Millions of Palestinians are marking the 78th anniversary of the Nakba.

In Gaza, some Palestinian children are finding respite from the harsh realities of life in breakdancing.

Young Palestinian artists in Gaza have staged an impromptu exhibit to show the world the impact of war and the fragile ceasefire.

The United Arab Emirates has announced it will leave OPEC and the OPEC+ group, effective May 1.

Palestinian authorities say local elections in Gaza and the West Bank are a success and mark a step toward a long-delayed presidential election.

Palestinians have voted in local elections, the first in two decades in Gaza and the first in the Israeli occupied West Bank since the start of the war in Gaza.

At least 10 Palestinians were injured Sunday night in attacks in the occupied West Bank by Israeli settlers, who rampaged through nearby villages after holding a funeral for a settler killed in a car crash a day earlier.

Palestinian hospital officials say Israeli airstrikes hit a home and a police vehicle in central Gaza and killed at least 12 Palestinians, including two boys, a woman pregnant with twins and eight police officers.

Israel’s top court will allow international aid groups to keep operating in the Gaza Strip and other Palestinian territories.

Doctors Without Borders says it has suspended some operations at one of Gaza's largest functioning hospitals after patients and staff said they witnessed armed, masked men in parts of the compound.

Two Palestinian men riding bicycles were killed in an Israeli drone strike Tuesday, hospital officials said, as deadly violence continued in Gaza despite an October ceasefire.

The Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt has reopened after a two-day closure.

As Israeli strikes killed two dozen Palestinians on Wednesday, many in Gaza wondered what had become of the ceasefire reached between Israel and Hamas in October.

Three women from the first group of Palestinians to enter Gaza through the newly reopened Rafah crossing told The Associated Press that Israeli troops blindfolded, handcuffed and interrogated them for hours after they crossed.

Palestinians have gathered at Gaza’s Rafah crossing with Egypt, hoping to pass through after it reopened.

A dozen Palestinian returnees were allowed into Gaza and a few medical evacuees exited to Egypt Monday after the long-awaited reopening of the Rafah border crossing was marred by delays.

Palestinians in Gaza are watching with hope and impatience as workers lay the groundwork to reopen the territory’s Rafah border crossing with Egypt, its lifeline to the world.

Israel says it will reopen Gaza’s border crossing with Egypt over the weekend.

A Gaza Health Ministry official says Israel has turned over the bodies of 15 Palestinians just days after recovering the remains of the last Israeli hostage.

Israel is marking the end of a painful chapter after the return of the remains of the last hostage held in Gaza.

Israel says the remains of the final hostage in Gaza have been recovered, clearing the way for the next phase of the ceasefire that stopped the Israel-Hamas war.

Two Iranian-backed militias in the Middle East are signaling their readiness to launch new attacks.

Top U.S. envoys have met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, urging him to advance the ceasefire in Gaza.

President Donald Trump launched his Board of Peace on Thursday to lead efforts to maintain a ceasefire in Gaza.

Grim humanitarian conditions remain in Gaza months after the ceasefire paused two years of war between Israel and Hamas militants.

The White House has released the names of some of the leaders who will play a role in overseeing next steps in Gaza.

The United States says it’s moving into the next phase of a Gaza ceasefire plan involving disarming Hamas, rebuilding the war-ravaged territory and establishing the group of Palestinian experts that will administer daily affairs.

Strong winds have caused at least four deaths in Gaza as walls collapsed onto tents in the coastal territory.

Hamas says it will dissolve its government in Gaza once a Palestinian technocratic leadership committee takes over as part of a U.S.-brokered peace plan.

Hospital officials say an Israeli strike in Gaza hit a tent housing displaced people, killing a 5-year-old girl and her uncle.

Israel has revoked the licenses of more than three dozen humanitarian organizations, and now those groups are grappling with how that will affect aid operations in Gaza.

A grandmother and her 5-year-old grandson have burned to death in Gaza when their tent caught fire.

Winter rain has lashed the Gaza Strip and flooded camps with ankle-deep puddles as Palestinians displaced by war try to stay dry in fraying tents.

