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Israeli strikes kill 100 in Gaza

Palestinian rescuers reported more than 100 people killed Thursday in Israeli strikes on blockaded Gaza, where a US-backed organisation said it intends to begin distributing aid by the end of the month.

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Hamas frees US-Israeli hostage

Hamas said Monday that its armed wing had released a US-Israeli hostage, with a source close to the Islamist movement adding that Edan Alexander was handed over to the Red Cross in the southern Gaza city of Khan Yunis...

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Hamas says ready to free hostage, remains of 4 others

Hamas on Friday said it was ready to free an Israeli-American hostage and the remains of four other dual nationals, after the Palestinian militants and Israel gathered for indirect Gaza ceasefire talks.

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450 passengers of Pak train held hostage

Armed militants held hundreds of train passengers hostage on Tuesday in an on-going siege claimed by a separatist group behind rising violence in southwestern Pakistan.

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Hamas to hand over four Israeli hostages’ bodies

Hamas will hand over the bodies of four Israeli hostages on Thursday in what it said would be an exchange for more than 600 Palestinian prisoners, capping the first phase of a Gaza ceasefire deal...

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Hamas says committed to truce, hostage release

Hamas said Thursday it was committed to honouring a truce with Israel that has come under severe strain in recent days, adding that it planned to proceed with the next hostage-prisoner swap this weekend as planned...

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Hamas-Israel complete fourth hostage-prisoner swap

Freed Palestinian inmates were greeted by a cheering crowd in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah on Saturday, after Hamas released three Israeli hostages from the Gaza Strip in the fourth exchange under the group’s ceasefire deal with Israel...

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Hamas will free four women hostages in next swap

Hamas said on Tuesday it will release four women hostages in the next swap with Israel under the terms of a fragile truce intended to bring to an end to 15 months of war in Gaza...

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Ceasefire: not holding my breath

THE announced ceasefire agreement between Israel and Gaza is reminiscent of the last days of the Carter administration, a time when American hostages were released with Reagan (and his behind-the-scenes machinations) taking credit for ending the hostage impasse.  Be on the look-out for Trump to take 95 per cent of the credit...

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Mediators make final push for Gaza truce deal

Mediators were making a final push Wednesday to seal a Gaza truce and hostage release deal, after a Qatari official involved in the talks expressed hope an agreement could be reached ‘very soon’...

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Iran stages rallies to mark 1979 hostage crisis

Iranian demonstrators gathered on Sunday outside the former US embassy in Tehran to mark the anniversary of the 1979 hostage crisis that has for decades shaped relations between...

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Israel recovers hostage bodies from Gaza

Israel announced Sunday its troops had found six dead hostages in a Gaza tunnel, as Israeli police said a ‘shooting attack’ in the occupied West Bank killed three officers...