Held hostage in a tunnel under Gaza for nearly 500 days, Or Levy – starved of sunlight, unable to stand up straight, not knowing whether his wife was dead or alive – would often watch, hungry, as his ...

Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, handed over the bodies of four Israeli hostages on Wednesday night to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), a source with Hamas told Xinhua.

Also on Thursday, a Red Cross convoy transported dozens of released Palestinian prisoners from Israel's Ofer prison.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), which is responsible for receiving the hostages from Hamas and handing them over to the Israeli military, has said it is “increasingly ...

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Two of the five hostages were transferred earlier on Saturday from a vehicle of al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas's armed wing, to vehicles of the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) in Rafah ...

An Israeli security official has confirmed that the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has received the remains ...

The body of a Palestinian woman who Hamas had handed over to Israel instead of the deceased hostage Shiri Bibas is back in ...

The Israel Air Force conducted "intelligence-based strikes" on Hezbollah military sites containing weapons and launchers that posed a direct threat to Israel's home front, the military stated on ...