Ceasefires in Gaza and Lebanon appear at risk as disputes continue over key deadlines and local health officials say Israeli forces opened fire on both fronts

Lebanon, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) Kareem Al-Dabaji mourns his brother Anas Al-Dabaji, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike that hit an apartment in Deir Al-Balah ...

Qatar’s foreign ministry said the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas will go into effect at 0630 GMT on Sunday.

Militants in the Gaza Strip released eight hostages on Thursday, handing them over to the Red Cross amid chaotic crowds as part of a swap that is set to see 110 Palestinians released from Israeli prisons later in the day.

Israel and Hamas reached a deal to resolve a disagreement over the exchange of a female civilian hostage that had threatened to derail the truce. Lebanon, however, saw the deadliest day since Israel’s truce with Hezbollah took effect.

Hamas militants on Saturday released four female Israeli soldiers they held captive for 15 months in a planned exchange for 200 Palestinian prisoners or detainees in Israel. It’s the second

From right next to the homes of Lebanese civilians in the South of Lebanon, we can see that ... of the Gaza Strip and areas in eastern Deir al-Balah were told to evacuate to humanitarian zones.

Earlier, in central Gaza, a vehicle carrying four Hamas terrorists was struck by the IAF in Deir al Balah. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with the parents of hostage Liri Albag on ...

Since October, the Biden administration has sent about $121 million in taxpayer funds to UNRWA, the U.N. agency under scrutiny for its alleged ties to Hamas, the State Department said Tuesday. A ...

That in turn could defuse tensions across the wider Middle East, where the war has stoked conflict in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Iraq, and raised fears of all-out war between arch regional foes Israel and Iran. With 98 ...

The 90 recently released Palestinian prisoners were women and teens, often imprisoned for social media posts. A large number had never even been charged with a crime. by Kathryn Shihadah…

In another serious violation of the ceasefire agreement, Israeli soldiers shot, on Sunday morning, four Palestinians in the Nuseirat refugee camp, in central Gaza. Media sources said the soldiers fired…