The negotiations focused on freeing Edan Alexander, the only American Israeli hostage still believed to be alive, and the bodies of four other U.S.-Israeli dual citizens who were kidnapped and taken to Gaza in the October 2023 attack, officials told The New York Times.

The sixth hostage, Hisham Al-Sayed, 36, was released from Gaza City without a ceremony. Al-Sayed, a Bedouin Arab citizen of Israel, and Mengistu, an Ethiopian-Israeli man, had been in captivity for around a decade, after crossing into Gaza on their own in ...

How many of us knew that the city of Gaza, the war-torn Palestinian enclave, has a Greek past that defined the history of the place?

Pope Francis remained in critical condition Monday but showed slight improvement in laboratory tests and resumed some work, the Vatican said, including calling a parish in Gaza City that he has kept in touch with since the war there began.