“The negotiations are sensitive. I can’t say there is optimism or pessimism, but we haven’t yet reached a point at which we can achieve a cease-fire,” Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said Monday. The war began with a Hamas attack on southern Israel on Oct. 7 in which Palest...
International efforts to broker a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas have suffered a setback as Israel reportedly recalled its negotiating team.
Hamas said Sunday thatGazacease-fire talks continue and the group's military commander is in good health, a day after the Israeli military targeted Mohammed Deif with amassive airstrikethat local health officials said killed at least 90 people, including children. Deif's condition remained unclear...
The mediators have spent months trying to hammer out athree-phase planin which Hamas would release scores of hostages captured in the Oct. 7 attack that triggered the war in exchange for a lasting cease-fire, the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza and the release of ...
The most intractable dispute has been over the transition from the first phase of the cease-fire — when women, children and other vulnerable hostages would be released — and the second, when captive Israeli soldiers would be freed and a permanent cease-fire wou...
The mosque has been a frequent flash point for Israeli-Palestinian violence in the past. Hamas hopes a fresh eruption now would put more pressure on Israel and improve the militant group’s leverage in cease-fire talks. But Israel put restrictions in place limiting West Bank Palestinians’ ...
Abbas Proposes Cease-Fire Talks in Gaza
Mr. Biden indicated new hope for a cease-fire. "It's time for this war to end and bring these hostages home," he said. "We're going to work out what is the 'day after' now — how do we secure Gaza and move on." Blinken issued a statement calling Sinwar "a vicious...
The Israeli war cabinet on Thursday approved sending Israeli negotiators to hostage and cease-fire talks in Paris. The war cabinet's decision will be brought to the Israeli security cabinet for approval later on Thursday night. Qatari, Egyptian and U.S. officials are also expected to be at Fr...
Secretary of StateCondoleezza Rice and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas were scheduled to meet at the United Nations in New York today, but there was little indication that a cease-fire deal was in reach. Meanwhile the carnage has increased as fighting has edged closer to Gaza's teeming popul...