C AIRO (AP) — A top Hamas official says the militant group will free six living Israeli hostages on Saturday and return the bodies of four others on Thursday, a surprise acceleration in releases ...

Hamas has warned in a new video that Israeli strikes will kill additional hostages as the group's military wing reported ...

Hamas is ready to release all remaining 59 hostages in Gaza in exchange for a permanent cease-fire with Israel, Palestinian ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Hamas is set to free six more Israeli hostages Saturday from the Gaza Strip, but the exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners is shadowed by heightened tension between the ...

Hamas is prepared to release all of the remaining hostages at once in exchange for a permanent ceasefire, a senior Palestinian official familiar with the ongoing truce talks told The Times of ...

Edan Alexander, who grew up in New Jersey, was doing voluntary service with Israel’s military when he was taken hostage Oct.

"Let me be clear: Nothing will stop us from fighting to free our hostages who have been held in brutal Hamas captivity for 527 days." Fox News' Trey Yingst, Louis Casiano, Landon Mion and The ...

Hamas is “studying” an Israeli proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza that would see 10 hostages released in exchange for hundreds ...

Hamas took more than 240 people in Israel hostage during the Oct. 7 massacre and more than 40 have died in captivity. Calls for a ceasefire grew more urgent in September when Israel determined the ...

Officials met Hamas three times, breaking with a policy against contacting a group the U.S. considers a terrorist organization. But Israeli opposition and shifting positions doomed the effort.

“The more Hamas persists in its refusal to free hostages, the more territory it will lose,” Mr. Katz said, adding that areas captured by Israel would be held indefinitely. Mediators were still ...