Israel has formally banned the main United Nations aid agency for Palestinian refugees from operating on its territory ...

Follow NBC News live updates for the latest coverage of the ceasefire and hostage release deal between Israel and Hamas.

The truce is aimed at winding down the deadliest and most destructive war ever fought between Israel and Hamas, whose Oct. 7, ...

Eight more hostages were freed by Hamas-led militants on Thursday in a sometimes chaotic process that briefly delayed the ...

On Thursday, laws passed by Israel in October come into effect banning the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency, known as UNRWA, ...

Dozens of the prisoners, who were freed on Saturday as part of a cease-fire and hostage deal, had been serving life sentences ...

Crowds of cheering Palestinians greeted prisoners released by Israel as they arrived in the West Bank city of Ramallah ...

Hamas freed three Israelis and five Thai nationals in exchange for more than 100 Palestinians. But the militant group struggled to control crowds, prompting a delay.

Israel released 110 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for three Israeli hostages and five Thai workers. The release marks the third round of exchanges.

The prisoners released were all men, ranging in age from 15 to 69, with nearly two dozen serving life sentences for more ...

Israel had delayed their release in protest against the way the seven hostages freed by Hamas were treated as they were ...

After the chaotic handover in southern Gaza, Zivan Frieden, a spokesman for Israel’s prisons authority, said in a statement ...