The Rafah crossing has been shuttered for over eight months before as part of the cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas.

Khamis and Ahmad Imarah knew they wouldn’t find much more than rubble when returning to their home in northern Gaza. But they had to go. Their father and brother are still buried under the debris, more than a year after their home was struck by Israeli forces.

Thousands of Palestinians are returning to the northern Gaza Strip Monday as part of the cease-fire and hostage release deal between Israel and Hamas.

Palestinian families have been displaced from the northern Gaza Strip since October 2023 when the Israel-Hamas war erupted.

Tens of thousands of Palestinians streamed into the most heavily destroyed part of the Gaza Strip as Israel lifted its closure of the north for the first time since the early weeks of the 15-month war with Hamas in accordance with a fragile ceasefire.

Even before the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas was fully in place, Palestinians in the war-battered Gaza Strip began to return to the remains of the homes they had evacuated during the 15-month war KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip -- Even before the ...

WASHINGTON — Even before the first phase is completed, the fragile cease-fire agreement that has paused 15 months of war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas faces increasingly long odds of lasting ...

RAFAH, Gaza Strip — For nearly 16 months, Israeli airstrikes pounded the Gaza Strip, flattening entire neighborhoods and leveling tens of thousands of structures. A ceasefire agreement that ...

President Trump indicated Sunday that the way to help the situation in Gaza is to “clean out the whole thing.” Aboard Air Force One, Trump said Gaza is a “real mess,” after the Palestinian

Netanyahu’s office also said Israel will allow Palestinians to return to the northern part of the Gaza Strip beginning Monday morning under the agreement with Hamas. Netanyahu reiterated that ...

The Gaza Strip now has the highest number of child amputees per capita anywhere in the world. The ceasefire will allow UNICEF to reach more children in need. A boy smiles as he tries out his new ...

Israel opened a corridor into the north of the Gaza Strip on Monday, 48 hours later than initially planned. It blamed the delay on Hamas, saying the militant group breached the terms of the ...