The release came after several days of negotiations following Israel’s refusal on Saturday to exchange some Palestinian prisoners it had pledged to free.

Hamas says talks with Israel about further steps in the Gaza ceasefire deal are conditional on Palestinian prisoners being freed as agreed. Israel said on Sunday it was delaying the release of more than 600 Palestinians in return for six living and four dead hostages who had been freed,

The barbaric treatment drew condemnations from around the world — and even from Saudi Arabia’s grand mufti, who called the display, “a disgrace to Islam.”

The remains of the youngest and one of the oldest captives seized by Hamas during the attack that ignited the war in the Gaza Strip are expected to be returned on Thursday,

Israeli and Hamas officials say they have reached an agreement to exchange the bodies of dead hostages for the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.

Anyone who chooses to act against the State of Israel and take part in terrorist activity has no place within it,” Arbel said.

Hamas has handed over the bodies of four Israeli hostages, said to include a mother and her two children who have long been feared dead and had come to embody the nation’s agony following the Oct. 7,

A trial has begun in Germany for four alleged Hamas members suspected of organizing weapons caches across Europe

GENEVA - The World Health Organization is deeply concerned about violence in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and the impact of what it called \"starkly rising\" attacks on healthcare, its representative in the Palestinian territories said on Tuesday.

UN health agency chief says ceasefire enabled even more children to be reached than in previous rounds, including those who may have been missed due to security issues

UN body's spokesman calls to expand medical evacuations from Gaza to Jordan and the West Bank, says it hopes to bring in a prefabricated hospital by March

The Israeli military said that the body released by Hamas and purported to be of Shiri Bibas did not match, "this is an anonymous, unidentified body.”