Netanyahu's office said on social media early Friday that he had completed a security assessment with top officials, ordering fresh counterterrorism operations as well as stepped up security in Israeli cities.

On Tuesday, Lebanon said any Israeli presence on its soil constituted "occupation", warning it would refer to the UN Security Council to push Israel to withdraw and that its armed forces were ready to assume duties at the border.

Much of Gaza -- including schools, hospitals and other civic infrastructure -- has been reduced to rubble by a withering Israeli military offensive following an unprecedented Hamas attack on October 7, 2023.

The Palestinian terror group Hamas dismissed US President Donald Trump's promise to unleash hell if the remaining Israeli hostages are not released by Saturday.

At least four Palestinians were killed on Sunday in Gaza City despite the Israel-Hamas ceasefire brokered last month.

Hamas has announced the names of three Israeli hostages set to be released on Saturday as part of an ongoing prisoner exchange deal with Israel.

President Donald Trump announced that Gaza would be "turned over to the United States" following the militant group Hamas' war with Israel.

The idea sparked uproar from leaders in the Middle East and around the world, and on Wednesday, the Trump administration appeared to walk back some of the suggestions.

A hostage recently released from Hamas captivity revealed that she was held in United Nations facilities and denied medical treatment despite severe injuries.

The agency, UNRWA, will be banned from operating on Israeli soil, and contact between it and Israeli officials will also be forbidden.

Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt called the expense a "preposterous waste of taxpayer money" and underscored that it did not align with the administration's "America First" policy.

An Israeli soldier allegedly assaulted a New York Times reporter during a raid at a gathering with Hamas-affiliated individuals, resulting in a formal complaint from the Times.

An Israeli woman living in Ireland was forcibly removed from a Holocaust Memorial Day event in Dublin for protesting remarks on the ongoing conflict in Gaza.

Yuval Raphael, a survivor of the 2023 Hamas attack on the Nova music festival, will represent Israel at the 2025 Eurovision.

Desperately needed humanitarian aid has begun to flow into war-battered Gaza after Israel and Hamas conducted the first exchange of hostages for prisoners agreed under the terms of the ceasefire.

The three hostages released Sunday, all women, were reunited with their families and taken to hospital in central Israel where a doctor said they were in stable condition.

Romi Gonen, Emily Damari, and Doron Steinbrecher are reunited with their families in Israel.

Israel will free 735 Palestinian prisoners during the first phase of the agreement

A Palestinian journalist was violently dragged out of a press conference after relentlessly pressing Secretary of State Antony Blinken on the war in Gaza.

Eerie similarities between Joe Biden's hostage release deal and the deal made with Iran by former President Jimmy Carter do not go unnoticed.

President Joe Biden confused Lebanese political party Hezbollah with Palestinian militant group Hamas during his speech on the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

Hamas gunmen were seen parading through the Gaza Strip with firearms shortly before the militant group and Israel reached a ceasefire agreement.

Meditators Qatar, Egypt and the United States have intensified efforts to seal a ceasefire that would facilitate the release of hostages held in Gaza since Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack on Israel that sparked the war.

The number of dead in Gaza has become a matter of bitter debate since Israel launched its military campaign against Hamas in response to the Palestinian militant group's unprecedented October 7, 2023 attack.

"Of the meager 34 trucks of food and water given permission to enter the North Gaza Governorate over the last 2.5 months, deliberate delays and systematic obstructions by the Israeli military meant that just twelve managed to distribute aid to starving Palestinian civilians," Oxfam said in a statement, in a count that included deliveries through Saturday.

A license plate on a Tesla Cybertruck was recalled after allegedly mocking the October 7 attack, though the owner's family insists it was a misunderstanding.

As Islamist-led rebel forces swept Syrian president Bashar al-Assad out of power last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had ordered troops to seize the demilitarised zone between the two countries' forces on the Golan Heights.

The California DMV has come under fire for issuing a license plate users say is "celebrating" and seemingly mocking the deadly Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel.

Seven guards were killed in a strike in Rafah, while another attack left five guards dead in Khan Yunis, agency spokesman Mahmud Basal said.

Pro-Palestinian protestors repeatedly interrupted Secretary of State Antony Blinken Wednesday during a his testimony at a Congressional Hearing.