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Hamas has agreed to release 33 Israeli hostages as part of a cease-fire agreement with Israel that has brought a pause to ...

Hostages Arbel Yehud and Gadi Moses were expected to be released later Thursday morning along with five Thai nationals. Yehud ...

Among those to be freed is Arbel Yehoud, whose release was at the center of a dispute that threatened to unravel the fragile ...

The release planned for Thursday would be the third so far as Israel and Hamas observe a six-week truce, part of a multiphase agreement that mediators hope will end the war in Gaza.

The expected release will keep up the momentum of the fragile ceasefire​ between Israel and the militant Hamas group that ...

Hamas released eight hostages, including three Israelis and five Thais, as part of a hostage-for-prisoner exchange.

The cease-fire has held despite a dispute earlier this week over the sequence in which the hostages were released.

Eight of the remaining hostages set to be released by Hamas in the first phase of a ceasefire agreement with Israel are dead, ...

Protesters at a rally in Tel Aviv, Israel, on January 4, 2025, hold photos of hostages held in the Gaza Strip and 100 light sticks to symbolize the missing 100 held by Hamas. Hamas has ...

The hostages were released in a staged handover that saw them surrounded by Hamas gunmen and crowds of civilians.

Under the deal, approved by Israel’s government, 33 Israeli hostages will be exchanged for more than 730 Palestinian ...