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After a week of calm, Yousef Hammash woke up in the southern Gaza city of Rafah on Friday to the booming sounds of explosions. The brief feeling of safety he had felt was over, he thought. “Seven weeks of madness have been followed by seven days of humanitarian pause,” Mr. Hammash, the Norwegian Refugee Council’s…
Here’s what we know about the Israeli citizens released on Sunday. Avigail Idan, 4 Avigail IdanCredit…Hostages and Missing Families Forum Avigail’s parents, Roy Idan, 43, and Smadar Idan, 38, were killed in Kfar Aza during the Oct. 7 attack. Her two siblings Michael, 9, and Amelia, 6, both survived. Avigail, who is a dual Israeli…
Since talk about a possible prisoner swap to free hostages held in Gaza began circulating weeks ago, Nawaf Salaymeh and his family had been anxiously waiting to hear if his son and two nephews would be among the Palestinian minors who would be released from Israeli detention. “We were so worried about our sons,” said…
The Israeli government and Hamas agreed to a brief cease-fire in Gaza to allow for the release of 50 hostages captured during Hamas’s assault last month on Israel and the release of 150 Palestinian prisoners held in Israel, Qatar said early Wednesday. The cease-fire’s start will be announced within the next 24 hours, and it…
Almost 48 hours after entering Gaza’s largest medical complex, the Israeli military escorted New York Times journalists through a landscape of wartime destruction Thursday night to a stone-and-concrete shaft on its grounds with a staircase descending into the earth — evidence, it said, of a Hamas military facility under the hospital. But Col. Elad Tsury,…
Israel is pressing its case that Hamas is using hospitals as cover, releasing a pair of videos from inside Gaza’s main children’s hospital that showed weapons and explosives purportedly found in the medical center, and a room where the military said hostages were kept. While the Health Ministry in Gaza, which is run by Hamas,…
Israeli military vehicles advanced on Monday to the gates of the besieged Al-Shifa hospital complex, Gazan health officials said, as medical staff detailed the increasingly calamitous conditions inside a facility where fuel, medicine and food are running out for the hundreds of patients and thousands of people sheltering there. Without electricity or fuel, dozens of…
They knew it would be perilous, but Jinan Al Salya and her family decided to heed Israeli directions to evacuate the northern Gaza Strip and head south. They hadn’t gone far on Saturday, she said, when they came under fire. They fled their car before a shell hit it, sending it and their luggage up…
The foreign minister of Thailand said Tuesday that officials he had met in Qatar and Egypt indicated the Thai hostages held by Hamas and other armed groups would be the next to be released because they had nothing to do with the war. Thai officials working to secure the release of 24 Thai agricultural workers…
The World Health Organization said on Sunday that it had documented more than 100 attacks on the health care system in Gaza, as the Israeli military said Hamas fighters were using two additional hospitals in the enclave to conceal their operations. Fourteen hospitals in the enclave — including 10 in the densely populated area of…
