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The returning hostage, IDF soldier Agam Berger, has crossed into Israeli territory and "is currently on her way to an initial reception point in southern Israel," the report reads ...

Long lines of Palestinians -- some kneeling to kiss the soil as they stepped into the northern part of the strip -- were ...

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

Hamas has released Israeli soldier Agam Berger to the Red Cross in Gaza, marking the first of eight hostages set to be freed ...

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

Friedman’s dreamscape for the Middle East makes no sense on any level.  Even former secretary of state Antony Blinken eventually recognized that Israel has “systematically undermined the capacity and ...

• Eight hostages – three Israeli and five Thai – are set to be released from Gaza on Thursday. The three Israelis are Arbel Yehoud, Agam Berger and Gadi Moses, according to the Israeli Prime ...

Many of us who’ve studied this issue, Trump’s directives seem reasonable,” cheers Lisa Selin Davis of the prez’s order to the ...

U.S. Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff visited Gaza on Wednesday, then met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu amid ...

Once the details are received, a team from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) sets off in vehicles marked ...