Gaza The NYT broke news that Israeli officials were warned about Hamas's attack plans over a year before Hamas carried them out, but largely dismissed the warning as imaginative. Meanwhile, Israel ac …

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Gaza Israel and Hamas agreed to add at least one more day to their short-term ceasefire agreement just minutes before it was about to expire.Hamas has now released 97 hostages, including 70 Israelis. …

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Gaza The temporary ceasefire in Gaza continued today with further hostage / prisoner exchanges.The peace may not last much longer: Hamas must be running low on hostages to free, and some analysts thi …

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Gaza Hamas and Israel agreed - via Qatari mediators again - to extend their ceasefire another two days.As part of the extension deal, Hamas will release 10 more hostages and Israel will release 30 mo …

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Coming Up This Week Two big treaty conferences happen this week: signatories of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons meet today through Friday, and COP 28 - a meeting of the parties on th …

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Gaza Hamas's leader, Ismail Haniyeh, said Hamas and Israel are "approaching a truce agreement" for a temporary (reportedly five-day) ceasefire via Qatari mediation.Haniyeh blamed Israel for stalling …

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