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Another group of hostages have been released by terror group Hamas, including a woman with ties to South Florida.

Families of American hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip are describing their anguish and calling on the U.S. and Israeli governments to do all they can to bring home their loved ones home.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is warning that antisemitism in the United States has reached levels unseen in generations and called on his fellow Democrats to clearly condemn it.

It has become an Israeli mantra throughout the latest war in Gaza: Hamas is ISIS.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the Biden administration would like to see a new extension of the cease-fire agreement in Israel’s war with Hamas after the current one expires.

Hamas and Israel have completed another exchange of hostages and prisoners on the sixth day of a temporary cease-fire in the war in Gaza.

Israel and Hamas agreed to extend a temporary truce by another day minutes before it was set to expire, said Qatar, which has been mediating between the two sides.

As the Israel-Hamas war inflames passions throughout college campuses nationwide, pro-Palestinian sentiment has surprised some university officials where the student government at Florida International University has demanded that the school takes steps against Israel.

Kfir Bibas has spent nearly a fifth of his life as a Hamas hostage.

Dubai is preparing to host the COP28 climate talks as world leaders including U.S. President Joe Biden and Pope Francis have signaled they will not be attending the negotiations.

The latest swap of hostages held by Hamas militants in Gaza for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel started with the release of 10 Israeli hostages — nine women and a 17-year-old girl — as well as two Thais handed over to the Red Cross in Gaza.

Hamas has freed 12 hostages and Israel has released 30 Palestinian prisoners on the fifth day of a fragile cease-fire in the Gaza war.

An Israeli hostage freed by Hamas has said in an interview that she was initially fed well in captivity until conditions worsened and captives became hungry.

Relatives and a friend of Israelis kidnapped and killed by Hamas are visiting Australia this week and sharing personal stories in an effort to lobby for international support for all hostages to be freed — and to support Israel’s war effort.

Oakland’s City Council has passed a resolution calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war after hours of hearing impassioned rhetoric about the deaths of thousands of civilians in Gaza.

A South Florida family is thankful for their 13-year-old relative to have been released by Hamas, but they are still hoping for the release of the girl’s mother who was also taken in Israel on Oct. 7.

The hostage deal had seemed on the verge of unraveling.

A temporary truce between Israel and Hamas has been extended for two more days.

The top Palestinian diplomat has made a plea during a meeting of European Union members and Arab nations for a definitive end to Israel’s retaliatory attacks on the Gaza Strip.

Israel and Hamas have agreed to extend their cease-fire for two more days past Monday.

As hostages return from captivity, details about the conditions of their captivity in Gaza have begun to emerge through stories their family members are telling the press.

President Joe Biden has spoken by telephone with family of the 4-year-old girl who was released as part of the cease-fire deal in the Israel-Hamas war.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry says it will summon the Irish ambassador over a tweet celebrating the release of a 9-year-old girl from Hamas captivity.

Armed assailants seized and later let go a tanker linked to Israel off the coast of Yemen on Sunday before being apprehended by the United States Navy, officials said.

Health officials say Israeli forces operating in the occupied West Bank killed at least eight Palestinians, including at least one militant, in a 24-hour period.

Antisemitism is spiking across Europe after Hamas' Oct. 7 massacre and Israel's bombardment of Gaza, worrying Jews from London to Geneva and Berlin.

A cautious calm has prevailed over the border area in south Lebanon.

A container ship owned by an Israeli billionaire has come under attack by a suspected Iranian drone in the Indian Ocean as Israel wages war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

Hamas militants released 17 hostages, including 13 Israelis, from captivity in the Gaza Strip, while Israel freed 39 Palestinian prisoners in the latest stage of a four-day cease-fire that has delivered a brief respite from a devastating war between the two enemies.

Hamas freed 10 Thai nationals who were seized in the group’s surprise attack on southern Israel last month.

On the 49th day of the Israel-Hamas war, a video showed women and children boarding a bus with a sign of the Red Cross, identified as a “neutral intermediary.”

The cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas will bring relief to dozens whose relatives are being held captive.

A four-day cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war began in Gaza on Friday with an exchange of hostages and prisoners.

On the first day of a four-day Gaza cease-fire agreement, Hamas released 24 hostages abducted by militants from southern Israel seven weeks ago.

Thousands of people led by Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel have marched along Havana’s iconic boardwalk in solidarity with the Palestinian people and demanding an end to the war between Israel and Hamas.

Negotiations to free the hostages held by Hamas hardly ran smoothly.

