Hamas said on Friday that it had agreed to free Edan Alexander, an American Israeli soldier who has been held in Gaza for 17 months, and return the remains of four other hostages, without specifying when they would be released or what it was demanding in exchange. Israel did not immediately comment on Hamas’s statement. […]
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Pakistani security forces have been locked in a deadly standoff with armed militants for more than a day after the attackers seized a passenger train on Tuesday and held hundreds hostage. The crisis is a dramatic escalation of a long-running separatist insurgency in the country’s southwest. The Baloch Liberation Army, or B.L.A., a banned separatist
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Separatist militants hijacked a train carrying more than 400 people in an isolated mountainous area of southwestern Pakistan on Tuesday. The fate of the passengers, dozens of whom the militants said they were holding hostage, was not immediately clear. The militants, Baloch ethnic fighters, forced the train to stop in the Bolan district of Balochistan
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President Trump has directly warned Hamas militants to immediately release all the hostages held in Gaza or face death. In a blistering social media post on Wednesday, Mr. Trump addressed Hamas militants and built on a statement he made in his address to Congress the night before, when he said his administration was “bringing back
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U.S. and Hamas officials held talks in Qatar about hostages held in the Gaza Strip, breaking with a long-running American policy of refusing to directly engage with the militant group, according to an Israeli official and a diplomat briefed on the matter. Adam Boehler, President Trump’s nominee to be special envoy for hostage affairs, participated
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Hollow-eyed and emaciated after nearly 500 days in captivity in Gaza, Eli Sharabi stood on a podium flanked by masked Hamas gunmen, unaware of what most Israelis already knew. During the Hamas-led assault on Oct. 7, 2023, a dozen gunmen had burst into Mr. Sharabi’s house in the border community of Kibbutz Be’eri, where he
Released From Hamas Captivity, a Hostage Finds His Family Gone Read More »
When the cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas was announced in January, Israelis and Palestinians burst into simultaneous celebrations, optimistic after 15 months of war. Now, with the first phase of the deal over on Sunday and Israel introducing an entirely new proposal that Hamas has already rejected, concern is rising that the fighting that
With Cease-Fire Shaky, Israel and Hamas Consider Both Diplomatic and Military Options Read More »
Israel on Sunday announced that it would stop all goods and humanitarian aid from entering Gaza, a draconian move that disrupted the existing, agreed-upon framework for negotiating a permanent end to the war. The decision came a day after the end of the first phase of a cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas. Here’s what
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Israel announced on Sunday that it was immediately halting the entry of all goods and humanitarian assistance into Gaza, trying to force Hamas into accepting a temporary extension of the cease-fire in the enclave. The move disrupts the existing, agreed-upon framework for negotiating a permanent end to the war and puts the fate of the
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Israel proposed a temporary cease-fire extension in Gaza for the Ramadan and Passover holidays, the prime minister’s office announced around midnight on Saturday as the initial phase of the truce was expiring. It appeared to be the Israeli government’s effort to make its opening negotiating position clear, as it and Hamas struggle to move from
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