The world is now all too familiar with the meaning of a hostage – a person seized by force, and held as security, in order to force other parties to …
WARNING: This story contains distressing images Israel ordered residents out of the centre of Gaza’s main southern city, Khan Younis, on Saturday and pounded the length of the Hamas-run enclave, after the …
Hundreds more Palestinians were killed as Israel fought Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip’s biggest cities on Thursday, and almost two million displaced Gazans struggled to find food and refuge. …
WARNING: This story contains graphic details Decades before Yahya Sinwar became the political leader of Hamas in Gaza, Israeli journalist and author Ehud Yaari sat down with him over hummus in …
An Israeli hostage freed by Hamas says she was initially fed well in captivity until conditions worsened and people became hungry. She was kept in a “suffocating” room and slept …
“We have reason to believe that one of those Americans will be released today,” Sullivan told NBC’s Meet the Press. Sullivan declined to give the identity of the hostage who …
The husband of a German-Israeli dual national released from captivity by hostage-takers in the Gaza Strip has expressed his happiness at the return of his wife and their two young …
Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas will start a four-day truce on Friday morning with some Israeli hostages released later that day, mediators in Qatar said. Qatari foreign ministry spokesperson …
For a few hours Wednesday afternoon, Canada appeared to be staring down the barrel of an unwelcome and potentially painful international crisis. News reports were awash in misinformation following an explosion at the Canada-U.S. …
The release of hostages under a temporary truce between Hamas militants and Israel will not happen before Friday, Israel’s national security adviser said on Wednesday night. Israel and Hamas agreed early …