Israel’s military offensive has turned much of northern Gaza into an uninhabitable moonscape.

A four-day cease-fire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas will begin Friday morning, a day later than originally planned.

Israeli military officials have shown a group of international journalists a small living quarters they found in a tunnel underneath Shifa Hospital, claiming that the space had been used by Hamas militants.

A South Florida family is hoping their loved one will be able to return home after Israel and Hamas agreed to a deal that will allow Hamas to release 50 of their hostages this week.

Since Hamas fighters carried out the deadliest attack on Israel in decades, Israeli officials have vowed to crush the Palestinian militant group and its enigmatic leader in Gaza.

International aid groups that have lined up thousands of aid trucks for Gaza say they’re ready to move quickly to send in food, water and other supplies if a pause in the fighting between Hamas and Israel takes hold.

Oscar-winning actor Susan Sarandon and “Scream” star Melissa Barrera were each dropped by Hollywood companies after making comments on the Israel-Hamas war that some deemed antisemitic.

Israel’s national security adviser says cease-fire talks with the Hamas militant group are ongoing, and a hostage release will not take place before Friday.

A cease-fire to facilitate the release of dozens of people taken hostage during Hamas’ raid on Israel is expected to bring the first respite to war-weary Palestinians in Gaza and a glimmer of hope to the families of the captives.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s national security adviser says a planned hostage-for-prisoner swap with Hamas has been delayed until at least Friday.

Speaking in in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Tuesday, President Joe Biden said they were close to striking a deal with Hamas.

Palestinian health officials in Gaza say they have lost the ability to count the dead because of the collapse of the enclave's health system and the difficulty of retrieving bodies from areas overrun by Israeli tanks and troops.

The websites of two government ministries in Bahrain have briefly became inaccessible after a cyberattack took them down, purportedly over the island kingdom’s stance on the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has accused Israel of war crimes and genocide in Gaza during a virtual meeting of leaders of developing countries including Russia’s Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping.

Israel’s Cabinet has approved a cease-fire agreement with the Hamas militant group that would bring a temporary halt to a devastating war that has continued for more than six weeks.

Qatar has announced a truce-for-hostages deal between Israel and Hamas that would bring a four-day halt in fighting in a devastating six-week war.

During the ceremonial tradition of pardoning a turkey before Thanksgiving Day on Monday, President Joe Biden indicated he was hopeful about the negotiations with Hamas over the release of hostages.

A Utah man has been charged with threatening a Palestinian rights organization in Washington.

Nearly a month ago, the Israeli military unveiled a detailed 3D model of Gaza’s Shifa Hospital.

As the Israel-Hamas war ensued after the Oct. 7 attack, opposing protests and arrests over clashes as tempers flared continued in South Florida.

China’s top diplomat welcomed four Arab foreign ministers and the Indonesian one to Beijing, saying his country would work with “our brothers and sisters” in the Arab and Islamic world to try to end the war in Gaza as soon as possible.

There has been possible movement in a deal to free hostages held in Gaza that we know includes Israelis, Americans and people from two dozen countries.

Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels have seized an Israeli-linked ship in a crucial Red Sea shipping route and taken the 25-member crew hostage.

President Joe Biden and Congress are facing some unusually public challenges over their support for Israel’s offensive against Hamas.

The World Health Organization says 31 premature babies in “extremely critical condition” have been evacuated from Gaza’s largest hospital and will be transferred to Egypt for specialized care.

President Joe Biden says that achieving a cease-fire amid Israel’s war with Hamas “is not peace” and that an important key to lasting stability is a reunited Gaza Strip and West Bank that can be governed under “a revitalized Palestinian Authority.”.

Survivors of Nazi atrocities have joined young Jewish activists in Paris to sound the alarm about resurgent antisemitic hate speech, graffiti and abuse linked to the Israel-Hamas war.

Thousands of family members and supporters of some 240 hostages held in Gaza have streamed into Jerusalem on foot to castigate Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over his handling of the war with Hamas.

The first planeload of Palestinian children wounded in the Israel-Hamas war raging in the Gaza Strip has reached the United Arab Emirates, part of a pledged relief effort by the country to aid 1,000 children.

A United Nations team was briefly allowed into Gaza’s largest hospital after it was evacuated by Israeli troops.

Jordan’s foreign minister has offered blistering criticism of Israel’s war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip, describing it as “blatant aggression” against Palestinian civilians that threaten to engulf the wider Middle East.

