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.

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

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.

The Israel-Hamas war ceasefire has provided some respite for Palestinians in Gaza after two years of killings and destruction.

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

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.

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.

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

President Donald Trump is hailing the ceasefire deal he brokered between Israel and Hamas as the end of the war in Gaza and start of rebuilding the devastated territory.

Across Israel, it's a day of joy and tears with families, loved ones and friends waiting anxiously as Hamas began releasing the last living hostages held captive for over two years in the Gaza Strip.

Israel and Hamas have taken a significant step in the ceasefire agreement for the Gaza war by releasing hostages and prisoners.

Two officials tell The Associated Press that food distribution sites run by the controversial U.S.-Israel backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation are being shut down under the terms of the ceasefire deal.

Israel says it has received 20 hostages released by Hamas while Israel has released nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners as the ceasefire in Gaza held amid a critical day for all sides and the region.

Tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians are returning to neighborhoods in Gaza as a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is in its second day.

Tens of thousands of Palestinians displaced by the war in Gaza have started moving north toward their homes, or what remains of them, after a ceasefire agreement came into effect.

Tens of thousands of Palestinians headed back to the heavily destroyed northern Gaza Strip as a U.S.-brokered ceasefire came into effect on Friday.

The United States is sending about 200 troops to Israel to help support and monitor the ceasefire deal in Gaza as part of a team that includes partner nations, nongovernmental organizations and private-sector players.

Palestinians in Gaza have welcomed the news of an agreement on the first phase of a peace plan between Israel and Hamas.

Israel’s Cabinet has approved President Donald Trump’s plan for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and the release of all the remaining hostages held by Hamas, a key step toward ending a ruinous two-year war that has destabilized the Middle East.

President Donald Trump says Israel and Hamas have agreed to the “first Phase” of his peace plan to pause fighting and release at least some hostages and prisoners.

The Israeli military has intercepted a nine-boat flotilla in the Mediterranean Sea trying to break Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza and detained scores of activists on board.

Peace talks between Israel and Hamas have resumed in Egypt.

It’s been two years since thousands of Hamas-led militants poured into southern Israel after a surprise barrage of rockets.

Israelis are mourning the dead and fearing for the remaining hostages as they mark two years since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack plunged the region into a devastating war.

Nearly two years after the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks in Israel and the county’s ensuing invasion of the Gaza Strip, Americans are more divided on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict than they were before the war – and concerns are mounting about the safety of Jewish communities at home.

Palestinians in Gaza are anxiously following indirect talks between Israeli and Hamas officials in Egypt.

Israeli and Hamas officials are holding indirect talks in an Egyptian resort on a U.S. peace plan for Gaza.

Israeli and Hamas officials launched indirect talks on a U.S.-drafted peace plan to end the war in Gaza.

Israel and Hamas are preparing for indirect negotiations in Egypt on Monday as hopes are rising for a possible ceasefire in Gaza.

Minutes after journalists converged on the site of an Israeli strike in Gaza, cameraman Ibrahim Qannan began a live broadcast.

Israel's prime minister says he hopes to announce the release of all hostages from Gaza “in the coming days” as Israel and Hamas prepare for indirect talks in Egypt on a new U.S. plan to end the war.

U.S. President Donald Trump has ordered Israel to stop bombing the Gaza Strip after Hamas said it had accepted some elements of his plan to end the nearly two-year war and return all the remaining hostages taken in the Oct. 7, 2023, attack.

The Netherlands' highest court has ordered the government to reevaluate a license to export F-35 fighter jet parts to Israel.

Hospitals say that Israeli strikes overnight killed at least 57 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

Hundreds of Israeli police officers have been deployed to the port of Ashdod to process some 450 international activists detained by Israeli naval forces hours earlier.

Local hospitals report at least 31 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip.

The Palestinian president is speaking over video to world leaders after the United States revoked his visa.

Two major news agencies are demanding that Israel clarify what happened during strikes last month that killed five journalists as part of the Israeli war against Hamas in Gaza.

Israeli strikes have killed at least 17 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, including 10 children and three women, according to local health officials, as international pressure for a ceasefire continues to grow.

A drone launched by Yemen’s Houthi rebels wounded 22 people in the southern Israeli city of Eilat on Wednesday, according to medics.

The U.N. Security Council once again aired a divide between the veto-wielding United States and most of the rest of the world over how to end the war in the Gaza Strip and resolve the Mideast conflict.

A Palestinian medical charity says Israel destroyed its main center in Gaza City after ordering its evacuation.

A growing number of experts have said Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip amounts to genocide, deepening Israel’s isolation and risking untold damage to the country’s standing even among allies.

Israeli forces are showing no signs of relenting on their new ground offensive in Gaza City as world leaders gather in New York for the United Nations General Assembly and more countries prepare to join the surge of nations recognizing a Palestinian state.

Health officials say Israeli strikes in Gaza City overnight and at a refugee camp have killed more than 40 people, including 19 women and children.

Israeli strikes have killed at least 14 people overnight in Gaza City, according to health officials.

A new poll finds more U.S. adults view Israel’s military action in Gaza as excessive than at the beginning of its war with Hamas.

