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JERUSALEM — Early on Thursday, Israel began releasing more than 600 Palestinian prisoners, with dozens returned to the occupied West Bank and Gaza, where they were met by jubilant crowds.Hamas has handed over what it says are the bodies of four Israeli hostages from Gaza, in exchange for the hundreds of Palestinian prisoners. It will be the final exchange of the first phase of the ceasefire deal, which is due to end on Saturday.Israel is testing DNA samples to confirm they are the remains of Shlomo Mansour, 86, Ohad Yahalomi, 50, Tsachi Idan, 50, and Itzik Elgarat, 69, all of whom were taken by Hamas in the 7 October 2023 attacks.Israel is yet to confirm the results of DNA tests carried out on the four bodies returned as part of the exchange.Initial tests were expected to happen close to...
February 27, 2025
Israel releases Palestinian prisoners after Hamas hands over bodies of four hostages
February 26, 2025
Israel and Hamas strike hostage exchange deal, keeping ceasefire intact
GAZA — Six babies have died from hypothermia in Gaza since Sunday, according to health care officials in the strip, who warn there will be more such deaths unless more aid enters the enclave.Dr. Saeed Salah, the medical director of the Patient’s Friends Benevolent Society Hospital (PFBS), northern Gaza, warned of a “disaster” in the rising number of babies suffering from hypothermia, as they try to survive winter conditions in the strip.In the past two weeks, eight babies with hypothermia were admitted to the medical facility in Gaza City, said Dr. Salah. Of those, three were admitted to the intensive care unit, and three others died “within hours” of arrival.Then on Tuesday, a fourth baby who was just 69 days old died overnight, Dr. Salah added. Further south, two other babies...
February 26, 2025
Six babies die of hypothermia in Gaza, health officials say
February 25, 2025
Israel denies entry to two EU lawmakers
February 25, 2025
Hamas says no Gaza ceasefire talks unless Israel releases prisoners
February 24, 2025
EU lifts sweeping energy, transport sanctions on Syria
February 24, 2025
Tens of thousands join mass funeral for slain Hezbollah leader Nasrallah
February 24, 2025
Syria plans to erase Queen Zenobia from history books
February 21, 2025
Netanyahu takes aim at West Bank after bus explosions near Tel Aviv
TEL AVIV — One of four bodies returned from Gaza to Israel on Thursday is not hostage Shiri Bibas, as claimed by Hamas, the Israeli military said.The news that Shiri Bibas, 33, and her two sons, Ariel and Kfir, who would now be aged five and two, were dead triggered an outpouring of grief in Israel.The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has informed the Bibas family that the bodies of her sons have been identified after their remains were given to Israel by Hamas on Thursday.But the third body was not that of their mother, the IDF says.It demanded the return of her body along with the other remaining hostages. Hamas has not yet commented on Israel's claim."During the identification process, it was determined that the additional body received is not that of Shiri Bibas, and no match was...
February 21, 2025
Body returned from Gaza is not Bibas mother, Israeli military says