The hostages Hamas fighters are holding include Kfir, a 10-month-old baby boy; his 4-year-old brother Ariel; and his parents Yarden and Shiri Bibas.

Israeli families visited a warehouse in Hollywood Friday, where tons of essential supplies continue to be collected and then sent back home to their loved ones who are currently in the crossfires of the Israel-Hamas war.

Israeli forces have killed five Palestinians, including three militants, across the West Bank, deepening a surge of violence in the occupied territory that has accompanied Israel’s war in the Gaza Strip.

The federal government has opened civil rights investigations at seven schools and universities over allegations of antisemitism or Islamophobia since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war.

The United Nations was forced to stop deliveries of food and other necessities to Gaza and warned of the growing possibility of widespread starvation after internet and telephone services collapsed in the besieged enclave because of a lack of fuel.

Limited phone and internet services began working again Friday across Gaza after fuel was delivered to restart generators that power the networks.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has urged leaders of developing nations to unite in the face of growing challenges due to the Israel-Hamas war.

Abbey Onn lost her aunt and a young cousin when Hamas attackers rampaged through Kibbutz Nir Oz on Oct. 7.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz have aired deep differences over the war between Israel and Hamas as the Turkish leader makes a brief and tensely anticipated visit to Berlin.

President Joe Biden said Thursday that he plans to sign the stopgap spending bill to keep the government funded and avert a shutdown at the end of the week.

National Democrats this year have insisted the party is united and ready to rally around President Joe Biden heading into next year’s election.

As the Israel-Hamas war rages in Gaza, there’s a bitter battle for public opinion flaring in the U.S., with angry rallies on many college campuses and disruptive protests at prominent venues in several major cities.

A dire fuel shortage in the Gaza Strip has shut down all internet and phone networks.

Internet and telephone services have collapsed across the Gaza Strip for lack of fuel, the main Palestinian provider says, bringing a potentially long-term communications blackout.

Police and protesters have clashed outside Democratic National Committee headquarters during a demonstration for a cease-fire in the war between Israel and Hamas.

A European Championship qualifying game between Switzerland and Israel ended with a 1-1 draw on Wednesday.

After raiding the Gaza Strip’s largest hospital, Israel appears close to completing its takeover of the besieged territory’s northern sector.

The U.N. Security Council has approved a resolution calling for “urgent and extended humanitarian pauses and corridors throughout the Gaza Strip” after four failed attempts to respond to the Israel-Hamas war.

For years, the Houthi rebels controlling northern Yemen have chanted slogans at their mass rallies calling for the destruction of Israel.

Two and a half weeks after sending tanks and ground troops into northern Gaza, Israeli forces have entered a hospital that they claim Hamas operates out of.

Israeli troops stormed into Gaza’s largest hospital, searching for traces of Hamas inside and beneath the facility filled with hundreds of patients, including newborns, who have gone for days without electricity and with little food.

After four failed attempts, the U.N. Security Council is trying for a fifth time to come up with a resolution on the Israel-Hamas war.

Supporters of Israel have rallied by the tens of thousands on Washington's National Mall, voicing solidarity in the fight against Hamas and crying “never again.”.

Tens of thousands of people gathered on Tuesday, holding signs and waving flags for a rally at the National Mall in Washington to support Israel as the Israel-Hamas war continues.

A well-known doctor at Gaza’s largest hospital was killed along with three relatives in an airstrike on the home where they were sheltering.

The United States says it has imposed a third round of sanctions on a group of Hamas officials, members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad who work to transfer money from Iran to Gaza, and a Lebanese money exchange service that facilitates the transfers.

The Israeli military says its forces are raiding Gaza’s largest hospital, the site of a lengthy standoff with the Hamas militant group.

Fighting between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants outside Gaza’s largest hospital has prompted thousands of people to flee from the medical facility.

The Israeli army says its forces are carrying out “a precise and targeted operation” against Hamas militants in a specific area of Shifa hospital, the largest in the besieged territory of Gaza.

In the video, the woman is heard yelling, “You guys are taking all our f---ing money, you bastards. Hitler should’ve f---ing finished the job. He knew what the f--- he was doing.”

Gaza’s Shifa Hospital has become the focus of a dayslong stalemate in Israel’s war against Hamas.

The 27 European Union nations have jointly condemned Hamas for what they described as the use of hospitals and civilians as “human shields” in the war against Israel.

Health officials say battles between Israel and Hamas around hospitals forced thousands of Palestinians to flee from some of the last perceived safe places in northern Gaza.