Aid workers saved thousands of priceless archaeological artifacts in Gaza from destruction last week after Israel targeted the warehouse building in a strike.

Israeli forces have launched a new ground offensive in Gaza City, with heavy strikes reported across the area.

Israel has launched its offensive in Gaza City, vowing to overwhelm a city already in ruins from nearly two years of war.

Qatar's prime minister has denounced Israel as Arab and Muslim foreign ministers are meeting to discuss a unified response to Israel's attack on Doha.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has arrived in Israel as it intensifies attacks on northern Gaza.

Qatar’s prime minister has accused Israel of not caring about the hostages in the Gaza Strip with its attack on Hamas leaders in Doha.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has announced plans to seek sanctions and a partial trade suspension against Israel over the war in Gaza.

Israel has killed multiple senior officials with Hamas and its regional allies since the deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Hamas-led militants in southern Israel that triggered the war in Gaza.

Israel launched a strike targeting Hamas’ leadership in Qatar as they considered a U.S. proposal for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

An international activist group aiming to deliver aid to Gaza says one of its boats was hit by a drone while docked in Tunisia.

The Israeli army has issued evacuation orders and targeted high-rise buildings in famine-stricken Gaza City.

AP reporting raises questions about Israel's rationale for a deadly attack on Gaza’s Nasser Hospital.

Associated Press reporting into an Israeli attack that killed 22 people at a Gaza Strip hospital, including five journalists, raises questions about Israel’s rationale for the attack and the way it was carried out.

The largest professional organization of scholars studying genocide says that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

An official tells The Associated Press that Israel plans to slow or halt humanitarian aid in parts of northern Gaza as it expands its offensive against Hamas.

The Gaza Health Ministry says the death toll in Gaza has surpassed 63,000 as Palestinians face the start of Israel’s expanded offensive in Gaza City.

The last photos taken by Mariam Dagga show the damaged stairwell outside a hospital in the Gaza Strip where she would be killed by an Israeli strike moments later.

Israeli and U.S. officials are meeting in Washington to discuss post-war Gaza.

Mariam Dagga, a freelance visual journalist in Gaza for The Associated Press, was killed by an Israeli strike on a hospital.

Israel struck one of the main hospitals in the Gaza Strip and then hit the facility again as journalists and rescue workers rushed to the scene.

Witnesses say Israeli forces shot dead four Palestinian aid-seekers traveling through a military zone south of Gaza City that is regularly used to reach a food distribution point.

Hospital officials in Gaza say Israeli strikes and gunfire have killed at least 33 Palestinians sheltering in tents or seeking scarce food aid.

Famine is now occurring in Gaza City.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he will give final approval for the takeover of Gaza City while also restarting negotiations with Hamas aimed at returning all the remaining hostages and ending the war on Israel’s terms.

The State Department has fired a press officer responsible for drafting Trump administration talking points about policy toward Israel and Gaza.

A funeral has been held in Italy for a young Palestinian woman who died there after being evacuated from Gaza.

The Israeli military says it plans to call up tens of thousands of reservists for an expanded operation in Gaza City.

A key mediator on Gaza is stressing the urgency of brokering a ceasefire after Hamas showed a “positive response” to a proposal.

The U.N. humanitarian office says a record 383 aid workers were killed in global hotspots in 2024, nearly half of them in Gaza during the war between Israel and Hamas.

Hamas says it has accepted a new proposal from Arab mediators for a ceasefire in Gaza that would still need Israel’s approval.

Israeli protesters demanding a deal to free hostages in Gaza have attempted to shut down the country in one of the largest and fiercest protests in 22 months of war.

Israel says it is preparing to move Palestinians from combat zones to southern Gaza as plans move ahead for a military offensive in some of the territory’s most populated areas.

People in Gaza are struggling to secure enough water for drinking and sanitation.

Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip 20 years ago, dismantling 21 Jewish settlements and pulling out its forces.

Over 100 nonprofit groups have warned that Israel's rules for aid organizations in Gaza and the West Bank will block crucial relief efforts.

Health officials and witnesses say Israeli gunfire killed at least 25 people while seeking aid.

Israel is in talks with South Sudan about the possibility of resettling Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to the war-torn East African country.

The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists says 189 Palestinian journalists have been killed in Gaza since the beginning of the war.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel plans to widen its coming offensive beyond Gaza City to the last areas not yet under Israeli control.

Local health officials in Gaza say Israeli forces have killed at least 55 people overnight, including a well-known journalist who Israel said was a militant and people who witnesses say were seeking humanitarian aid.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced that Australia will recognize a Palestinian state.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has defended a new military offensive in Gaza that’s more sweeping than previously announced.

Israel’s decision to take over Gaza City has met with resignation and defiance by Palestinians who have survived two years of war and repeated raids.

Israel says it plans to take over Gaza City.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is meeting with top advisers to discuss Israel's strategy in Gaza after ceasefire talks broke down last month.

Israel has routed its enemies across the region but has yet to return all its hostages from the Gaza Strip.

Local health officials say at least 38 Palestinians were killed overnight and during the day in the Gaza Strip while seeking aid from United Nations convoys and sites run by an Israeli-backed American contractor.