Israeli government approves ceasefire agreement. Ceasefire to begin in Gaza Sunday morning, hostages to be released in the afternoon.

Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi is the most senior Israeli figure to resign over the security breakdown on Oct. 7, 2023.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is tapping the brakes on claims of success by President Biden, President-elect Trump and partners in the Middle East that a ceasefire and hostage release

The cease-fire-for-hostage deal is scheduled to go into effect at 8:30 a.m. local time Sunday, Qatari officials announced earlier Saturday.

Envoy Steve Witkoff, carrying a message from Donald Trump, broke through the impasse in long-futile cease-fire talks.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a post on microblogging site X (formerly Twitter) said that Tesla CEO Elon Musk “is being falsely smeared”. Responding to a Musk’s tweet where he wrote that “the radical leftists are really upset that they had to take time out of their busy day praising Hamas to call me a Nazi,

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said early Sunday that the ceasefire in Gaza will not begin until Israel has received a list of the hostages set to be released from Hamas

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday a deal to return hostages held in the Gaza Strip has been reached, after his office had said earlier there were last minute snags in finalizing a ceasefire that would pause 15 months of war.

Jeremy Ben-Ami did not want Donald Trump to win the election. J Street, the liberal Israel lobby Ben-Ami leads, accused Trump of antisemitism and undermining democracy. It raised millions for Kamala Harris.

The fragile ceasefire deal has so far held, quieting airstrikes and rockets and allowing for increased aid into Gaza.

Hamas freed four women and Israel freed 200 Palestinians on Saturday in the second hostage and prisoner exchange as part of the most recent ceasefire deal in Gaza.