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A small U.S. security firm is hiring about 100 U.S. Special Forces veterans to help guard a Gaza crossing during a truce between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas, according to a company ...

Over six weeks, Hamas is to free 33 Israeli hostages — roughly one third of those held– in exchange for nearly 2,000 ...

Hamas-led militants freed eight hostages on Thursday as part of the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, but the chaotic handover of some of the captives, who were shuttled through a rowdy crowd of thousands ...

Israel is supposed to free 110 Palestinians from its prisons in exchange for the return of hostages on Thursday ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blasted the “horrific” scenes during the chaotic hostage handover in Gaza — as the Jewish state then delayed the release of more than ...

The release of more than 100 Palestinian prisoners as laid out in the Israel-Hamas cease-fire deal had been in doubt after crowds in southern Gaza surrounded hostages who were being freed.

Three Israeli and five Thai hostages have been freed under a phased ceasefire deal that has halted fighting in Gaza. The first hostage, 20-year-old female Israeli soldier Agam Berger, was released in ...

Hamas is set to free three more Israeli hostages as well as five Thai captives, and Israel is to release another 110 ...