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People take part in a protest demanding the immediate release of hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, April 5,2025. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
Israeli troops deploy to a new security corridor across southern Gaza
Israel says troops have deployed to a newly established security corridor across southern Gaza. Pressure on the Hamas militant group has increased again, weeks into the renewed war.
 
Yamama Jundia, 13, injured in an Israeli airstrike, grieves alongside others over the bodies of their relatives, who were killed in the same strike, at the Baptist Hospital in Gaza City on Thursday, April 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Israeli strike on a school in Gaza kills at least 27 people, Palestinian health officials say
Gaza’s Health Ministry says an Israeli airstrike has killed at least 27 Palestinians sheltering at a school in northern Gaza and wounded 70 more.
 
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.
 
Displaced Palestinians, traveling in vehicles, wait to cross through a security checkpoint at the Netzarim corridor as they make their way from central Gaza to the northern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Hamas says it will free 6 living hostages and hand over 4 bodies, accelerating Gaza releases
A senior Hamas leader says the militant group will release six living Israeli hostages on Saturday and the bodies of four others on Thursday.
 
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands during a news conference at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, Israel, Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg,Pool)
Israel’s Netanyahu signals he’s moving ahead with Trump’s idea to transfer Palestinians from Gaza
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has signaled that he’s moving ahead with U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposal to transfer the Palestinian population out of Gaza.
 
Booksellers Mahmoud, left, and Ahmad Muna appear in court after their arrest during an Israeli police raid of their long-established Palestinian-owned Educational Bookshop in east Jerusalem, Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
Israeli police raid Palestinian bookshop in east Jerusalem and seize books they say incite violence
Israeli police have raided a long-established Palestinian-owned bookstore in east Jerusalem, detaining the owners and confiscating books about the decades-long conflict. The police claimed the books incited violence.
 
Chief of the General Staff Lieutenant-General Herzi Halevi places a wreath during a memorial ceremony marking the Hebrew calendar anniversary of the Hamas attack on October 7 last year, at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, Israel Sunday Oct. 27, 2024. (Gil Cohen-Magen/Pool Photo via AP, File)
Who in Israel has resigned over the Oct. 7 security breakdown, and who hasn’t?
Israel’s top general on Tuesday became the highest-ranking official to resign over Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attack, the worst security failure in the country’s history.
 
Buffalo plays Bowling Green on 7-game road slide
Buffalo enters a matchup against Bowling Green as losers of seven straight road games. Tuesday’s meeting is the first this season between the two squads.
 
East Carolina visits Charlotte after Hagemann’s 21-point performance
East Carolina faces the Charlotte 49ers after Devin Hagemann scored 21 points in the Pirates’ 75-64 victory against the Tulane Green Wave. Wednesday’s matchup is the first this season for the two squads.
 
Gael Monfils of France plays a forehand return to Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard of France during their first round match at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Asanka Brendon Ratnayake)
Monfils outduels fellow Frenchman in an Australian Open 1st-round match for the ages
The 38-year-old Gael Monfils has held off fellow Frenchman Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard in five sets to advance to the second round of the Australian Open.
 
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.
 
Palestinians mourn over the bodies of civil defense workers victims of an Israeli army strike in the Nuseirat camp, at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Sunday Dec.16, 2024. Four cicivil defence workers were killed according to Palestinian civil defense and health ministry.(AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Israel will close its Ireland embassy over Gaza tensions as Palestinian death toll nears 45,000
Israel says it will close its embassy in Ireland as relations deteriorate over the war in Gaza, where Palestinian medical officials say new Israeli airstrikes have killed over 46 people including children.
 
From left, Elena Troufanov, Louis Har, Sharon Lifschitz, and Gaya Kalderon former Israeli hostages and relatives of some still being held by Hamas hold photos at the end of a press conference in Rome, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Hostages freed from Gaza meet with Pope Francis and press campaign to bring remaining captives home
A delegation of former hostages held by Hamas in Gaza and their relatives have met with Pope Francis.
 
A wounded girl lies in a hospital bed in the southern village of Saksakieh, Lebanon, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
Israel bombards Hezbollah, killing a top commander, while families flee southern Lebanon
Israel has killed a top Hezbollah commander as part of a two-day bombing campaign that has left more than 560 people dead and prompted thousands in southern Lebanon to seek refuge from the widening conflict.
 
Israeli security and rescue forces work at the site hit by a rocket fired from Lebanon, in Kiryat Bialik, northern Israel, on Sunday, Sept. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Gil Nechushtan)
Hezbollah hits back with rockets as it declares an ‘open-ended battle’ with Israel
Hezbollah has launched more than 100 rockets across a wider and deeper area of northern Israel and Hezbollah’s deputy leader Naim Kassem said Sunday that his group is now in an open-ended battle with Israel.
 
A police officer inspects the area around a fire after the military said it fired interceptors at a missile launched from Yemen that landed in central Israel on Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
A missile fired by Yemen’s rebels lands in Israel and triggers sirens at international airport
A missile fired by Yemen’s Iran-backed rebels has landed in an open area in central Israel and triggered air raid sirens at its international airport. It’s the latest reverberation from the nearly yearlong war in Gaza.
 
This undated photo released by the Israel Defense Forces shows the Gaza tunnel where it says six Israeli hostages were recently killed by Hamas militants. (Israeli Army via AP)
Israel releases video of a Gaza tunnel where it says Hamas militants killed 6 hostages
The Israeli military has released video footage of a Gaza tunnel where it says six hostages were recently killed by Hamas. The video released Tuesday shows a low, narrow passageway deep underground that had no bathroom and poor ventilation.
 
Israeli police stand guard near the site of a deadly shooting attack where Israeli officials say three people were shot and killed at the Allenby Bridge Crossing between the West Bank and Jordan, Sunday, Sept. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
Shooting attack at the West Bank-Jordan border crossing kills 3 Israelis
Israeli officials say three Israelis were fatally shot at the border crossing between the West Bank and Jordan.
 
Palestinians inspect the damage at a tent area in the courtyard of Al Aqsa Martyrs hospital, hit by an Israeli bombardment on Deir al-Balah, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
US and allies prepare to defend Israel as Netanyahu says it’s already in ‘multi-front war’ with Iran
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel is already in a “multi-front war” with Iran and its proxies, while the United States and allies prepare to defend Israel from an expected counterstrike and prevent an even more destructive regional conflict.
 
Right-wing Israelis, one holding a Palestinian scarf, at a protest outside of the initial hearing in military court for nine Israeli soldiers over what a defense lawyer said were allegations of sexual abuse of a Palestinian at a shadowy facility where Israel has held prisoners from Gaza during the war, in Beit Lid military base, Tuesday, July 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
Probe of soldiers over alleged sexual abuse fuels tension between Israeli military and hard-liners
An Israeli military court is holding a hearing for nine soldiers detained for questioning over alleged abuse of a Palestinian at a shadowy facility where Israel has held prisoners from Gaza during the war.