A senior Hamas commander has reappeared in a new video, seemingly alive and well after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced his death last May.

Steve Witkoff helped negotiate the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal. His visit to Gaza on Wednesday was the first by a senior U.S. official in more than a decade.

Romi Gonen, 24, Emily Damari, 28, and Doron Steinbrecher, 31, the first three hostages released from Gaza, have arrived in Israel.

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Hamas officials accused Israel yesterday of delaying aid deliveries to Gaza and jeopardising a truce and hostage release deal, an allegation Israel

Israel said on Wednesday that 11 more hostages held in Gaza, including five Thais, would be freed over two days this week as part of a fragile Gaza ceasefire.

Hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians returned to northern Gaza on Tuesday after the Israeli military withdrew from a key crossing that had previously blocked their movement during the Hamas-Israel war. The withdrawal was part of a ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel earlier this month.

Hamas turned over a list of Israeli hostages, with information on whether they were alive or dead, to be released during the pause in the 15-month war.

Israeli troops fired on people trying to return home to southern Lebanon and delayed a return home for northern Gaza residents. Israel blamed Hezbollah and Hamas.

A video published on Wednesday shows Hussein Fayyad (Abu Hamza), commander of the Beit Hanoun Battalion in the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, appearing in Gaza eight months after the Israeli military announced he had been killed in northern Gaza.

Relatives of the hostages blocked Tel Aviv’s main Ayalon highway on ... with entire neighbourhoods in Jabalia, Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahiya reduced to rubble. [ ‘Assad was no friend of the ...

Israeli forces have killed two Palestinian militants who carried out a deadly attack on a bus in the West Bank earlier this month