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Fighting claimed lives until the final moments before the truce between Israel and Hamas took effect. For some, an unexpected ...

Scrambling over sand banks and craters, hundreds of thousands of Palestinian families describe the long trek back home to ...

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians streamed into Gaza’s most heavily destroyed area on Monday after Israel opened the north for the first time since the early weeks ...

Delayed by a dispute over the release of a specific hostage, an agreement has been reached to allow Palestinians to return to ...

The ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas stretched into a fifth day on Thursday. Humanitarian aid groups are working to ...

Palestinians in Gaza are confronting an apocalyptic landscape of devastation after a ceasefire paused more than 15 months of ...

"At least a million people won't have homes to return to," says Shelly Culbertson, a senior researcher at the think tank RAND ...

Israel’s longest war has so far failed to destroy its main enemy, Hamas, which, despite suffering devastating losses, is ...

Sunday’s delayed start to the truce was a minor problem compared with the difficult choices and American leverage needed to ...

The skies over Gaza fell silent for the first time in 14 months, bringing both relief and a sharper understanding of all that ...