“Gaza, with its great people and its resilience, will rise again to rebuild what the occupation has destroyed and continue on the path of steadfastness until the occupation is defeated,” Hamas said in a statement after the cease-fire.

Thousands of Palestinians are returning to their homes in the Gaza Strip for the first time since the war erupted nearly 15 months ago and left the area in ruins

Steven Witkoff, who played an important role in brokering the truce between Israel and Hamas, also met with Israel’s prime minister and visited Saudi Arabia.

The scale of destruction in the northern Gaza strip could be seen from southern Israel on Saturday morning as Israel and Hamas are expected to swap more hostages for Palestinian prisoners.

The Hamas militant group on Friday published the names of four hostages it said it would release the following day as part of the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip ... north to the south of the enclave.

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The Hamas militant group has published the names of four hostages it says it will release on Saturday as part of the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. There was no immediate ...

Dozens of hostages held by Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip and hundreds of Palestinians ... thanking the people of South Carolina for their help in delivering him the White House in 2020.

The shallow, round trays were used by enslaved Gullah-Geechee people along South Carolina's coastline to toss rice in the air. Wind would then blow away the chaff, leaving behind the grains.

Mr. Biden spoke during a visit to a church in North Charleston, South Carolina ... aid trucks enter Gaza: U.N. Trucks carrying humanitarian aid entered the Gaza Strip on Sunday (January 19 ...

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Senator Tim Kaine, Democrat of Virginia, quickly condemned the Trump administration’s offer to roughly 2 million federal employees to resign in exchange for pay, saying in a Senate floor speech that the deal was a trick, that the president didn’t have the authority to make the offer and employees who resign may not be paid.

The Israel-Hamas war has devastated the Gaza Strip. Satellite photos offer some sense of the destruction in the territory.