After 470 days of death, a tentative cease-fire began on Sunday in Gaza. But Palestinians could not be sure that the war had ...

Even before the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas was fully in place, Palestinians in the war-battered Gaza Strip began ...

The second phase of the ceasefire still needs to be worked out, and the deal doesn’t begin to address long-term questions ...

For Hamas, armed struggle is looking like a dead end. Its future in Gaza now depends on the diplomacy of its civilian ...

The UN has said that people in Gaza are “effectively starving.” Before the war, the territory was “largely self-sufficient” ...

Hamas has yet to hand over a list of hostages to be released under the deal, meaning the scheduled truce hasn’t gone into ...

WE do injustice to Gaza when we look for its poems, so let us not disfigure Gaza’s beauty,” says the Palestinian poet Mahmoud ...

The world has been watching the genocide underway in Gaza, already reeling from the illegal land, air and naval blockade imposed by Israel since 2007. After the shocking events of October 7, 2023, ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the cease-fire would not begin until Hamas provides the names of the three ...

Qatar, which mediated the agreement, said the cease-fire deal was set to begin at 8:30 a.m. local time on Sunday.