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DUBAI - Palestinian group Hamas said on Wednesday an exchange of Palestinian prisoners for the bodies of Israeli hostages would take place through "a new mechanism" that guaranteed Israel's ...

Hamas’s armed wing said on Wednesday that it would hand over the bodies of four Israeli hostages “tonight” as part of the Gaza ceasefire deal. “Within the framework of the deal, the ...

As the first phase of the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel comes to an end, so, too, might the weekly hostage “auctions” that have been among its most defining optics. OMER SHEM TOV appears ...

FRANKFURT, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Four Hamas members suspected of plotting attacks on Jewish institutions in Europe went on trial in Berlin on Tuesday, in what prosecutors described as the first court ...

For months, Hamas leaders have defended the militant group’s decision to launch the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel, despite the devastating Israeli offensive that followed, killing tens of ...

National security adviser Mike Waltz dismissed Hamas bungling the return of its hostages’ remains as being a knock against President Donald Trump. Hamas is five weeks into its ceasefire deal ...

Mousa Abu Marzouk, the head of Hamas’s foreign relations office, said he would not have supported such an attack on Israel had he known of the devastation it would wreak on Gaza. By Adam Rasgon ...

Hamas handed over 3 more Israeli hostages to the Red Cross in the last exchange Hamas handed over 3 more Israeli hostages to the Red Cross in the last exchange. The three Israeli hostages are Omer ...

Hamas released six more hostages in exchange for 600 Palestinian prisoners on Saturday in what is to be the last exchange in the first phase of the ceasefire agreement. The six included three ...