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 A man sells bread under the ruin of his bakery destroyed by the Israeli air and ground offensive in Jabaliya, Gaza Strip.

Hamas signals it will release more hostages this weekend

The statement came amid rising tensions between Hamas and Israel pointed to rising risks about the future of the precarious truce between the adversaries.

  • Lara Jakes and Aaron Boxerman

This Month

Israeli army troops are seen on the Israeli-Gaza border during a ground operation in the Gaza Strip. in November.

Israel calls up reservists as fears for fragile Gaza ceasefire rise

Concern that the truce will collapse is growing as fury mounts in the Arab world over President Donald Trump’s plan for the United States to take over Gaza.

  • James Mackenzie, Jana Choukeir and Maha El Dahan
A billboard in downtown Tel Aviv.

Trump’s Gaza plan is a crazy answer to a valid question

I can say with confidence that Donald Trump’s proposal is the single most idiotic and dangerous Middle East “peace” initiative ever put out by an American president.

  • Thomas Friedman
Israeli captive, Eli Sharabi, who has been held hostage by Hamas in Gaza since October 7, 2023, stands on a stage escorted by Hamas fighters before being handed over to the Red Cross.

Trump may be wrong about many things, but he’s right about Hamas

Arab states such as Qatar and Egypt depend on US protection even as they harbour Hamas leaders or failed to stop the group from arming itself to the teeth.

  • Bret Stephens
An Israeli soldier driving a tank near the Israeli-Gaza border.

Netanyahu threatens to restart war if hostages not returned

“If Hamas does not return our hostages by Saturday noon – the ceasefire will end,” the Israeli leader said, adding he’s ordered the military to prepare.

  • Nidal al-Mughrabi and Alexander Cornwell
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James Packer before the Israel prime minister’s address to Congress last year.

Packer moves in with billionaire Mar-a-Lago residents

The Australian businessman has picked up a two-year lease, putting him ever closer to the US president.

  • Mark Di Stefano
Israeli captive Eli Sharabi is escorted by Hamas fighters on the weekend.

Trump says US losing patience with Gaza ceasefire deal

The president was reacting to images of the three latest released hostages who he said looked like “Holocaust survivors”, bringing uncertainty to the deal.

  • Joey Roulette and Jeff Mason
Trump’s announcement also took Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu by surprise.

There is method to Trump’s Gaza takeover madness

Trump’s ‘Gaza plan’ is almost certainly designed to scare Palestinians and third parties to the negotiation table with creative solutions.

  • Bren Carlill

How dare Trump state the obvious about Gaza

Everyone says the Gazans must live in the rubble and stay under the control of Hamas. No one asks why the Gazans should be suspended in the aspic of their leaders’ failure and fanaticism.

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  • Dominic Green
Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump at their press conference.

Reality will bite Trump’s big dreams in Gaza

The US president’s vision of the US taking over Gaza and turning it into a peaceful, prosperous property development project is a fantasy.

  • Jennifer Hewett
Benjamin Netanyahu will soon need to decide whether he is willing to see the ceasefire through to completion, but he must reckon with the mercurial Donald Trump.

The ‘Bibi sandwich’: Will Netanyahu really end the war in Gaza?

The Israeli leader wants to destroy Hamas and get all the Israeli hostage back. He’ll have to prioritise one over the other in his meeting with Donald Trump this week.

  • Neri Zilber

January

A tent camp for displaced Palestinians is set up amid destroyed buildings in Shijaiyah neighbourhood, Gaza City, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025.

Labor pro-Israel group backs free trade pact with Netanyahu

Local Palestinians slam opposition plan for deeper economic ties with Israel, saying it endorses genocide and apartheid.

  • Andrew Tillett
Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu from a meeting in Jerusalem in 2017.

Trump invites Netanyahu to the White House

The Israeli prime minister would be the first foreign leader to visit Washington in Donald Trump’s second term after receiving an invitation for February 4.

  • Wafaa Shurafa and Melanie Lidman
Hamas militants hand over Doron Steinbrecher, one of the Israeli hostages, as part of a prisoner-hostage swap with Israel.

Is Hamas back?

The sight of militants on the streets of Gaza since the ceasefire raises the possibility that they may again run the enclave.

  • Heba Saleh and Neri Zilber
Lieutenant-General Herzi Halevi, wearing a red beret, at a military ceremony in October.

Israel’s top general resigns over October 7 failures

Lieutenant-General Herzi Halevi is the most senior Israeli figure to resign over the security and intelligence breakdown on October 7, 2023.

  • Melanie Lidman and Aref Tufaha
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Fighters from the Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, control the crowd as Red Cross vehicles manoeuvre to collect Israeli hostages to be released.

Behind Israelis’ joy, a painful truth: Hamas still runs Gaza

Footage of Hamas fighters escorting freed Israeli hostages highlights the high price Jerusalem paid to secure their freedom.

  • Andrew Tillett
Romi Gonen, right, and her mother Merav hold each other near kibbutz Reim, southern Israel after Romi was released from captivity by Hamas militants.

Skies above Gaza, Israel silent as ceasefire takes hold

In Israel, the joy of seeing freed hostages reunited with their families was tempered by questions over the fate of the nearly 100 others abducted by Hamas.

  • Wafaa Shurafa, Samy Magdy, Melanie Lidman and Sam Mednick

Cheers and weeping as Israelis watch Gaza hostages return

Romi Gonen, Doron Steinbrecher and Emily Damari embraced their mothers after 471 days, as friends and family breathed a sigh of relief.

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  • Miro Mamman and Avi Ohayon

Gaza ceasefire begins after nearly three-hour delay over hostage list

A long-awaited ceasefire in Gaza began after a three-hour delay as Hamas named the three female hostages it plans to free later on Sunday.

  • Wafaa Shurafa, Samy Magdy and Tia Goldberg
Demonstrators in Tel Aviv call for the release of all hostages held captive by Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

Israel delays Gaza ceasefire over hostage list

Benjamin Netanyahu said the truce would not go ahead until militant group Hamas provided the names of hostages to be released.

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  • Maayan Lubell and Nidal al-Mughrabi

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