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News Articles: Israel-Hamas war

Friends and relatives of Israeli hostages held captive since the October 7, 2023 attacks by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip, stand behind a banner bearing their portraits during a demonstration calling for action to secure their release in front of the Israeli Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv on Tuesday.

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  • Middle East

Hamas says it's willing to release the five American hostages in Gaza

Hamas, the militant group the U.S. has labeled as terrorists, says it's willing to release the one living American hostage and bodies of four others it's held in Gaza since the 2023 attacks in Israel.

March 14, 2025
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By:
  • Russell Lewis
Supporters of Mahmoud Khalil rally outside the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan on March 12, 2025.

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  • National

Federal judge hears challenge to Mahmoud Khalil's detention

The Trump administration has accused Khalil of engaging in anti-Semitic activity and support of Hamas. The administration wants Khalil deported. But he's a legal permanent resident, and his attorneys deny any involvement with the terrorist group.

March 12, 2025
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By:
  • Sergio Martínez-Beltrán and
  • Adrian Florido
Ashraf Zughayer (center), a Palestinian who was released from Israeli prison during a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, hugs his family in their home in Kfur Aqab, East Jerusalem, on Jan. 25.

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  • Middle East

Palestinians freed in the ceasefire say Israeli forces harass them and their families

Several Palestinian prisoners and detainees freed during this ceasefire deal have been harassed by Israeli forces after their release, their homes raided or their family members arrested.

March 06, 2025
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By:
  • Kat Lonsdorf
Israeli-Russian hostage Sasha Trupanov (second right) and fellow captive, Israeli-American Sagui Dekel-Chen (second left), stand on stage next to Palestinian militants during their handover to a Red Cross team in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Feb. 15, as part of the sixth hostage-prisoner exchange between Israel and Hamas. Hamas says it has held direct talks with the U.S. about hostages.

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  • Middle East

In a policy shift, U.S. and Hamas say they're in direct talks on hostages

A Hamas official tells NPR that the United States has held direct talks with the Palestinian militant group over the release of several American-Israeli dual citizens taken hostage during the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks in Israel.

March 05, 2025
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By:
  • Abu Bakr Bashir and
  • Kat Lonsdorf
Pro-Palestinian students hold up Palestinian flags during UMass Amherst graduation ceremonies in May 2024. They left the graduation event in protest.

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  • National

Foreign students say the threat of Trump's executive orders is getting real

President Trump warned international students that if they support groups the U.S. deems terrorist organizations, "we will find you, and we will deport you." It's left many student activists anxious.

March 03, 2025
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By:
  • Tovia Smith
From left: Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal and Yuval Abraham pose with their Oscar awards for best documentary for the film <em>No Other Land</em> in the press room at the 97th Academy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday.

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  • Movies

Israel's culture minister calls a Palestinian-Israeli film's Oscar a 'sad moment'

The Oscar documentary win by the movie No Other Land is garnering very different reactions in Israel and the West Bank.

March 03, 2025
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin,
  • Itay Stern,
  • and 1 more
Mourners gather around the convoy carrying the coffins of slain hostages Shiri Bibas and her two children, Ariel and Kfir, during their funeral procession in Rishon Lezion, Israel on Wednesday.

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  • Middle East

Israelis hold a funeral procession for Shiri Bibas and her two sons killed in Gaza

Crowds gathered in Israel for the funeral procession of the Bibas family, a mother and two young sons killed while being held hostage in Gaza. The story of their killing has enraged Israelis, and Israeli government representatives were not invited to the funeral.

February 26, 2025
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin and
  • Itay Stern
Israeli hostages Sagui Dekel-Chen, Alexander "Sasha" Trupanov and Yair Horn were named by Hamas Friday to be released the following day.

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  • Middle East

The next Israeli hostages Hamas will release include U.S. and Russian nationals

Hamas says it will release three hostages on Saturday, resolving a dispute with Israel that threatened to derail the ceasefire. In exchange, Israel will free dozens of Palestinians from jail.

February 14, 2025
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin and
  • Kat Lonsdorf
President Trump walks with King Abdullah II of Jordan at the White House, on June 25, 2018, in Washington.

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  • World

Jordan's King Abdullah heads to the White House as Trump pushes a Gaza takeover plan

It is expected to be one of the toughest meetings of the king's quarter-century reign.

February 11, 2025
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By:
  • Jane Arraf
Released hostage Ohad Ben Ami draped in an Israeli flag arrives at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center - Ichilov Hospital by helicopter, on Feb. 8, in Tel Aviv, Israel.

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  • Middle East

Hamas delays the next hostage release, trading blame with Israel for breaking the deal

Hamas is delaying the release of the next group of Israeli hostages, accusing Israel of preventing aid and Palestinians from returning home in Gaza. Israel said Hamas is violating the ceasefire.

February 10, 2025
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin and
  • Kat Lonsdorf
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu makes statements at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Sunday, ahead of his visit to Washington, D.C., where he will meet with President Trump this week.

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  • World

Trump has a deal for Netanyahu when they meet Tuesday. Will he take it?

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be the first foreign leader to visit the White House since President Trump's return to office, in a crucial meeting for the future of the Middle East.

February 03, 2025
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin
Vehicles with the International Committee of the Red Cross arrive, while Palestinian militants and civilians stand by, for the release of Israeli hostage Agam Berger in Jabalia, Gaza Strip, Thursday.

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  • World

3 Israeli and 5 Thai hostages are freed in Gaza in exchange for Palestinian prisoners

Three more Israeli and five Thai hostages have been released by Palestinian militants from captivity and returned to Israel, after being held for more than 15 months in Gaza.

January 30, 2025
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By:
  • Kat Lonsdorf and
  • Daniel Estrin
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One as he travels from Las Vegas to Miami, on Saturday.

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  • Politics

Trump wants Jordan and Egypt to accept more refugees to 'just clean out' Gaza

President Donald Trump said Saturday he'd like to see Jordan, Egypt and other Arab nations increase the number of Palestinian refugees they are accepting to "just clean out" the war-torn area.

January 26, 2025
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By:
  • The Associated Press

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  • Middle East

33 hostages are expected to be released by Hamas as part of a ceasefire with Israel

There are men, women and children on the list of 33 to be released from Gaza. Two are U.S. citizens. Israel is set to free hundreds of prisoners in exchange for them.

January 19, 2025
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By:
  • NPR Staff
Edan Alexander

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  • Middle East

These are the U.S. citizens held hostage in Gaza

Seven of the nearly 100 hostages held in Gaza are U.S. citizens, several of whom are confirmed dead.

January 18, 2025
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  • NPR Staff
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