Israel says it killed a top Hamas commander in Gaza after an explosive device detonated and wounded two soldiers in the territory’s south.

Storm Byron has hit Gaza and worsened the humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian territory.

Aid deliveries into Gaza are falling short of the amount agreed upon in the U.S.-brokered ceasefire.

Bolivia’s new right-wing government says it restored diplomatic relations with Israel, the latest sign of the dramatic geopolitical realignment underway in the South American country.

Israel’s military took journalists into Rafah this week.

A Hamas leader is calling for international pressure on Israel before the Palestinian militant group moves forward with the next phase of the ceasefire in the territory.

Israeli police have forcibly entered the United Nations agency compound for Palestinian refugees in east Jerusalem.

A Hamas official says the group is ready to discuss “freezing or storing” its arsenal of weapons as part of its ceasefire with Israel.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel and Hamas are expected to move into the second phase of their ceasefire soon.

Qatar’s prime minister says the Gaza ceasefire has reached a “critical moment” as its first phase winds down.

An international body tasked with governing the Gaza Strip under the next phase of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire is expected to be announced by the end of the year.

An Israeli police officer killed during the Oct. 7, 2023, attack that triggered the country's war with Hamas is the last hostage whose remains are still in Gaza.

At least four countries have announced they are pulling out of next year’s Eurovision Song Contest.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams is embracing his love for travel in his final month in office.

Lebanon’s prime minister says his country is “far from” diplomatic normalization or economic relations with Israel.

Israel says it has received remains handed over by Palestinian militants in Gaza to the Red Cross.

Palestinians in the West Bank are living in fear of more attacks by armed Israeli settlers.

For travelers from the United States and Israel, visiting Bolivia has just become a little easier.

Israeli forces have raided a village in southern Syria, killing at least 13 people, according to Syrian officials.

Israeli forces killed a pair of Palestinian men in the occupied West Bank after they appeared to surrender to troops, drawing Palestinian accusations that the men were executed “in cold blood.”.

Israel has returned the bodies of 15 Palestinians, following Hamas' return of the remains of an Israeli hostage.

Children and families in Gaza are scooping muddy water from their tents and trying to protect the few belongings that remain after two years of war.

Israel says it has received human remains that Palestinian militants handed over to the Red Cross, but it is not immediately clear if they are one of three hostages remaining in the Gaza Strip.

Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski has summoned the Israeli ambassador over a post by Yad Vashem.

Israel has struck Lebanon’s capital for the first time since June, saying it killed Hezbollah’s chief of staff and warning the Iran-backed militant group not to rearm and rebuild.

Organizers of the Eurovision Song Contest say they’re changing the voting system of the popular musical extravaganza to ensure fairness.

Israel’s prime minister has met with top security officials to assess a rising tide of Israeli settler violence in the West Bank.

Israeli strikes across Gaza over a roughly 12-hour period have resulted in the deaths of 33 people.

The Israeli military has carried out airstrikes in southern Lebanon, targeting what it claims are Hezbollah weapons storage facilities.

President Donald Trump says he's agreed to sell F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia despite concerns that China could gain access to the plane’s vaunted American technology.

State media and the Health Ministry in Lebanon say that an Israeli airstrike on a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon has killed 13 people and wounded others.

Palestinian attackers have stabbed an Israeli to death and wounded three others in the West Bank.

The Trump administration’s blueprint to secure and govern Gaza has won strong approval at the United Nations.

Israeli settlers have rampaged through a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank, torching homes and cars in the latest in a string of settler attacks in recent weeks.

A report by an Israeli human rights group says at least 98 Palestinians have died in Israeli custody since the war in Gaza began.

A report by an Israeli human rights group says at least 98 Palestinians have died in Israeli custody since the war in Gaza began.

The German government is lifting its restrictions on military exports to Israel.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is vowing to oppose any attempt to establish a Palestinian state.

Parts of Gaza's huge Muwasi tent camp are struggling after winter's first major rainfall.

Israel has returned the bodies of 15 Palestinians to Gaza, according to officials at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis.

A U.S. proposal to provide a United Nations mandate for an international stabilization force in Gaza is facing opposition from Russia, China and some Arab countries.

Israel says militants have handed over one of the last four remaining hostages taken during the 2023 attack that launched the war in Gaza.

Israel's president says authorities must take decisive action to stop “shocking and serious” Jewish settler violence against Palestinian civilians and Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank.

President Donald Trump has urged Israel to pardon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a corruption case.

Israel’s longest war is leaving a trail of traumatized soldiers in its wake.

Yemen’s Houthi rebels are signaling they’ve stopped their attacks against Israel and shipping in the Red Sea as a shaky ceasefire holds in the Gaza Strip.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, has met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss the next stages of the fragile Gaza ceasefire.

A dwindling number of Holocaust survivors are marking the 87th anniversary Sunday of Kristallnacht at a time when antisemitism is on the rise, especially in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war.

Gaza health officials say over 69,000 Palestinians have died in the Israel-Hamas war.

Kazakhstan will join the Abraham Accords between Israel and Arab and Muslim majority countries in a move aimed at boosting the initiative that was a hallmark of President Donald Trump’s first administration.

The Israeli military says Hamas has handed over the remains believed to be of a deceased hostage to the Red Cross in Gaza.

Pope Leo XIV has called for deep reflection in the United States regarding the treatment of detained migrants.

Israel's military says the remains of a hostage in Gaza, Staff Sergeant Itay Chen, have been returned for burial in Israel.

