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Alexander Smith

Senior Reporter

Alexander Smith is a senior reporter for NBC News Digital based in London.

Alexander Smith is a senior reporter for NBC News Digital based in London.


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24 hostages are released as Israel-Hamas deal pauses Gaza fighting

A group of 24 hostages — 13 Israelis and a number of Thais — were released from the Gaza Strip on Friday, as a breakthrough deal between Israel and Hamas to pause fighting.

24 hostages are released as Israel-Hamas deal pauses Gaza fighting

A group of 25 hostages — 13 Israelis and a number of Thais — were released from the Gaza Strip on Friday, as a breakthrough deal between Israel and Hamas to pause fighting in the war took hold after weeks of secretive diplomacy.

Hostage deal exposes tensions between Israel’s far-right and hostage families

As Hamas and Israel agree to the first breakthrough deal to release hostages, Israel's far-right seeking a hardline military solution clash with hostage families who want more negotiations

Fringe proposal to displace Palestinians draws condemnation and triggers past trauma

A far-right proposal to displace Palestinians from Gaza has painful historical echoes and could constitute ethnic cleansing and a war crime, according to some experts.

Israel and Hamas reach deal to release 50 hostages and pause fighting for 4 days in Gaza

Israel and Hamas have agreed to a breakthrough deal to release 50 women and children who were kidnapped and held in Gaza, a potential landmark deal that will also involve a four-day pause in fighting, the delivery of hundreds of aid trucks, and the release of 150 Palestinian women and children held in Israeli jails.
3d ago

Israel and Hamas reach deal to release 50 hostages and pause fighting for 4 days in Gaza

Israel and Hamas have agreed a breakthrough deal to release 50 hostages held in Gaza, a potentially landmark agreement that will also involve a four-day pause in fighting, the delivery of hundreds of aid trucks, and the release of Palestinian women and children held by Israel.

Israel says new videos show Hamas hostages and a tunnel at Al-Shifa Hospital

Israel has released new video showing what it says are Hamas fighters forcing hostages into Gaza's Al-Shifa Hospital, as well as tunnels under the building.

Information missteps have led to questions about Israel’s credibility

Alongside its fight with Hamas, Israel is fighting another battle: to convince the world, and chiefly the United States, that this is a just war.

Israel’s bombardment of Gaza could be potent recruitment tool for Hamas, experts warn

Israel’s ferocious bombardment of the Gaza Strip will create an incubator for a new generation of terrorists, some extremism experts say, as thousands of young people who have lost families and homes risk being radicalized by the war and its likely chaotic aftermath.

Palestinian man in West Bank says he was stripped and beaten by Israeli soldiers and settlers

Amid mounting reports of violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, a man says he was stripped, bound, beaten and photographed.

Israeli settlers drive a new wave of anti-Palestinian violence in the occupied West Bank

Amid the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, violence against Palestinians in the occipied West Bank is on the rise. Settlers and the IDF have killed more than 100 Palestinians.