
 
Displaced Palestinians gather with their belongings near a roadblock on the al Rashid Street, as they wait to return to their homes in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025, days after the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas came into effect. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Qatar says a deal is reached to release an Israeli hostage and allow Palestinians into northern Gaza
Qatar says an agreement has been reached to release an Israeli civilian hostage and allow Palestinians to return to northern Gaza. The deal eases the first major crisis of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
 
An aerial photograph taken by a drone shows the destruction caused by the Israeli air and ground offensive, in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Friday, Jan. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
With the ceasefire in Gaza comes a gruesome challenge: Counting and collecting the dead
The corpses keep coming every day, sometimes dozens at a time brought to morgues in the Palestinian enclave, after being pried from under 15 months of rubble and pulled from battle zones long too dangerous for search-and-rescue teams to reach.
 
Israeli female soldier hostages wave and react at a Palestinian crowd before being handed over to the Red Cross in Gaza City, Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Abed Hajjar)
Hamas frees 4 female Israeli soldiers in exchange for 200 Palestinian prisoners as ceasefire holds
Four female Israeli soldiers who were taken in the attack that sparked the war in Gaza have returned to Israel after Hamas militants paraded them before a crowd of thousands and handed them over to the Red Cross.
 
Displaced Palestinians leave parts of Khan Younis as they go back to their homes in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Palestinians trek across rubble to return to their homes as Gaza ceasefire takes hold
Even before the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas was fully in place, Palestinians in the war-battered Gaza Strip began to return to the remains of the homes they had evacuated during the 15-month war.
 
Khalida Jarrar, 62, a leading member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, is greeted after disembarking from a bus following her release from an Israeli prison, in the West Bank city of Beitunia, early Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
As ceasefire takes hold, Hamas returns 3 Israeli hostages and Israel frees 90 Palestinian prisoners
Dozens of Palestinian prisoners have been freed by Israel after three hostages left Hamas captivity in an exchange that took place after 15 months of collective grief and anxiety.
 
This photo provided by the Israeli Government Press Office, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, convened his security Cabinet to vote on a ceasefire deal after confirming an agreement had been reached that would pause the 15-month war with Hamas in Gaza, in Jerusalem, Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. (Koby Gideon/Israeli Government Press Office via AP)
Israel’s Cabinet approves a deal for a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of dozens of hostages
Israel’s Cabinet has approved a deal for a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of dozens of hostages that will pause the 15-month war with Hamas for six weeks.
 
An Israeli soldier sits on a tank at the border with Gaza in southern Israel on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
Netanyahu says deal to release hostages held in Gaza has been reached after last minute snags
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says a deal to return hostages held in the Gaza Strip has been reached.
 
Yifat Zailer, whose cousin Shiri Bibas and Bibas' husband and sons were taken hostage by Hamas militants, weeps during an interview at her home in Herziliyya, Israel, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
Gaza truce gives Israelis and Palestinians hope but may not end their suffering
The ceasefire announced between Israel and Hamas gives hope to families of hostages and war-weary Palestinians — but their nightmare is far from over.
 
A Palestinian man carries a wounded girl, following an Israeli bombardment on the Gaza Strip, as they arrive at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir al-Balah, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Hamas OKs draft agreement of a Gaza ceasefire and the release of some hostages, officials say
Officials say Hamas has accepted a draft agreement for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and the release of dozens of hostages.
 
Gali, whose son, Sgt. Yahav Maayan, was killed in combat in the Gaza Strip, reacts next to his grave during his funeral at a military cemetery in Modiin, Israel, Sunday, Jan. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
Biden and Netanyahu discuss the latest in the effort to reach an Israel-Hamas war ceasefire
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Joe Biden have spoken in a phone call on the latest efforts to reach a ceasefire and hostage release in the Israel-Hamas war.
 
The body of Dima Eid, 5, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike, is brought to Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir Al-Balah, Gaza, Saturday, Jan. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Israel’s Netanyahu sends Mossad director to Gaza ceasefire talks in Qatar in sign of progress
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is sending the director of the Mossad foreign intelligence agency to ceasefire negotiations in Qatar in a sign of progress in talks on the war in Gaza.
 
Fatma Abu Awad and her daughter Malak pray in a graveyard where their relatives who were killed by an Israeli airstrike are buried, in Khan Younis, Gaza, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
More than 46,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war, officials say
Gaza’s Health Ministry says the death toll from the Israel-Hamas war has climbed above 46,000. The ministry updated its toll from the ongoing 15-month conflict on Thursday. It says 46,006 Palestinians have been killed and 109,378 wounded.
 
Palestinians mourn their relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Israel helps former soldier leave Brazil over investigation into alleged war crimes in Gaza
Israel has helped a former soldier leave Brazil after legal action was initiated against him by a group accusing Israelis of war crimes in the Gaza Strip.
 
A man reacts while carrying a wounded girl to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital following Israeli army airstrikes in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Saturday Jan. 4, 2025.(AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Israeli airstrikes in Gaza kill at least 21, hospital workers say, as talks underway
Hospital staff in Gaza say the latest Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 21 people including at least two children. Gaza’s Health Ministry said Saturday at least 59 people had been killed by strikes in the past 24 hours.
 
Children watch as the bodies of victims from overnight Israeli army strikes at multiple locations in the central Gaza Strip are laid together for funeral prayers, at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, Friday, Jan. 3, 2025. According to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, 30 people, including 10 women and 7 children, were killed in several attacks overnight in central Gaza. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Israeli strikes kill at least 42 in Gaza as ceasefire talks set to resume in Qatar
Hospital and emergency response workers say Israeli strikes have killed at least 42 people in Gaza. Children were among the dead in the strikes that occurred overnight and into Friday. A journalist was among the dead.
 
A destroyed part of Gaza City as seen from southern Israel, Thursday Jan. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov))
Israeli airstrike hits a Gaza humanitarian zone as Netanyahu OKs a delegation to talks in Qatar
Israeli airstrikes across Gaza have killed at least 50 people, including several children, as they struck Hamas security officers and an Israeli-declared humanitarian zone.
 
A man reacts in grief as the body of 8-year-old Adam Farajallah is brought to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital following an airstrike on a house in the Bureij refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip town of Deir al-Balah Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Israeli strikes kill 12 in Gaza, including children, as war grinds into the new year
Palestinian medics say Israeli strikes have killed at least 12 people in Gaza, mostly women and children. The nearly 15-month war is grinding on into the new year. One man carrying the body of a child shouted: “Are you celebrating? Enjoy as we die.
 
Balloon sellers wait for customers near Al-Hamidiyeh Souq on New Years Eve, in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
A new year dawns on a Middle East torn by conflict and change
The streets were buzzing with excitement in Damascus as Syrians welcomed in a new year that seemed to many to bring a promise of a brighter future after the unexpected fall of Bashar Assad’s government weeks earlier.
 
Alaa Hamami gazes into a fragment of a broken mirror as she poses for a portrait beside her deteriorating cosmetics in her tent at a camp for displaced Palestinians in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Dec. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
In Gaza’s crowded tent camps, women wrestle with a life stripped of privacy
For Gaza’s women, the hardships of life in the territory’s sprawling tent camps are compounded by the daily humiliation of never having privacy.
 
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