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Israel says it received the remains of 3 hostages from Gaza as fragile ceasefire...

JERUSALEM: Israel on Sunday announced that the remains of three hostages had been handed over from Gaza and would be examined by forensic experts, as a fragile month-old ceasefire held.

Remains of deceased hostages Amiram Cooper 84, and Sahar Baruch, 25, returned to Israel

Cooper, an economist and poet, was a founder of Kibbutz Nir Oz; Baruch was an engineering student; both were kidnapped from their border kibbutzim in...

Iran ‘is not and was not’ developing nuclear weapons, says UN’s nuclear chief

‘We are often misquoted about this and people say that we have said things we never said,’ says IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi Cooperation between Tehran and...

Headed for Israel, Rubio says Knesset’s vote to annex threatens Trump’s Gaza plan

Top US diplomat says endorsement of West Bank sovereignty ‘might be counterproductive,’ US president has ‘made clear’ annexation ‘not something we’d be supportive of right now

Israel army says two soldiers killed in southern Gaza on Sunday

First Israeli fatalities since the ceasefire took effect on Oct. 10 Israeli military said Sunday it had resumed enforcing a ceasefire in Gaza

Netanyahu says Gaza war not over until Hamas disarms

“When that is successfully completed... then the war will end,” he told the right-wing Israeli Channel 14 Hamas has so far resisted the idea and since the...

Lebanon says Israeli strikes kill one and wound seven

Israel has repeatedly bombed Lebanon despite a November ceasefire, which followed more than a year of hostilities with the Iran-backed militant group that culminated in two months of open war

Israel threatens to resume fighting if Hamas does not respect Gaza truce deal

Hamas’s armed wing said the two bodies returned would be the last for now — falling far short of the plan’s demand to hand over all of them

Egyptian president: Trump’s Middle East proposal ‘last chance’ for peace

Abdel Fattah El-Sisi calls for two-state solution, saying Palestinians have right to an independent state Meeting in Sharm El-Sheikh aims to “usher in a new page of...

First 7 hostages freed as part of Gaza ceasefire are in Israel

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hamas released seven hostages on Monday, the first to be released as part of a ceasefire that paused two...