Israel’s defense minister, Israel Katz, said that 40,000 Palestinian residents displaced from militant hotbeds would not be allowed to return to their homes. By Isabel Kershner Reporting from ...

As the news of the Bibas kids being identified by forensics and Shiri Bibas not having been one of the remains sent back to Israel, many people expressed their condolences and anger online.

Hamas said it handed over four hostages to Israel in a display a senior U.N. official called “abhorrent and cruel.” Israel later said only three bodies belonged to captives. By Aaron Boxerman ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered Israel’s military to conduct an operation in the occupied West Bank after three empty buses exploded in a suspected terror ...

Israel has delayed an expected release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners and detainees in exchange for returned Israeli hostages “until further notice,” the Palestinian Prisoners Society ...

Hamas called on Israel to return the remains of the unidentified Gazan woman to the decimated Palestinian territory. The Israel Defense Forces issued a terse statement Friday rejecting Hamas ...

"Tomorrow will be a very difficult day for the State of Israel. A shocking day. A day of sorrow. We are bringing home four of our beloved hostages, fallen soldiers. We embrace the families ...

The Israeli military says the sixth and final hostage was released by Hamas in the latest exchange on Saturday and has arrived back in Israel even as heightened tensions clouded the future of the ...

Israel said it will delay the release of over 600 Palestinians, after Hamas handed over six Israeli hostages. Meanwhile, Germany evacuated a building linked to a foiled Israeli embassy attack.

JERUSALEM, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Israel said on Sunday it was delaying the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners it had planned to free the day before until militant group Hamas met its ...

The handover of more than 600 Palestinian prisoners has been postponed "until the release of the next hostages is secured without humiliating ceremonies", Israel has said. The 620 Palestinians ...

Mahmoud Illean/AP The Israel Defense Forces claimed that Hamas killed the Bibas children "with their bare hands," denying Hamas' claim that they were killed in an airstrike. "Following a forensic ...