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

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that he plans to speak to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and that ...

Israel and Hamas reached a deal to resolve a disagreement over the exchange of a female civilian hostage that had threatened ...

Massive crowds streamed into the most heavily destroyed part on Monday in accordance with a fragile ceasefire.

“Gaza, with its great people and its resilience, will rise again to rebuild what the occupation has destroyed and continue on ...

During a pause in fighting between Israel and Hamas, with fragile hopes for an end to the war, relief is soon weighed down by ...

Bill Deere, director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNWRA), discussed ...

In the ceasefire’s first phase, Israel and Hamas have agreed that 33 Israeli hostages in Gaza will be released in exchange ...

These developments do not bode well for the success of the next phases of the ceasefire, let alone a lasting peace.

Bloodshed over the weekend highlighted the brittleness of the cease-fires in both places. Still, Israel, Hamas and Hezbollah each have reasons to postpone a new escalation, at least for a few weeks.

A female Israeli soldier is released as the next hostage-prisoner exchange gets underway amid the ceasefire in Gaza.