Deadly airstrikes in Gaza on Wednesday have raised doubts about new U.S. efforts to advance a ceasefire there.
A marathon meeting between U.S. negotiator Jared Kushner and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left the fate of the Gaza ceasefire unclear.
U.S. negotiator Jared Kushner has held a rare meeting with the Hamas chief in Egypt in a push to make progress on the stalled Gaza ceasefire.
An extremist official in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet has advocated for killing “30 to 40” people in Gaza each night.
The top U.S. military commander in the Middle East has visited the long-deployed USS Lincoln in the Arabian Sea.
President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and negotiator Jared Kushner will travel to the Middle East next week to try to advance plans for an end to the conflict in Gaza after a deal recently announced by the Trump administration ran into Israeli opposition.
Israel’s prime minister is rejecting President Donald Trump’s announced deal for Gaza and says Israeli forces won’t withdraw from the Palestinian territory until Hamas disarms.
The Board of Peace official overseeing Gaza’s postwar transition has met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The Israeli military is rapidly constructing a large earthen barrier in the Gaza Strip, further entrenching the division of the tiny Palestinian enclave.
The Associated Press has surveyed more than 1,000 Jewish adults in the U.S. to better understand their views on Israel’s military actions in Gaza, their opinions of the political parties and their experiences with prejudice.
An Israeli strike on a funeral in the Gaza Strip has killed at least seven people and wounded another 22.
A lead U.S. negotiator for the release of hostages captured by Hamas during the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks in Israel will have a book out this fall.
Hamas says it has dissolved its government in Gaza and is preparing to transfer power to a U.N.-backed technical committee.
Local health officials say the latest Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip have killed at least four Palestinians, including a 13-year-old girl.
Guy Gilboa-Dalal, an Israeli man who says he was sexually abused while held hostage in Gaza, is speaking out to highlight sexual abuse in conflict zones.
British authorities have blocked a Turkish American streamer Hasan Piker and political commentator Cenk Uygur from entering the U.K. The Home Office said Monday that their electronic travel authorizations were canceled over concerns that their presence might not be conducive to the public good.
Dozens of Palestinians in Gaza City gathered for funeral prayers for 10 people killed in Israeli strikes.
An international stabilization force promised for Gaza has yet to materialize three months after it was announced at an event hosted by U.S. President Donald Trump.
Palestinian hospital officials say Israel has carried out a pair of airstrikes in Gaza City, killing at least three people and injuring 12.
The official overseeing the U.S.-brokered ceasefire in Gaza is urging the U.N. Security Council to use “every means at its disposal” to press Hamas to disarm.
Israel’s national security minister has drawn a sharp rebuke from his boss and triggered a backlash abroad after he released videos taunting detained activists from a flotilla that tried to reach Gaza.
An Israeli airstrike in Gaza has killed Hamas military wing leader Izz al-Din al-Haddad.
Nickolay Mladenov, who is overseeing the U.S.-brokered ceasefire in Gaza, says the truce hinges on Hamas’ disarmament hinges on Hamas' disarmament.
A report has found that sexual violence was systematic, widespread and integral to Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks that sparked Israel's war with Hamas.
Young Palestinian artists in Gaza have staged an impromptu exhibit to show the world the impact of war and the fragile ceasefire.
Palestinian authorities say local elections in Gaza and the West Bank are a success and mark a step toward a long-delayed presidential election.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sold a vision to Israelis as the country entered the war with Iran and invaded Lebanon.
Palestinians have voted in local elections, the first in two decades in Gaza and the first in the Israeli occupied West Bank since the start of the war in Gaza.
Rachel Goldberg-Polin has written a book about her son, Hersh, who was kidnapped during Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attack and killed in a Gaza tunnel.
Dozens of boats carrying activists and aid for Palestinians in Gaza have set sail from the northeastern Spanish city of Barcelona.
Hamas is weighing a new proposal to give up its weapons in Gaza, a major concession that would clear the way for the U.S. plan for rebuilding the war-ravaged territory.
Palestinian hospital officials say Israeli airstrikes hit a home and a police vehicle in central Gaza and killed at least 12 Palestinians, including two boys, a woman pregnant with twins and eight police officers.
As Israel unleashed a sweeping military response to the brutal assault by Hamas on October 7, 2023, it aimed punch after punch at Iran, the militant group’s longtime sponsor, and its proxies.
Israel has killed multiple senior officials with Iran's armed proxies like Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon since the Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
Israel’s top court will allow international aid groups to keep operating in the Gaza Strip and other Palestinian territories.
An Israeli strike has killed at least two Palestinians and wounded five others east of Gaza City, according to Fadel Naeem, director of Al-Ahli Hospital, where the casualties arrived.
