Hamas has announced it would release four female soldiers held hostage for 15 months in Gaza, as part of an exchange for dozens of Palestinian prisoners laid out in its ceasefire agreement with Israel.

IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Herzi Halevi, on Tuesday, sent a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz announcing that he would resign on March 6 after two years and two months in office, about 10 months earlier than the standard three-year term.

TEL AVIV — Israelis celebrated the return Sunday evening of the first wave of hostages from the Gaza Strip, hours after Israel and Hamas ' long-awaited ceasefire went into effect and spurred many displaced Palestinians to begin the journey home by foot after 15 months of brutal conflict.

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Israel and Hamas were expected to swap more hostages for Palestinian prisoners on Saturday, the second such exchange since a ceasefire began in the Gaza Strip last weekend and another test for the deal.

In Tel Aviv, thousands of people gathered to watch ... caused by the Israeli air and ground offensive on Jan. 19, 2025, in Rafah, as a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas went into effect.

Palestinian health workers say an Israeli strike on a built-up refugee camp in the occupied West Bank has killed two people as a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip entered a third day.

Hundreds of aid trucks were beginning to enter Gaza, which was devastated by Israeli airstrikes and shelling after Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, cross-border terrorist attack.

Israeli government approves ceasefire agreement. Ceasefire to begin in Gaza Sunday morning, hostages to be released in the afternoon.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says President Donald Trump has invited him to visit the White House on Feb. 4

(JTA) — TEL AVIV — “They are in our hands,” IDF ... Shay Dickmann, cousin of Carmel Gat, who was found dead in a Hamas tunnel in Rafah along with five other hostages at the end of August ...

In Tel Aviv, four people were wounded in a stabbing ... Palestinians return to destroyed homes and businesses in Gaza RAFAH, Gaza Strip — Many Palestinians from the southern Gaza city of Rafah ...

Three hostages have been handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross, according to NBC News’ crew in Gaza, and will be making their way to Israel.