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RAMAT GAN, Israel (AP) — For more than 470 days, Eitan Gonen publicly pleaded with his daughter to stay alive while in Hamas ...

In the ceasefire’s first phase, Israel and Hamas have agreed that 33 Israeli hostages in Gaza will be released in exchange ...

Hamas-led militants freed the first of eight hostages on Thursday in the latest release since a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip ...

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

Hamas has announced it would release four female soldiers held hostage for 15 months in Gaza, as part of an exchange for ...

Three Israelis and five Thai nationals were freed earlier in what PM Benjamin Netanyahu called "shocking scenes".