CAIRO/JERUSALEM, May 23 — Israeli airstrikes killed at least six Palestinians guarding aid trucks against looters, Hamas officials said on Friday, underlining the problems hindering supplies from reaching hungry people in Gaza following Israel's 11-week-long blockade.

ANKARA, May 22 — The Palestinian Hamas group has said the recent statements by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on continuing his genocidal war on Gaza confirm his intention of undermining the ceasefire talks and the chances of prisoner release, Anadolu Ajansi reported.

CAIRO, May 18 — Israel’s airstrikes killed at least 100 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip overnight, local health authorities said today, as mediators hosted a new round of ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas.

CAIRO/JERUSALEM, May 13 — An Israeli-American hostage was released from 19 months of captivity in Gaza during a brief pause in fighting yesterday and reunited with his family, but Israeli strikes on the battered enclave soon resumed.

RAMALLAH, April 23 — Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas today called on Hamas to lay down arms and hand the management of Gaza to his Palestinian Authority (PA), part of efforts to answer international doubts over the authority’s role at a key moment for the region.

CAIRO/GAZA, March 21 — At least 91 Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded in airstrikes across Gaza yesterday after Israel resumed bombing and ground operations, the enclave's health ministry said, effectively ditching a two-month-old ceasefire.

JERUSALEM, March 19 — Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday defended the resumption of airstrikes in Gaza, saying that negotiations on restoring the ceasefire would continue "only under fire".

CAIRO, March 16 — Israeli military strikes have killed at least 14 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, the enclave's Health Ministry said on Sunday, as Arab and United States (US) mediators work to shore up a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

CAIRO/JERUSALEM, March 9 — Israel and Palestine’s Hamas signalled yesterday that they were preparing for the next phase of ceasefire negotiations, as mediators pushed ahead with talks to extend the fragile 42-day truce that began in January.

ISTANBUL, March 2 — The Palestinian Foreign Ministry has called on the international community to “take responsibility and pressure Israel into allowing a sustained flow of aid into Gaza and prevent Tel Aviv from weaponising hunger to advance its political agenda.” According to Anadolu Ajansi,...

CAIRO, Feb 24 — Talks with Israel through mediators on further steps in a ceasefire agreement are conditional on Palestinian prisoners being released as agreed, Hamas official Basem Naim said yesterday.

JERUSALEM, Feb 23 — Israel has said it is delaying the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners it had planned to free the day before until militant group Hamas met its conditions, underscoring the fragility of the Gaza ceasefire accord.

ANKARA, Feb 14 — The Palestinian group Hamas said on Thursday that it is ready to resume the next hostage release on Saturday if Israel adheres to the terms of the Gaza ceasefire agreement, Anadolu Agency reported.

WASHINGTON, Feb 11 — United States (US) President Donald Trump proposed cancelling the Gaza ceasefire between Israel and Hamas if all the hostages in the Strip are not released by Saturday, Anadolu Agency reported.

GAZA CITY (Palestine), Jan 28 — The Palestinian group Hamas said Monday that a senior delegation led by Mohamed Darwish, the head of its Shura Council, had arrived in Egypt for an official visit to discuss the implementation of the Gaza ceasefire agreement and prisoner exchange with Israel, Anadolu Agency (AA) reported.

ANKARA, Jan 27 — Thousands of Palestinians began returning to the northern Gaza Strip on Monday morning as part of the ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas group that came into effect on January 19, Anadolu Agency reported.

JERUSALEM/CAIRO, Jan 19 — Palestinians headed for the rubble of their former homes in the Gaza Strip today and Israelis prepared to receive the first hostages held by Hamas after a ceasefire deal took effect that could pave the way for an end to the 15-month-old war.

LONDON, Jan 16 — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has welcomed the announcement of a ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip, Palestine, which is set to take effect on Sunday.

DOHA/CAIRO/JERUSALEM, Jan 16 — The Gaza Strip suffered from Israel's intensified strikes hours after a ceasefire and hostage release deal was announced, residents and authorities in the Palestinian enclave said, as mediators sought to quell fighting ahead of the truce's start on Sunday.

ISTANBUL, Jan 16 — Qatar, Egypt, and the United States (US) vowed yesterday to guarantee the implementation of a Gaza ceasefire agreement between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas, which is expected to come into effect on January 19, Anadolu Agency (AA) reported.