Iranians have celebrated the anniversary of the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.

New York City’s Jewish community — the largest in the United States — is abounding with anxiety and friction a day ahead of an election that could give the city its first Muslim mayor.

A political scandal has erupted in Israel over a leaked video at the center of an investigation into allegations of severe abuses of Palestinians at a notorious military prison.

Israel has returned the bodies of 45 Palestinians, according to the Red Cross.

Skeletons are neighbors for some Palestinians in Gaza who found nowhere else but cemeteries to shelter from the war.

Israel says the remains of three hostages have been handed over from Gaza and will be examined by forensic experts as a month-old ceasefire holds.

Concerns that antisemitism is on the rise among Republicans burst to the surface this weekend at a meeting in Las Vegas.

The U_S_'s special envoy for Syria has called Lebanon “a failed state,” highlighting frustration with Beirut’s “paralyzed government.”.

Israel says the remains of three people Hamas handed over to the Red Cross do not belong to any hostages.

Israel’s top military prosecutor has resigned after admitting to leaking a video showing soldiers assaulting a Palestinian detainee.

Israeli Energy Minister Eli Cohen has said that his refusal to sign a $35 billion gas agreement with Egypt has prompted his U.S. counterpart Chris Wright to cancel a planned trip to Israel.

The Red Cross says it has transferred the unidentified remains of three people to Israel but an Israeli military official says they were still being examined and may not be those of missing hostages.

The president of a Republican-aligned think tank has defended Tucker Carlson after the conservative media personality offered a platform to a far-right activist known for pushing white nationalist and antisemitic views.

Hospital officials in Gaza say that Israel has handed over the bodies of 30 Palestinians.

A Palestinian government body says Israel has erected nearly 1,000 barriers in the occupied West Bank since Israel's war with Hamas began over two years ago.

Thirteen families whose loved ones were taken hostage during the Oct. 7, 2023, attack are still waiting for Hamas to return their remains from Gaza.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the army to carry out “powerful strikes” in Gaza.

Israel’s foreign minister says his government will not allow Turkish troops to take part in a future international peace force in Gaza.

Hamas says it is expanding its search for the remains of hostages still left in Gaza.

A Florida family is urging U.S. leaders to help free a 16-year-old Palestinian-American held in an Israeli prison for eight months.

President Donald Trump is suggesting he could call on Israel to release imprisoned Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, the most popular and potentially unifying Palestinian leader.

European Union leaders are seeking a more active role in Gaza and the occupied West Bank after being sidelined from a U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance has criticized Israel’s parliament vote on West Bank annexation.

The International Olympic Committee says it recommends no international sporting events be held in Indonesia after the country barred Israeli athletes from the gymnastics world championships in Jakarta.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance is seeking to ease concerns in Israel that the Trump administration is dictating terms to its closest ally in the Middle East.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has emphasized that his country controls its own security and is not a U.S. protectorate.

The International Court of Justice has ruled that Israel must allow the U.N. aid agency, UNRWA, to provide humanitarian assistance in Gaza.

Video obtained by The Associated Press shows an Israeli settler beating Palestinian olive harvesters with clubs in an attack that Palestinian health officials say sent at least one woman to the hospital with serious injuries.

Palestinian militants have so far released 13 bodies of hostages held in Gaza for the past two years as part of the ceasefire agreement in the Israel-Hamas war.

Maccabi Tel Aviv has announced it will decline tickets for a Europa League game against Aston Villa next month regardless of growing calls for the English city of Birmingham to reverse a ban it imposed on the Israeli club's fans.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance and other envoys projected optimism about Gaza’s fragile ceasefire agreement during a visit to Israel even as they acknowledged significant challenges remain.

Police officers were among dozens of people injured during rioting between rival fans at a soccer game in Tel Aviv, Israeli authorities said.

Israel’s military says Palestinian militants in Gaza have handed over another body of a hostage.

Gaza's fragile ceasefire is facing its first major test.

Israel says Hamas has handed over “two coffins of deceased hostages” from Gaza.

Israel has received the coffin of a missing hostage handed over to the Red Cross from Hamas.

British officials are working to overturn a decision preventing Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from attending a Europa League soccer game at Aston Villa.

President Donald Trump is warning Hamas that “we will have no choice but to go in and kill them” if internal bloodshed persists in Gaza.

Israel’s National Institute of Forensic Medicine has identified the remains of two more hostages returned from Gaza, as officials and families warned Hamas to hand over the bodies of those still held.

The last 20 living hostages released by Hamas are beginning a difficult path to recovery that will include rebuilding a sense of control over their lives and following a carefully supervised diet.

Israel received the remains of two more hostages Wednesday, hours after the Israeli military said that one of the bodies previously turned over was not that of a hostage.

Israel has received the remains of two more hostages after they were transferred by the Red Cross from Hamas.

Hamas has deployed hundreds of police and clashed with armed groups in Gaza in what the militant group says is an attempt to restore law and order in areas where Israeli troops have withdrawn for the U.S.-brokered ceasefire.

The World Cup qualifier between Italy and Israel has taken place amid a heavy police presence that included snipers on the stadium roof.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport has rejected two requests from the Israel Gymnastics Federation regarding Indonesia's decision to block Israeli athletes from the world artistic championships in Jakarta.

The tenuous ceasefire in Gaza is holding after the release of hostages and Palestinian prisoners and detainees, but uncertainties remain.

The Israeli Prime Minister's Office has confirmed that authorities received the remains of four more dead hostages.