Some members of Israel’s coalition have ruled out a proposed hostage deal with Hamas, but the prime minister has yet to state his position.

A senior Israeli official on Tuesday said the government stood firm on its call for the release of all hostages in any future Gaza deal, after Hamas accepted a new truce proposal. Mediators are awaiting an official Israeli response to the plan,

Six months after Eliya Cohen got out of Gaza, he says he cannot begin to recover. Not while other hostages are still held there.

Few of the Israelis taken hostage in the Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7, 2023, have drawn as much attention as the Bibas family — two parents and two small children. For many Israelis, their abductions came to symbolize the brutality of the assault.

Netanyahu wants to realize Trump’s vision of relocating much of Gaza’s population through what he refers to as “voluntary migration” and what critics have warned could be ethnic cleansing.

New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said Wednesday that his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu has “lost the plot” and that Israel’s planned occupation of Gaza City is “utterly unacceptable.

For Netanyahu, the calculation is now straightforward: win the war quickly, and the rest will sort itself out. In March 2024, with the US presidential race heating up and just five months after the October 7 massacre,

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the expansion of Israeli plans to temporarily take over Gaza beyond just Gaza City on Monday.

ANALYSIS: As Germany pauses military sales to Israel in anger over Gaza, Benjamin Netanyahu now faces global isolation and a sprint to authoritarianism - only America can stop it, writes world affairs

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has penned a blistering letter admonishing Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for failing to confront the “epidemic” of antisemitism that has “intensified” under his watch.