Both the Trump and Biden administrations have publicly claimed credit for pushing the agreement over the line.

Gaza’s Health Ministry said Israeli tank fire killed two Palestinians near the southern border town of Rafah, days after a ceasefire in the war-battered territory took hold. The ministry said on Thursday that Israeli shelling hit the Tel al-Sultan district west of Rafah, killing two brothers near their home.

Smotrich said he has received assurances that Israel will resume the war after the first phase, during which 33 hostages held in Gaza are to return home and hundreds of Palestinian prisoners are to be freed. The second phase, which must still be negotiated, is to work out an end to the war and return of all remaining hostages.

IDF set to pull back from Lebanon Sunday and Gaza's Netzarim Saturday, testing Netanyahu's resolve amid Hamas talks and coalition pressures.

Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah was taken out by an Israeli airstrike in late September, while Hamas’ leader, Yahya Sinwar, the architect of the Oct. 7 attack, was killed by the Israeli military in Rafah in mid-October. Much of the ...

The reopening of the Rafah crossing has been hailed by some people as a beacon of hope for a future that remains uncertain yet full of possibilities. For Palestinians, it symbolizes the potential for lasting peace and a chance to rebuild their shattered lives.

Fifteen months of attacks by Iran’s axis of resistance on Israel have proved to be a staggering strategic misjudgement that is reshaping the Middle East. Iran’s axis was broken at great cost to

Israeli government approves ceasefire agreement. Ceasefire to begin in Gaza Sunday morning, hostages to be released in the afternoon.

Nael Barghouti, 67, has spent 44 years incarcerated by Israel, more than any other Palestinian. Jailed in 1978 for killing an Israeli bus driver, he was freed in 2011 in a previous swap but re-arrested three years later and held ever since.

Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah ... was killed by the Israeli military in Rafah in mid-October. Much of the conventional wisdom on counterterrorism, however, suggests that killing ...

So, did Israel “win” the war that began after October 7? In the short term, it’s hard to say no. Even if Hamas has not been eliminated, Israel has been able to inflict far more damage on its enemies in both Gaza and the wider region, and ended the fighting with far fewer concessions, than many would have thought possible when the conflict began.

Hundreds of Jenin residents left their homes on Thursday, prompted by messages from drones fitted with loudspeakers, witnesses said, as the military demolished a number of houses on the third day of a major operation in the West Bank city.