At the inaugural meeting of his Board of Peace in Washington, President Donald Trump spoke of billions of dollars pledged to rebuild the Gaza Strip and a “new and harmonious” Middle East rising from the ashes of war.
President Donald Trump has announced at the inaugural Board of Peace meeting that nine members have agreed to pledge $7 billion toward a Gaza relief package.
Ramadan has begun in Gaza under a fragile ceasefire deal, but many say the joyous spirit of the month has disappeared.
Muslim Palestinians in Gaza are preparing for the Islamic holy month of Ramadan under a fragile ceasefire deal.
Nasser Hospital in Gaza has condemned the decision by Doctors Without Borders to suspend most work at the facility due to concerns over armed men in the compound.
Two Palestinian men riding bicycles were killed in an Israeli drone strike Tuesday, hospital officials said, as deadly violence continued in Gaza despite an October ceasefire.
Israelis forces have seized a local Sunni Islamist politician and an ally of the Palestinian militant Hamas group and took him to Israel for questioning.
As Israeli strikes killed two dozen Palestinians on Wednesday, many in Gaza wondered what had become of the ceasefire reached between Israel and Hamas in October.
Three women from the first group of Palestinians to enter Gaza through the newly reopened Rafah crossing told The Associated Press that Israeli troops blindfolded, handcuffed and interrogated them for hours after they crossed.
Israeli authorities are investigating a group of local officials and businesspeople that investigators suspect siphoned millions of dollars of wartime aid being funneled to help people in the early days of the Israel-Hamas war.
A dozen Palestinian returnees were allowed into Gaza and a few medical evacuees exited to Egypt Monday after the long-awaited reopening of the Rafah border crossing was marred by delays.
Palestinians in Gaza are watching with hope and impatience as workers lay the groundwork to reopen the territory’s Rafah border crossing with Egypt, its lifeline to the world.
Israeli strikes in Gaza have killed at least 30 Palestinians, marking one of the highest tolls since the October ceasefire.
A Gaza Health Ministry official says Israel has turned over the bodies of 15 Palestinians just days after recovering the remains of the last Israeli hostage.
Israel is marking the end of a painful chapter after the return of the remains of the last hostage held in Gaza.
Israel says the remains of the final hostage in Gaza have been recovered, clearing the way for the next phase of the ceasefire that stopped the Israel-Hamas war.
Hospitals in Gaza say Israeli forces have killed at least 11 Palestinians on one of the deadliest days since the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel took effect in October.
Israel’s government is objecting to a White House announcement about leaders overseeing the next steps in Gaza as the ceasefire enters its challenging second phase.
Rachel Goldberg-Polin, known for her advocacy for hostages abducted by Hamas-led militants, has a memoir coming out this spring.
Israeli strikes in central Gaza have killed nine people, including three women, following the U.S. announcement of a second phase in the fragile ceasefire.
The United States says it’s moving into the next phase of a Gaza ceasefire plan involving disarming Hamas, rebuilding the war-ravaged territory and establishing the group of Palestinian experts that will administer daily affairs.
Hamas says it will dissolve its government in Gaza once a Palestinian technocratic leadership committee takes over as part of a U.S.-brokered peace plan.
Health officials say at least 13 people were killed by Israeli strikes across Gaza as U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to announce his Board of Peace to oversee the fragile ceasefire.
Israel’s prime minister says a former U.N. Mideast envoy, Bulgarian diplomat Nickolay Mladenov, has been chosen to serve as the director-general for U.S. President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace aimed at overseeing the peace process in Gaza.
Hospital officials say an Israeli strike in Gaza hit a tent housing displaced people, killing a 5-year-old girl and her uncle.
A grandmother and her 5-year-old grandson have burned to death in Gaza when their tent caught fire.
Israel says it will suspend several humanitarian organizations for failing to meet its new rules to vet international organizations working in Gaza.
Barefoot children played on chilly sand as Gaza’s thousands of displaced people prepared threadbare tents for another round of winter rain.
An explosive device has detonated in Gaza and wounded one Israeli soldier, prompting Israel to accuse Hamas of violating the U.S.-brokered ceasefire.
Gaza’s tiny Palestinian Christian community is trying to capture some of the Christmas spirit under a fragile ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war.
A local Gaza hospital says Israeli troops have fired over the ceasefire line in the northern Gaza Strip, killing at least five Palestinians, including a baby.
President Donald Trump’s key peace envoy will host new Gaza talks with Arab and Muslim officials on Friday in Miami, a State Department official tells the AP.
Israel’s military says troops fired a mortar shell into a Palestinian residential area in the Gaza Strip, in the latest incident to rock the tenuous ceasefire with Hamas.
New footage shows six Israeli hostages celebrating Hanukkah while held captive in Gaza months before they were killed.