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Hamas, Israel and hostages

Israel and Hamas Prepare for Next Round of Hostage and Prisoner Releases

Under the Gaza cease-fire terms, Hamas was expected to share the names of four female hostages to be released Saturday, and Israel would name the more than 100 Palestinian prisoners to be freed in exchange.

Reuters on MSN · 5h

Hamas says next hostages will be released on Saturday as scheduled

CAIRO/TEL AVIV (Reuters) -Hamas said on Monday it would next release hostages held in Gaza on Saturday, after an official with the Palestinian militant group had said they would be released a day later than expected.

YAHOO!News · 4h

Hamas to name next Israeli hostages set to be released

Hamas is expected to hand over to Israel the names of four hostages to be released on Saturday under the Gaza ceasefire deal. It is thought they will be soldiers and civilians, all female. They will be freed in exchange for 180 Palestinian prisoners held in Israel.

PA Media on MSN · 3h

Israelis await names of next four hostages to be released by Hamas

As a fragile six-week ceasefire between Israel and Hamas entered its sixth day, Israelis waited anxiously for the names of the next four hostages who will be released from among t

The Jerusalem Post on MSN · 7h

Israeli officials expect Hamas to comply with Saturday hostage release

Hamas will likely comply because it has an interest that Israel will withdraw its forces from the Netazrim corridor, an Israeli official told The Jerusalem Post.

Israel, West Bank and Gaza

The Associated Press on MSN · 2d

Israel’s top general resigns over Oct. 7 failures, adding to pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi is the most senior Israeli figure to resign over the security breakdown on Oct. 7, 2023.

The Washington Post · 1d

Middle East latest: Gaza ceasefire holds as Israel cracks down in the West Bank

The ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas stretched into a fifth day on Thursday. Humanitarian aid groups are working to surge food and supplies to the war-ravaged territory as Palestinians scour through mountains of rubble looking for bodies of those killed by Israeli bombardments during the 15-month war.

CNN on MSN · 23h

With Gaza quiet, Israel is turning its focus on the West Bank. Here’s why

The sudden expansion of Israeli security operations in the West Bank has killed at least 10 people and follows the start of the delicate ceasefire process in Gaza, by which Israeli hostages are released in stages and will also see the gradual withdrawal of Israeli forces.

Jewish Insider4h

Eight murderers to be allowed back into Israel in hostage deal

Forty-five of the prisoners named as part of cease-fire deal are Arab citizens or residents to be let free in Israel, while ...

1hon MSN

Police arrest 14 illegal workers, bakery owner in Jerusalem

Border Police officers arrested 14 illegal residents in a Jerusalem bakery on Friday, Israel Police reported. The 14 illegal ...

Crux7h

Bishops say Israel-Gaza peace agreement give an ‘uncertain road’ to recovery

A group of Christian leaders visiting the Holy Land say they “hope that a fragile ceasefire agreement” between Israel and ...

The Israel-Hamas ceasefire appears to be holding steady. Does Trump deserve credit?

Both the Trump and Biden administrations have publicly claimed credit for pushing the agreement over the line.

Hosted on MSN11h

Jerusalem man arrested for Hezbollah ties

The Shin Bet (Israel's anti-terror General Security Service) and the Central Unit of the Jerusalem District arrested a ...

Jewish Telegraphic Agency2d

This Jerusalem pizzeria renamed itself after Donald Trump to please American customers

When Trump was nominated, I said, yalla, let’s do it. He’s going to be good for Israel, he has a Jewish son-in-law,” said ...

The Forward on MSN2d

At a Trump inauguration event in Jerusalem, fervent optimism with an undercurrent of unease

Attendees received red baseball caps adorned with U.S. and Israeli flags and the phrase, “God Bless President Trump.” ...

The Times of Israel1d

The Incoming Israel Tourism Tsunami. This year in Jerusalem!

It is interesting to note, as Yossi Klein Halevi, Donniel Hartman, and other commentators observed, Israel is now safer ...

Harvard expands its definition of antisemitism – when does criticism of Israel cross a line?

(THE CONVERSATION) As part of Harvard University’s agreement in response to two federal lawsuits filed by Jewish students alleging antisemitic discrimination, it will adopt the International Holocaust ...

1dOpinion

Israel feels very different from the place I once knew

There’s a house in Kibbutz Nir Oz, an Israeli community near the Gaza border, that used to be the Siman Tov family’s home.

Hosted on MSN10h

Mom of Harrisburg man killed in Israel by terrorist bomb: ‘What’s an acceptable number of murderers to be released for one hostage?’

Katherine Baker — formerly of Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County, and now of the Philadelphia suburb of Bala Cynwyd — is as happy as any other Jewish person for the three hostages released Sunday ...

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