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 ...

Early Sunday, Israel announced that it would continue to delay the release of 620 Palestinian prisoners whom it had pledged to free ... further hostages “has been assured,” and Hamas commits ...

On Saturday morning, hundreds of people gathered in a rainy Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip as Hamas prepared to release the hostages. More than 600 Palestinians jailed in Israel will be freed in ...

JERUSALEM — Hamas freed six hostages from Gaza on Saturday, the last living Israeli captives slated for release under the first phase of a fragile ceasefire accord, in exchange for hundreds of ...

Israel said its tests determined that the hostages had been killed by their captors. Hamas has said they were ... and called for a deal to free all still held. A Palestinian woman who lost 10 ...

Hamas on Friday announced the names of the latest Israeli hostages due to be released — as outrage mounted over the terror group admitting it hadn’t released dead ...