#washingtonpost.com. × Gazan civilians released from Israeli detention say they endured abuse. Some released detainees have come back to find their homes destroyed and family members killed. Israel says it releases civilians not involved in fighting.
#Feb.28.2025 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × Israel underestimated Hamas before Oct. 7 attack, military probe finds. Unlike the Israeli military, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has not launched a comprehensive commission to review the failures of Oct. 7, 2023.
#Feb.28.2025 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × Syrians emerging from dictatorship bristle at new threat from Israel. Israeli attacks are angering Syrians and unsettling the country’s new leaders, who are dealing with multiple crises after the end of Bashar al-Assad’s rule.
#Feb.26.2025 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × Dispute over disarming Hamas bedevils efforts to extend Gaza ceasefire. With the first phase of the truce set to expire Saturday, Israel and Hamas appear far from reaching an agreement to proceed to the second, decisive phase.
#Feb.26.2025 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × Six babies die of hypothermia in Gaza cold snap, health officials say. The deaths highlighted the brutal humanitarian conditions in the Palestinian enclave despite a ceasefire, doctors said.
#Feb.25.2025 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × Trump repeals Biden directive linking U.S. arms to human rights. Rescission of the order, imposed by President Joe Biden as he struggled with the civilian toll caused by Israel’s war in Gaza, comes as Trump puts his mark on U.S. foreign policy.
#Feb.24.2025 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × Hezbollah prepares to bury longtime leader, project strength amid setbacks. Hezbollah will formally bury Hasan Nasrallah in an elaborate funeral in Beirut, nearly five months after he was killed in an Israeli airstrike.
#Feb.23.2025 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × Live Briefing: Israel delays Palestinian prisoner release, accusing Hamas of ‘repeated violations’. Israel accused Hamas of subjecting its hostages to humiliation, while Hamas said the delayed release of Palestinian prisoners is a violation of the ceasefire deal.
#Feb.23.2025 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × Hezbollah facing financial squeeze as supply lines from Iran are severed. The Lebanese militant group is grappling with a stunning reversal of fortune after its war with Israel and the ouster of its Syrian ally Bashar al-Assad.
#Feb.22.2025 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × Joy and mourning as five Israeli hostages are released from Gaza. It is the largest swap under January’s ceasefire agreement, with about 600 Palestinian prisoners also slated to be freed. It comes after Shiri Bibas’s body was returned by Hamas.
#Feb.22.2025 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × Live Briefing: Israel ramps up operations in West Bank after bus explosions. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered Israeli forces to conduct “an intensive operation” in the West Bank after the blasts, in which no one was harmed.
#Feb.21.2025 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × Three empty buses explode in Israel in suspected terrorist attack. Blasts rocked three empty buses in a Tel Aviv suburb, and explosives were found at other sites, authorities said.
#Feb.20.2025 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × Hamas hands over bodies of four Israeli hostages. Members of the Bibas family — a mother and her two children, who were 4 years and 8½ months old when they were taken — are expected in the release.
#Feb.20.2025 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × Bodies of Bibas family, symbol of hostage horrors, to be returned, Hamas says. Shiri Bibas and her sons Ariel, 4, and baby Kfir were filmed being taken from their kibbutz on Oct. 7, 2023. Her husband Yarden was freed recently.
#Feb.19.2025 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × Live briefing: Hostage families question delay in ceasefire talks as Hamas proposes to free all captives. Hostage families demanded clarification from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over stalled Phase 2 ceasefire talks, saying their loved ones are at risk.
#Feb.19.2025 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × Live briefing: Hamas says it will release six living hostages and the bodies of four others. Hamas said the bodies included members of the Bibas family, believed to be Shiri Silberman Bibas and her two young sons, Ariel and Kfir.
#Feb.18.2025 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × Live briefing: Israel says troops will stay in Lebanon past ceasefire deadline. The Israeli military said it would remain in what it called “five strategic points” in southern Lebanon. Lebanese officials have called for Israel’s full withdrawal.
#Feb.17.2025 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × On first Mideast tour, Rubio warns Iran, praises Trump’s Gaza plan. After talks, Secretary of State Marco Rubio called Tehran “the single greatest source of instability in the region,” while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed Trump’s “bold vision for Gaza.”
#Feb.16.2025 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × Tensions over Palestinians at heart of Trump’s Middle East gambit. Trump’s goals for the Middle East face a major test as Secretary of State Marco Rubio holds talks with leaders in Israel and Saudi Arabia.
#Feb.15.2025 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × American hostage Sagui Dekel-Chen freed during Israel-Hamas ceasefire. The 36-year-old American Israeli dual national was released with Russian Israeli Alexander Troufanov, 29, and Iair Horn, 46, who was born in Argentina.
#Feb.15.2025 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × American hostage freed by Hamas in latest exchange amid tense ceasefire. Israeli American dual national Sagui Dekel-Chen, along with Alexander Troufanov and Iair Horn, were released by Hamas. In exchange, 369 Palestinian prisoners were set to be freed.
#Feb.15.2025 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × Live Briefing: Hamas names hostages it will release Saturday, including American citizen. The announcement Friday appeared to resolve a dispute between Hamas and Israel that had imperiled a ceasefire agreement.
#Feb.14.2025 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × Live briefing: Hamas says it will release Israeli hostages as planned. Hamas said it would carry out the ceasefire agreement “according to the specified timetable,” reversing a vow to delay prisoner releases over alleged Israeli violations.
#Feb.13.2025 ×
#washingtonpost.com. × Freed Israeli hostages tell families of torture while held by Hamas. Captors subjected the hostages to physical and psychological torment, according to those recently released under a ceasefire deal.
#Feb.13.2025 ×
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