Israel-Hamas War

The wave of Israeli strikes that killed hundreds of Palestinians across the Gaza Strip early Tuesday was the culmination of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s efforts to get out of the ceasefire with Hamas that he agreed to in January. Since the start of the war, Netanyahu has faced dueling, possibly incompatible pressures. Families of the hostages want him to cut...

Israel’s military on Tuesday launched the deadliest strikes on the Gaza Strip since the agreement of its ceasefire with Hamas, killing hundreds of people and shattering the fragile truce.

Mahmoud Khalil was taken into custody by immigration authorities last weekend, prompting outrage.

Hamas says it has accepted a proposal from mediators to release one living American-Israeli hostage and the bodies of four dual-nationals, hostages who had died in captivity. The militant group did not immediately on Friday specify when the release of soldier Edan Alexander and the four bodies would occur, or what it expected to receive in return. Israeli Prime Minister...

Nearly 100 protesters were arrested Thursday following a sit-in at Trump Tower in Manhattan to demand the release of Palestinian activist, Mahmoud Khalil.

Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist who helped lead student protests at Columbia University, faces deportation after being arrested over the weekend by federal immigration officials.

Israel has cut off the electricity supply to Gaza. The move has affected a desalination plant producing drinking water for part of the arid territory.

The arrest appeared to be among the first known actions under Trump’s pledge to deport international students who joined the protests against Israel’s war in Gaza.

Trump has called for Gaza’s population to be resettled elsewhere permanently so that the United States can take over the territory and develop it.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday issued what he called a “last warning” to Hamas to release all remaining hostages held in Gaza.

Co-creators Solo Avital and Ariel Vromen said they’re not sure how their video made its way to the president and that the video was meant to be satirical.

Hamas handed over four dead hostages to the Red Cross early Thursday in exchange for Israel’s release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, days before the first phase of the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip will end.

Tens of thousands of Israelis have lined highways holding flags, orange balloons and signs saying “forgive us” in an outpouring of grief as the bodies of a mother and her two small sons who were killed in captivity in the Gaza Strip were taken for burial.

Israel says Palestinian prisoners’ release is delayed “until the release of the next hostages is guaranteed.”

Hamas has released the last six living hostages expected under the first phase of its ceasefire with Israel with a week remaining.

Human remains returned by Hamas to Israel on Friday are those of hostage Shiri Bibas, her family said Saturday, two days after the Palestinian militant group returned the wrong body.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed revenge Friday after a body that Hamas released as part of the hostage exchange deal was found to not be that of an Israeli mother of two young boys, as the militants had promised. NBC’s Hala Gorani reports from Tel Aviv.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed revenge Friday for what he described as a “cruel and malicious violation” of the ceasefire agreement after authorities determined that a body released by Hamas was not an Israeli mother of two small boys, as the militant group had promised.

Hamas released the bodies of four Israeli hostages Thursday, parading four black caskets on a stage against a backdrop of propaganda slogans and behind white missiles spattered with red paint bearing the phrase “they were killed by USA bombs.”

Israeli police have reported a series of explosions on three buses in central Israel in what they said appeared to be a militant attack.