Barefoot children played on chilly sand as Gaza’s thousands of displaced people prepared threadbare tents for another round of winter rain.

An explosive device has detonated in Gaza and wounded one Israeli soldier, prompting Israel to accuse Hamas of violating the U.S.-brokered ceasefire.

The world’s leading authority on food crises says the spread of famine’s been averted in the Gaza Strip.

Israel’s military says troops fired a mortar shell into a Palestinian residential area in the Gaza Strip, in the latest incident to rock the tenuous ceasefire with Hamas.

Aid deliveries into Gaza are falling short of the amount agreed upon in the U.S.-brokered ceasefire.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel and Hamas are expected to move into the second phase of their ceasefire soon.

An international body tasked with governing the Gaza Strip under the next phase of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire is expected to be announced by the end of the year.

Israeli and Thai officials say remains that militants in Gaza handed to Israel were those of a Thai agricultural worker killed during the attack that started the war two years ago.

Israel says it launched an airstrike in southern Gaza in retaliation for an attack by militants earlier in the day that wounded five Israeli soldiers.

Israel says it has received human remains that Palestinian militants handed over to the Red Cross, but it is not immediately clear if they are one of three hostages remaining in the Gaza Strip.

The U.S.- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, set up to distribute aid to Gaza as an alternative to the United Nations but which Palestinians said endangered the lives of civilians as they tried to get food, has said it will shutter operations.

More than 60 delegations have met in Brussels to discuss reconstruction and governance in Gaza, focusing on reforming the Palestinian Authority.

The Israeli military has carried out airstrikes in southern Lebanon, targeting what it claims are Hezbollah weapons storage facilities.

Parts of Gaza's huge Muwasi tent camp are struggling after winter's first major rainfall.

Israel has returned the bodies of 15 Palestinians to Gaza, according to officials at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis.

A U.S. proposal to provide a United Nations mandate for an international stabilization force in Gaza is facing opposition from Russia, China and some Arab countries.

Israel says militants have handed over one of the last four remaining hostages taken during the 2023 attack that launched the war in Gaza.

Israel's president says authorities must take decisive action to stop “shocking and serious” Jewish settler violence against Palestinian civilians and Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank.

Yemen’s Houthi rebels are signaling they’ve stopped their attacks against Israel and shipping in the Red Sea as a shaky ceasefire holds in the Gaza Strip.

Israel has confirmed it has received the remains of Hadar Goldin, a soldier killed in Gaza in 2014.

Gaza health officials say over 69,000 Palestinians have died in the Israel-Hamas war.

The Israeli military says Hamas has handed over remains believed to be of a deceased hostage to the Red Cross in Gaza.

Skeletons are neighbors for some Palestinians in Gaza who found nowhere else but cemeteries to shelter from the war.

Israel says the remains of three people Hamas handed over to the Red Cross do not belong to any hostages.

The Red Cross says it has transferred the unidentified remains of three people to Israel but an Israeli military official says they were still being examined and may not be those of missing hostages.

Hospital officials in Gaza say that Israel has handed over the bodies of 30 Palestinians.

Israel’s military says the ceasefire is back on in Gaza after it carried out heavy airstrikes overnight across the Palestinian territory.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the army to carry out “powerful strikes” in Gaza.

Israel’s foreign minister says his government will not allow Turkish troops to take part in a future international peace force in Gaza.

Hamas says it is expanding its search for the remains of hostages still left in Gaza.

European Union leaders are seeking a more active role in Gaza and the occupied West Bank after being sidelined from a U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance has criticized Israel’s parliament vote on West Bank annexation.

The International Court of Justice has ruled that Israel must allow the U.N. aid agency, UNRWA, to provide humanitarian assistance in Gaza.

Israel’s military says Palestinian militants in Gaza have handed over another body of a hostage.

Gaza's fragile ceasefire is facing its first major test.

Israel says Hamas has handed over “two coffins of deceased hostages” from Gaza.

