Four Israeli women, all members of the Israeli military, have been returned to their homeland after being held in Gaza by Hamas for over 470 days. Karina Ariev, Daniella Gilboa, Naama Levy and Liri Albag, aged 19 to 20, were reunited with their families in ...

As 20 Israeli hostages returned home, Colette Lipszyc, mourning her fallen cousin, shares in the relief felt across North Texas after a historic Hamas prisoner release.

JERUSALEM (RNS) — Over the years, many of the young Orthodox women studying at the Midreshet Lindenbaum seminary yearned to join a combat unit in the Israeli army but knew that staying religiously observant in a coed, religiously mixed setting would be ...

TEL AVIV — An Israeli report released Tuesday said that Hamas used sexual violence as a “tactical weapon of war” in its Oct. 7, 2023, attacks, building on other investigations by international and Israeli rights groups and the United Nations.

Hamas released four Israeli hostages in Gaza early Saturday in exchange for 200 Palestinian prisoners to be released later in the day. It was the second release to occur as part of the ceasefire agreement that began last weekend. Israel followed with the ...

JERUSALEM, Jan 25 (Reuters) - The Palestinian militant group Hamas on Saturday released four Israeli female soldiers, who were exchanged for 200 Palestinian prisoners incarcerated in Israeli jails. The four appeared to be in good health. They are all ...