The first phase of the cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas is nearing completion ... The militant group’s armed wing has appointed new commanders and begun mapping out where to position ...

Interior Minister Moshe Arbel barred European Parliament member Rima Hassan from entering the country on Monday, citing her past comments encouraging boycotts and sanctions of Israel, and armed ...

An IDF spokesman on Monday afternoon confirmed that a rocket was launched towards Israel from Rafah, in southern Gaza. " A short while ago, a projectile launch that fell inside the Gaza Strip was ...

Associated Press journalists saw several tanks move along unpaved tracks into Jenin, long a bastion of armed struggle against Israel. Israel is deepening its crackdown on the Palestinian territory ...

In some ways, having a small nuclear arsenal is the worst of both worlds; it invites pre-emptive strikes, without providing much certainty about your capacity to retaliate.” ...

Earlier five of the six Israeli hostages freed on Saturday were handed over in staged ceremonies, escorted by masked, armed militants ... family in southern Israel during the Hamas-led Oct.

The handover of more than 600 Palestinian prisoners has been postponed "until the release of the next hostages is secured without humiliating ceremonies", Israel has said. The 620 Palestinians ...

Israel’s military has said Ms. Bibas and her sons were held captive by a smaller armed group in Gaza, the Mujahedeen Brigades. About 60 hostages remain in Gaza, about half of them already ...

Israel’s military deployed tanks Sunday into the occupied West Bank Sunday for the first time in more than two decades and said residents who had been “evacuated” will be prevented from ...

Five of the captives were handed over in staged ceremonies that the Red Cross and Israel have condemned in the past — brought out by masked, armed Hamas fighters in front of hundreds of ...

Hamas called on Israel to return the remains of the unidentified ... along with previous hostage handovers that have seen large crowds of well-armed Hamas terrorists and civilians crowding around ...

In response to the bus blasts, Israeli defence minister Israel Katz instructed the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) to intensify operations in the West Bank as the military blocked entry points to ...