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  • Israel frees some Gaza workers detained during hospital raids, but prominent chief remains imprisoned

    Israel frees some Gaza workers detained during hospital raids, but prominent chief remains imprisoned

    Oct 15, 2025 05:56 PM EST

    ... year-old mother died, Elias said. “She hadn’t stopped crying since they detained him,” he said. Imprisonment Abu Safiya is currently being held at Israel’s Ofer Prison in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli rights group Physicians for Human Rights–Israel, which visited him in September, said he ...

  • Israel receives remains of 2 more hostages as military says another body was not that of a hostage

    Israel receives remains of 2 more hostages as military says another body was not that of a hostage

    Oct 15, 2025 04:04 PM EST

    ... and a Jewish holiday Tuesday. The timing of the scaled-up deliveries — which are part of the ceasefire deal — had been called into question after Israel said Tuesday that it would cut the number of trucks allowed into Gaza, saying Hamas was too slow to return the hostages' bodies. Abeer ...

  • Freed Israeli hostages face long road to physical and mental recovery

    Freed Israeli hostages face long road to physical and mental recovery

    Oct 14, 2025 10:55 PM EST

    ... right now. The Israeli society are celebrating in the streets right now like it's all over. They gave their bodies and souls to defend Israel. But, today, Israel is forgetting them. Leila Molana-Allen: The defining characteristic of this hostage crisis has been the unity it inspired, every Israeli ...

  • As fragile Gaza ceasefire holds, Israelis lament incomplete return of dead hostages

    As fragile Gaza ceasefire holds, Israelis lament incomplete return of dead hostages

    Oct 14, 2025 04:17 PM EST

    ... shoulder to tear. "For eight months, I wasn't given even a pill for the pain," he said. AP could not independently verify the claims. Israel's Prison Service said it was unaware of such claims. "All inmates are held according to legal procedures, and their rights including access to ...

  • Israeli hostages freed and Palestinian detainees released after 2 years of brutal war

    Israeli hostages freed and Palestinian detainees released after 2 years of brutal war

    Oct 13, 2025 10:55 PM EST

    ... grieve. But even as Israeli strikes have stopped, killings and mayhem have not. Today, Hamas publicly executed dozens of Gazans they accuse of collaboration with Israel. Clashes have also erupted between Hamas fighters and other militias. On Sunday, a prominent Gazan journalist, Saleh Aljafarawi, was killed by Israeli-backed militias ...

  • WATCH: Palestinians celebrate return of prisoners released by Israel

    WATCH: Palestinians celebrate return of prisoners released by Israel

    Oct 13, 2025 07:35 PM EST

    Israel released some 1,900 Palestinian prisoners and detainees on Monday, days after a U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas went into effect. In footage provided by Reuters and the Associated Press, giant crowds in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Khan Younis, Gaza, celebrated the freed prisoners ...

  • WATCH: Freed Israeli hostages reunite with families

    WATCH: Freed Israeli hostages reunite with families

    Oct 13, 2025 07:24 PM EST

    ... Gaza, which began with an Oct. 7, 2023 attack by Hamas that killed 1,200 people. More than 67,000 Palestinians were also killed by Israel's two-year offensive in Gaza, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. In footage provided by the Israeli army and families, hostages embraced loved ...

  • What to know as Israel and Hamas exchange hostages and prisoners and Trump visits the Middle East

    What to know as Israel and Hamas exchange hostages and prisoners and Trump visits the Middle East

    Oct 13, 2025 04:11 PM EST

    ... the first step in the plan proposed by Trump. Competing demands remain on the next steps, casting uncertainty on whether the conflict is indeed over. Israel wants Hamas to disarm, and Hamas wants Israel to pull its troops out of all of Gaza. The future of Gaza’s government, which ...

  • WATCH: Netanyahu tells Israeli parliament he's ‘committed to this peace’ as Trump touts Gaza deal

    WATCH: Netanyahu tells Israeli parliament he's ‘committed to this peace’ as Trump touts Gaza deal

    Oct 13, 2025 03:26 PM EST

    ... criticizing Democratic predecessors and praising a top donor, Miriam Adelson, in the audience. WATCH: Trump celebrates hostage release, calls for Netanyahu pardon in speech to Israeli parliament Netanyahu became the only sitting prime minister in Israeli history to be indicted when he was charged with fraud, breach of trust and ...

  • WATCH: Trump celebrates hostage release, calls for Netanyahu pardon in speech to Israeli parliament

    WATCH: Trump celebrates hostage release, calls for Netanyahu pardon in speech to Israeli parliament

    Oct 13, 2025 02:47 PM EST

    ... After tremendous pain and death and hardship," he said, "now is the time to concentrate on building their people up instead of trying to tear Israel down.” Trump even made a gesture to Iran, where he bombed three nuclear sites during the country's brief war with Israel earlier this ...

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