The Israel-Hamas war ceasefire has provided some respite for Palestinians in Gaza after two years of killings and destruction.

Israel has received the coffin of a missing hostage handed over to the Red Cross from Hamas.

Israel’s National Institute of Forensic Medicine has identified the remains of two more hostages returned from Gaza, as officials and families warned Hamas to hand over the bodies of those still held.

Israel received the remains of two more hostages Wednesday, hours after the Israeli military said that one of the bodies previously turned over was not that of a hostage.

Israel has received the remains of two more hostages after they were transferred by the Red Cross from Hamas.

The tenuous ceasefire in Gaza is holding after the release of hostages and Palestinian prisoners and detainees, but uncertainties remain.

President Donald Trump is hailing the ceasefire deal he brokered between Israel and Hamas as the end of the war in Gaza and start of rebuilding the devastated territory.

Across Israel, it's a day of joy and tears with families, loved ones and friends waiting anxiously as Hamas began releasing the last living hostages held captive for over two years in the Gaza Strip.

Israel and Hamas have taken a significant step in the ceasefire agreement for the Gaza war by releasing hostages and prisoners.

Two officials tell The Associated Press that food distribution sites run by the controversial U.S.-Israel backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation are being shut down under the terms of the ceasefire deal.

Israel says it has received 20 hostages released by Hamas while Israel has released nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners as the ceasefire in Gaza held amid a critical day for all sides and the region.

Tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians are returning to neighborhoods in Gaza as a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is in its second day.

Tens of thousands of Palestinians displaced by the war in Gaza have started moving north toward their homes, or what remains of them, after a ceasefire agreement came into effect.

Tens of thousands of Palestinians headed back to the heavily destroyed northern Gaza Strip as a U.S.-brokered ceasefire came into effect on Friday.

The United States is sending about 200 troops to Israel to help support and monitor the ceasefire deal in Gaza as part of a team that includes partner nations, nongovernmental organizations and private-sector players.

Palestinians in Gaza have welcomed the news of an agreement on the first phase of a peace plan between Israel and Hamas.

Israel’s Cabinet has approved President Donald Trump’s plan for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and the release of all the remaining hostages held by Hamas, a key step toward ending a ruinous two-year war that has destabilized the Middle East.

President Donald Trump says Israel and Hamas have agreed to the “first Phase” of his peace plan to pause fighting and release at least some hostages and prisoners.

The Israeli military has intercepted a nine-boat flotilla in the Mediterranean Sea trying to break Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza and detained scores of activists on board.

Peace talks between Israel and Hamas have resumed in Egypt.

It’s been two years since thousands of Hamas-led militants poured into southern Israel after a surprise barrage of rockets.

Israelis are mourning the dead and fearing for the remaining hostages as they mark two years since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack plunged the region into a devastating war.

Nearly two years after the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks in Israel and the county’s ensuing invasion of the Gaza Strip, Americans are more divided on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict than they were before the war – and concerns are mounting about the safety of Jewish communities at home.

Palestinians in Gaza are anxiously following indirect talks between Israeli and Hamas officials in Egypt.

Israeli and Hamas officials are holding indirect talks in an Egyptian resort on a U.S. peace plan for Gaza.

Israeli and Hamas officials launched indirect talks on a U.S.-drafted peace plan to end the war in Gaza.

Israel and Hamas are preparing for indirect negotiations in Egypt on Monday as hopes are rising for a possible ceasefire in Gaza.

Minutes after journalists converged on the site of an Israeli strike in Gaza, cameraman Ibrahim Qannan began a live broadcast.

Israel's prime minister says he hopes to announce the release of all hostages from Gaza “in the coming days” as Israel and Hamas prepare for indirect talks in Egypt on a new U.S. plan to end the war.

U.S. President Donald Trump has ordered Israel to stop bombing the Gaza Strip after Hamas said it had accepted some elements of his plan to end the nearly two-year war and return all the remaining hostages taken in the Oct. 7, 2023, attack.

The Netherlands' highest court has ordered the government to reevaluate a license to export F-35 fighter jet parts to Israel.