Gaza war

10 hours ago - The Gaza war is an armed conflict ... Gaza–Israel conflicts. The war began on 7 October 2023, when the Palestinian militant group Hamas led a surprise attack on Israel, in which 1,195 Israelis and foreign nationals were killed and 251 were taken hostage....

October 15, 2025 - Since Hamas' horrific terrorist attack on October 7th, I have been outspoken about Hamas' barbarism and Israel’s right to defend itself.

2 days ago - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu adjusts the headphones during a joint press conference with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in Jerusalem Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, Pool, File) ... Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share ... JERUSALEM (AP) — A former close aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that immediately following the October 2023 Hamas attack that triggered Israel’s two-year war in Gaza, the Israeli leader instructed him to figure out how the premier could evade responsibility for the security breach.

1 week ago - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said in a statement that he and the country’s defense minister had personally ordered Mr. Saad’s assassination. A longstanding member of Hamas, Mr. Saad had slowly risen in the ranks to become the armed wing’s second-in-command, according to two Arab intelligence officials.

3 days ago - Republican US Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina speaks to the media in Tel Aviv, Israel, December 21, 2025. (AP/Maya Levin) Hamas must be given a deadline for relinquishing its weapons, after which Israel will have a green light to return to combat operations across the Gaza Strip, US Senator Lindsey Graham told The Times of Israel on Sunday.

Hamas, a designated terrorist organization by the US, EU, and other states, was founded in 1987 as an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, a movement dedicated to promoting Islamist extremism worldwide.

4 days ago - Israel and Hamas agreed to the first phase of a multi-step peace deal in October that saw Hamas agree to release Israeli hostages in exchange for a ceasefire that has largely held despite bursts of hostilities between the two parties in the ...

4 days ago - The mediating countries urged both Israel and the Hamas terror group – which remains the de facto government of about half the Strip – to adhere to the peace plan, and to exercise more restraint to avoid a return to war.

3 days ago - The Islamic Resistance Movement, ... with a military wing known as the al-Qassam Brigades. It has governed the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip since 2007....

Since 2007, Hamas has held their own people, Israel, and the region hostage. Their message of hate has helped to foil the peace efforts of 2007-2008, the 2014 framework agreement, and more lately also a preliminary understanding reached with ...

Get the latest developments as the war between Israel and Hamas unfolds.

1 week ago - It is expected to begin soon, though Israel is still awaiting the return of Gvili, which is to be completed under the first phase. The next step of the plan envisions Hamas disarming and Israel withdrawing as a multinational force deploys across the Strip at the same time that a Palestinian technocratic body begins managing Gaza’s day-to-day affairs.

1 week ago - U.S. President Donald Trump announced on October 8, 2025 that Israel and Hamas signed the first phase of an agreement to end the war in Gaza based on the 20-point plan released in late September, pledging the release of all hostages, a partial ...

October 14, 2025 - The UN still regards Gaza as Israeli-occupied territory because of the level of control Israel has. Hamas won Palestinian elections in 2006, and ejected its rivals from the territory after intense fighting the following year.

November 18, 2025 - Lately, the Israeli right has begun a vociferous campaign to prevent the prosecution of Israel prison guards caught on camera abusing a Palestinian prisoner. Hamas, meanwhile, has cited what it claimed were Israeli efforts to take over Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem — Islam’s third-holiest site — as well as the abuse of Palestinians in Israeli jails and violence by the Israeli Army and settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank, as part of its justification for its mass murder of Israeli Jews on Oct.

1 week ago - Top Hamas commander Raed Saad is seen in an undated photo (Social media, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law) Israel confirmed Saad’s death on Saturday, with Palestinian media reporting a total of five people killed in a strike that targeted a car traveling along the coastal Rashid Road.

1 week ago - Thus, unsurprisingly, MAP-UK’s twisted statement on the first anniversary of the Hamas massacre on Oct. 7, 2023, marked only “one year of Israel’s military assault and siege” and even “potential genocide.” No word on the atrocities that started the war.

5 days ago - Gaza has been split in two. Hamas is reconsolidating its control in the western half of the enclave that Israel withdrew from. East of the yellow line, in Israel-controlled territory, armed groups are trying to assert dominance.