Tag: prisoner exchange
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Israel pulls back Gaza troops as clock starts on hostage release
Israel began the process of withdrawing troops from Gaza while the U.S. started the clock on a 72-hour window for Hamas to release all remaining hostages, as the complex process of ending the two-year war got underway. Israeli forces retreated on Friday to a so-called yellow line as laid out in a plan unveiled by…
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Trump says Israel, Hamas set to release hostages in breakthrough
President Donald Trump said Israel and Hamas had agreed to terms for the release of all hostages held by the Palestinian militant group in Gaza, a major breakthrough in the U.S.- and Qatari-brokered negotiations to end their two-year war. “I am very proud to announce that Israel and Hamas have both signed off on the…
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Israel and Hamas launch indirect talks in Egypt on eve of Gaza war anniversary
Israeli and Hamas officials launched indirect talks on a U.S.-drafted peace plan to end the war in Gaza
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Hamas agrees to return hostages, other parts of Trump’s peace plan
JERUSALEM — Hamas accepted most of President Donald Trump’s terms for ending the war in Gaza on Friday, delivering a “Yes, but…” response that agreed to handing over all hostages and relinquishing control of the enclave but stopped short of the full surrender outlined in the agreement. The response comes as Trump and officials in…
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Hamas says cease-fire talks to resume next week, making a truce before Ramadan highly unlikely
Hamas says its delegation has left Cairo and that talks on a Gaza cease-fire and hostage release will resume next week
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Israeli strikes hit Rafah after Biden warns Netanyahu to have ‘credible’ plan to protect civilians
A series of Israeli strikes has hit Rafah, the city on the southern edge of the Gaza Strip where 1.4 million Palestinians have fled to escape fighting elsewhere in the four-month Israel-Hamas war
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The families of a few Israeli hostages don’t want a deal to bring them home. They want Hamas crushed
A small group of families of Israelis who are hostages of Hamas believes that only continued Israeli military pressure on the militant group, rather than a deal, will free the captives
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Blinken says a Hamas-Israel deal is still possible even though the sides remain far apart
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says a cease-fire and hostage-release agreement between Israel and Hamas is still possible, despite the two sides being far apart on the central terms for a deal
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Israel and Hamas are far apart on a Gaza cease-fire and hostage deal. What are the sticking points?
Israel and Hamas are examining proposed terms for a deal meant to bring about a cease-fire in the four-month-old war in the Gaza Strip in exchange for the release of dozens of hostages who are still held captive there
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Qatar gets ‘positive’ response from Hamas on cease-fire plan as group reiterates its broader demands
Key mediator Qatar says Hamas’ response to the latest plan for a cease-fire in Gaza and the release of hostages was “generally positive.”