Mia Schem, a 21-year-old French-Israeli hostage who appeared in a sick Hamas video, has finally been released by the terror group.

• Blinken tells Israeli president he hopes pause will continue

Some of the captives are coming home. But there’s little relief in this temporary pause to the fighting. “It’s happiness wrapped in sadness,” one newly-freed woman tells Rolling Stone

Young activists often see the world as split between the oppressed and their oppressors—and their views are markedly different than those of older Americans.

A long-term cease-fire would likely require both sides to make hard-to-swallow concessions

Police in Vermont arrest a male suspect over the attack which they are investigating as a possible hate crime.

Families and children kidnapped from southern Israel's Kibbutz Beeri were among the 13 Israeli hostages released by Hamas on Saturday, according to accounts given to AFP by their relatives, Israeli press, and the Hostage Families Forum.

Additional humanitarian aid making its way to Gaza Strip

Four foreigners and 13 Israelis were handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross

Halevi noted that the Israeli military is using the four-day truce in Gaza to "learn, prepare ourselves and our capabilities better" ahead of the continued fighting.

Four-day pause in fighting came after complex, fraught talks

Fifty Israeli hostages held in Gaza will be freed over four days in exchange for the release of 150 Palestinian prisoners and a lull in Israeli military operations

The BRICS groups of nations called for a truce in Gaza during a virtual meeting, during which South Africa accused Israel of 'war crimes' and acts 'tantamount to genocide.'

A deal to release hostages taken from Israel during Hamas's attacks last month is "closer than ever before", according to a senior US official.

The Israeli military has released footage which it says shows hostages being taken into Gaza's largest hospital after the deadly Hamas attacks of 7 October.

It is now days since Israeli forces entered Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, and what appears to be happening on Friday is that they are continuing their search for evidence of this being a key Hamas command centre.

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UNICEF has decried the Israel-Hamas war, saying its worst fears about the staggering child death toll are being realized

A massive wave of airstrikes was carried out ahead of a ground incursion

Forces step up preparation for ground invasion as US calls for delay to allow aid deliveries and to free hostages