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Mahmoud Issa/Anadolu via Getty Images (LONDON) — A second straight day of talks aimed at negotiating a cease-fire between Hamas and Israel concluded in Egypt on Tuesday with no breakthrough, a Hamas official told ABC News. Israel did not send a delegation to Cairo for the latest round of negotiations and has declined to comment […]

pawel.gaul/Getty Images (LONDON) — Israel and Hamas have agreed to a temporary cease-fire in the war-torn Gaza Strip and the release of dozens of hostages. Here’s what we know about the deal. The agreement between the Israeli government and Gaza’s militant rulers, Hamas, was mediated by Qatar, Egypt and the United States. The Qatari Ministry […]

Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The conflict in Gaza between Israel and Hamas has led to scarce access to food, water, sanitation and medical supplies in overcrowded shelters and facilities that are housing hundreds of thousands of displaced people, many women and children, according to multiple humanitarian organizations. Current conditions put these people at high […]

Spencer Platt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah was standing near the Lebanon-Israeli border on Oct. 13, a Friday afternoon six days into the current conflict in Israel, doing what he did best: cover war zones from the Middle East to Ukraine. On this day, he was providing a live signal for a […]

BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — During a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, President Joe Biden said he was “deeply saddened and outraged” by the deadly hospital strike in Gaza, and seemed to determine that Israel was not to blame, saying it was “done by the other team.” The comments came shortly after […]

pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than a week after Hamas terrorists rained thousands of rockets down on Israel and infiltrated the country by air, sea and land in an unprecedented surprise attack, the region stands on the brink of war — with fears of a wider conflict and thousands dead on both sides of […]