An agreement has been reached between Israel and Hamas that involves the release of additional hostages and the return of Palestinians to the northern part of the Gaza Strip.

To better understand what the cease-fire will mean for the Israelis, the Palestinians, and the Middle East, Foreign Affairs turned to Marc Lynch, a professor of political science at George Washington University and the director of its Middle East Studies program.

The full extent of the damage will only be known when the fighting ends and inspectors have access to the territory.

Armed U.S. private security contractors will take up positions inside central Gaza, tasked with inspecting vehicles headed north from southern refugee centers.

The Gaza ceasefire is huge news. But the costs of its delay are devastating.

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — A long-awaited ceasefire in ... The planned ceasefire, agreed after a year of intensive mediation by the United States, Qatar and Egypt, is the first step in a ...

Israel says troops fired on masked gunmen in Gaza, but it remains committed to the ceasefire as it continues a new offensive in the West Bank.

A suggestion by President Donald Trump to "clean out" the Gaza Strip and ask Egypt and Jordan to take in more Palestinians raised new questions Sunday about United States policy toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and two of its most important allies in the Middle East.

Health officials in Gaza say a Palestinian man was killed and seven people were wounded by Israeli fire overnight.

The ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas stretched into a fifth day on Thursday. Humanitarian aid groups are working to surge food and supplies to the war-ravaged territory as Palestinians scour through mountains of rubble looking for bodies of those killed by Israeli bombardments during the 15-month war.