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.

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.

It took weeks of secret negotiations involving U.S., Israeli, Qatari and Egyptian officials, the heads of the CIA and the Mossad, and the personal intervention of President Joe Biden to convince a reluctant Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to accept a four-day cease-fire that is expected to free 50 hostages from Hamas.

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.

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.

It was a question posed on a private Facebook page that resulted in a retired Boston-area pediatrician’s being charged this week in Hingham District Court with raping two children — and sparked an investigation spanning several generations of former patients.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators are expected to gather TuesdayTens of thousands of demonstrators are expected to gather on the National Mall in a forceful show of support for Israel and to condemn antisemitism in the wake of increased bias incidents nationwide.

Two young women who reported to their conservative Michigan college that they were sexually assaulted by male students have accused the school in a lawsuit of conducting “phony investigations” into their allegations and then blaming them “for being raped.”

Evyatar David's family refuses to give up hope that he will come home weeks after he was taken hostage by Hamas.

Israel’s conflict with Hamas is leading some to express their feelings toward Jews ‘very loudly,’ resulting in a spike in reported antisemitic incidents.

Desperate Palestinians were using their bare hands Tuesday to retrieve bodies buried in the ruins of a Gaza refugee camp moments after it was hit by an airstrike that reduced more than a dozen buildings to rubble, killed dozens and wounded hundreds of people, according to local health officials.