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Mohammed Shula displays a picture on his cellphone of himself, centre, with his sons Bilal and Yazan.

Pregnant woman shot dead as Israel shifts operations to potential ‘new front’ for Iran

The call came in the middle of the night. Sondos Shalabi was whispering. There was panic in her voice. “Help please,” she whispered to her father-in-law. “You have to save us.”

  • Isabel Debre

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Trump hosts Jordan’s King Abdullah II in the Oval Office at the White House.

How Jordan’s king managed an awkward moment with Trump

The Middle Eastern leader did everything in his power to avoid being put on the spot during his meeting with the US president.

  • Michael Birnbaum and Dan Diamond
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Trump threatens to ‘let hell break out’ after Hamas halts hostage release

The US president has given Hamas a new deadline to release all remaining hostages at once, contrary to the ceasefire deal done with US help and which Hamas claims Israel violated.

  • James Mackenzie, Emily Rose and Alexander Cornwell
Israeli Or Levy, held hostage by Hamas since October 7, 2023, before his release to the Red Cross.

Thai hostages released by Hamas return to Bangkok after being held for over a year

Hamas has paraded three Israeli hostages before a crowd of hundreds in the Gaza Strip ahead of their release as part of the ceasefire deal.

  • Wafaa Shurafa
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‘I burst into tears’: Emotions high as World Vision worker freed in Gaza ceasefire exchange

Hamas freed three male hostages as Israel released 183 Palestinian prisoners in the fourth exchange.

  • Roy Ward, Mohammad Jahjouh and Imad Isseid
Kfir Bibas, at nine months, was the youngest hostage taken by Hamas on October 7, 2023.

Fears for Israel’s youngest hostage as Hamas releases father

The Bibas family became a potent symbol of Israel’s hostage crisis after video showed Palestinian militants leading away a distraught mother clutching her two small red-haired sons.

  • Erika Solomon
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Arbel Yehoud who had been held hostage since October 7, 2023, is escorted by Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters to be handed over to the Red Cross in Khan Younis, Gaza.

Chaotic scenes as Hamas releases eight more hostages following Gaza truce

The latest release was delayed when crowds surrounded the hostages as they made their way to waiting Red Cross vehicles.

An unending stream of people marched up the coast of Gaza on January 27, carrying their belongings in plastic bags and repurposed flour sacks through the central city of Nuseirat after Israel reopened access to the territory’s north.

Hamas list shows eight hostages to be freed during ceasefire are dead

The news came as Israel began allowing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to return to the heavily destroyed northern Gaza Strip.

  • Samy Magdy
Displaced Palestinians wait near a roadblock after being stopped from returning to northern Gaza.

‘We’re worthless’: Israel blocks Palestinians going home to northern Gaza, kills 22 in Lebanon

Israeli forces opened fire on protesters demanding their planned withdrawal from Lebanon, while in Gaza, a dispute over a hostage appears settled.

  • Wafaa Shurafa, Samy Magdy and Joseph Krauss
Displaced Palestinians returning to a destroyed Rafah in the Gaza Strip, a day after the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas came into effect.

Here’s why Trump’s ‘clean out Gaza’ idea is rejected

The US president said resettling most of the strip’s population of 2.3 million in Jordan or Egypt could be “temporary or long term”. He’s already heard a firm “no”.

  • Joseph Krauss

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