In the midst of a renewed Israeli military campaign and a U.S. proposal to take ownership of the Gaza Strip, a senior Israeli diplomat has told Newsweek that the country had no plans to govern the war-battered Palestinian territory once Hamas was defeated.

Hostage Families Forum slams expanded operation, says government 'sacrificing the hostages' for the sake of 'territorial gains'

After thousands of Gazans took to the streets in a rare display of defiance against the Hamas terror group, a strategic advisor for a Christian advocacy group believes detailed the reason for the anti-Hamas protests in Gaza and potential paths for peace.

Israel has proposed an extended truce in Gaza in exchange for the return of about half the remaining hostages, Israeli officials said.

Hamas seeks to end the war while maintaining its military control over Gaza, mirroring Hezbollah’s pre-war dominance in Lebanon. Israel must not allow this to happen, even if Egypt pushes for it.

Withdrawing from the Gaza Strip runs counter to the maximalist ideologies of key members of Netanyahu’s government, including some in his own party, Likud. Rather, their stated position is for Israel to remain in control of the enclave and to push as ...

More than 50,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since Israel’s war with Hamas began, the territory’s health ministry said Sunday, a grim milestone for a war with no end in sight as Israel resumes fighting and warns of even tougher days ahead.

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip had little to celebrate on Sunday as they began marking the normally festive Eid al-Fitr holiday with rapidly dwindling food supplies and no end in sight to the Israel-Hamas war that has devastated the territory. Dozens held prayers in the yard of demolished school in the southern town of Khan Younis.