People in Deir al-Balah are told to leave, as the IDF prepares to launch its first ground offensive in the city during its war against Hamas.

Despite his gratitude for every day he gets with his son, Levy’s ordeal won’t truly be over until all the hostages are home. “The fact that people are still there haunts me in the night,” Levy said.

Bashar Thabet, a commander in Hamas’ Development and Projects Department, within its weapons production headquarters, eliminated.

Mediators present updated Israeli control zones in Gaza as Hamas weighs terms of proposed ceasefire, prisoner exchange deal - Anadolu Ajansı

Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani criticized public broadcaster BBC for biased reporting on the ongoing Middle East conflict. He condemned the use of selective language in its coverage of the Israel-Gaza war,

Israeli-American Keith Siegel was seized in the Hamas attack, he says a deal to bring home the remaining hostages must be made "as soon as possible."

The terrorist organization also said that if an agreement was not reached in the latest round of ceasefire talks, the group would not agree to an interim truce or partial hostage deal in the future. Hamas' Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades spokesperson said on Friday the group would not agree to an interim truce in the future if a ceasefire agreement was not reached during ongoing negotiations and accused Israel of intransigence.

A recent attack against Israeli soldiers in Gaza highlights a Hamas shift to guerilla-stye tactics as the militant group, battered and weakened after nearly 21 months of war, wages an insurgency campa

Yasser Abu Shabab, the leader of a Gazan militia operating in an area under Israeli military control, says in an interview with the UK’s Sunday Times that his group is not funded or armed by Israel, and insists that he is “just an ordinary Palestinian person who cares about his own people.”