The Latest Breaking News from Hamas

Nearly six months into the Gaza war, with the families of hostages still held captive by Hamas desperate for their release, many former hostages are finding the words to describe the ordeal of captivity.

Families of U.S. citizens held hostage by Hamas express frustration over stalled talks and plead for urgent action to secure the release of their loved ones.

Letter: The idea that Israel was right to have responded to Hamas’s horrific attacks as it has done is callous and lacking in empathy, writes Ayesha Masood

The strike has highlighted the risks faced by humanitarians helping civilians during the Israel-Hamas war

Among the victims of Monday's air strike in Damascus against the Iranian consulate was Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a high-ranking member of the Revolutionary Guards, his deputy Mohammad Hadi Hajriahimi, and five other officers. While Iran has blamed Israel for the attack and vowed to retaliate, some analysts suspect that Iran…

The deaths of seven aid workers add credence to allegations by observers that commanders on the ground in Gaza may ‘do as they please’

France's Foreign Minister Sébastien Séjourné has held talks with his US counterpart Antony Blinken in Paris after a Washington-based NGO was struck by an Israeli airstrike in central Gaza, adding pressure on the United States to toughen its stance in the war between Israel and Hamas.

The killing of foreign aid workers in Gaza has piled further pressure on Israel over its conduct of the war against Hamas, renewing scrutiny of how the Israeli army selects its targets in an ongoing military campaign that has devastated most of the Gaza Strip and killed or maimed tens…

Israeli intelligence sources reveal use of ‘Lavender’ system in Gaza war and claim permission given to kill civilians in pursuit of low-ranking militants