• Israel's Netanyahu says a ceasefire deal with Hamas is still not reached

    Israel's Netanyahu says a ceasefire deal with Hamas is still not reached

    Jan 15, 2025 06:10 PM EDT

    JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office says a ceasefire deal with Hamas has still not been reached. In a statement, Netanyahu’s office said that final details were still unresolved, but that it hoped “details will be finalized tonight.” That comes after multiple mediators had said Israel and ...

  • WATCH: White House holds news briefing as Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal announced

    WATCH: White House holds news briefing as Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal announced

    Jan 15, 2025 05:44 PM EDT

    President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that a Gaza ceasefire deal "has been reached" between Israel and Hamas. Watch White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre's briefing in the player above. "It's a very good afternoon because at long last, I can announce a cease fire," Biden said in ...

  • WATCH: Biden announces Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal

    WATCH: Biden announces Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal

    Jan 15, 2025 05:35 PM EDT

    ... released by Hamas showing surviving hostages in distress, combined with news that a growing number of abducted Israelis have died, put added pressure on the Israeli leader. Hamas, a militant group that does not accept Israel’s existence, has come under overwhelming pressure from Israeli military operations, including the invasion ...

  • Officials tout a Gaza ceasefire deal and plan to free hostages. Israel says details still in flux

    Officials tout a Gaza ceasefire deal and plan to free hostages. Israel says details still in flux

    Jan 15, 2025 05:17 PM EDT

    ... released by Hamas showing surviving hostages in distress, combined with news that a growing number of abducted Israelis have died, put added pressure on the Israeli leader. Hamas, a militant group that does not accept Israel’s existence, has come under overwhelming pressure from Israeli military operations, including the invasion ...

  • What to know as an Israel-Hamas ceasefire appears closer than ever

    What to know as an Israel-Hamas ceasefire appears closer than ever

    Jan 15, 2025 04:27 PM EDT

    ... power in Gaza in 2007, confining the Western-backed Palestinian Authority’s limited self-rule to parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The U.S. has called for a revitalized Palestinian Authority to govern both the West Bank and Gaza ahead of eventual statehood, which the Israeli government opposes.

  • What's in the latest Gaza ceasefire proposal between Israel and Hamas

    What's in the latest Gaza ceasefire proposal between Israel and Hamas

    Jan 14, 2025 11:25 PM EDT

    Nick Schifrin: There's a phase two where you would see another round of Israeli hostages released, another round of Palestinian detainees released, and a full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. That would begin phase three, which is really the long-term phase. You would get the final Israeli hostages left ...

  • Official says Hamas has accepted a draft agreement for a Gaza ceasefire, while Israel says details are being finalized

    Official says Hamas has accepted a draft agreement for a Gaza ceasefire, while Israel says details are being finalized

    Jan 14, 2025 02:58 PM EDT

    ... blamed Israel for repeated setbacks in the negotiations, saying that on more than one occasion, it had accepted a proposal from mediators only to see Israel reject it or launch a new military operation. Israel and its close ally the United States have blamed setbacks on Hamas.Dozens of protesters ...

  • Israel sending Mossad director to Qatar for Gaza ceasefire talks in sign of progress

    Israel sending Mossad director to Qatar for Gaza ceasefire talks in sign of progress

    Jan 11, 2025 07:01 PM EDT

    ... which hostages would be released in the first part of a phased ceasefire deal, which Palestinian prisoners would be released and the extent of any Israeli troop withdrawal from population centers in Gaza. Hamas and other groups killed some 1,200 people and took about 250 hostages into Gaza in ...

  • More than 46,000 Palestinians killed in Israel-Hamas war, Gaza health officials say

    More than 46,000 Palestinians killed in Israel-Hamas war, Gaza health officials say

    Jan 09, 2025 06:43 PM EDT

    ... people in airstrikes earlier this week. In Israel, family members of hostages who were killed in captivity echoed the calls for a ceasefire, imploring the Israeli government and world leaders to reach a deal, a day after Israeli soldiers recovered the body of 53-year-old hostage Yosef AlZayadni in ...

  • Troops recover body of hostage from Gaza tunnel, Israel’s military says

    Troops recover body of hostage from Gaza tunnel, Israel’s military says

    Jan 08, 2025 06:35 PM EDT

    ... have Israeli citizenship. The traditionally nomadic community is particularly impoverished in Israel and has suffered from neglect and marginalization. Palestinians make up some 20% of Israel’s 10 million population, and millions more live in Gaza and under Israeli military occupation in the West Bank. Eight members of Israel’s ...