Michael Oren, former Israeli ambassador to the U.S., joins NPR's Michel Martin to discuss Israel's security cabinet approving a Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal. The agreement still needs the full cabinet's OK.

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: The meeting comes two days after ... It was announced by Egypt, Qatar and the U.S. and even Hamas back then, but Israel did not confirm it. Netanyahu's office put out a ...

MARTIN: This ceasefire deal is very similar ... OREN: I think two things have happened - one, that Hamas has agreed to some central issues in that negotiation, including letting Israel know ...

So did Hamas. For the first time in a year, the militant group’s armed wing openly paraded through the streets and held public funerals for slain fighters. On war-battered streets crowded with ...

The ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas took hold on Sunday ... Lebanese President Michel Auon received a call from the French President, his office said today, saying that Emmanuel Macron ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced Sunday that an agreement has been reached with Hamas to release additional hostages starting this Thursday, while also allowing ...

The families of Israeli hostages Karina Ariev, Daniella Gilboa, Naama Levy and Liri Albag have been informed that that their daughters, held in Gaza for 475 days, are slated to be freed on ...

Previous Hamas’ videos of the four soldiers’ kidnapping by Hamas on October 7, 2023 had gone viral. The women were dressed in civilian clothes at the time of their taking, including pajamas ...

Hamas has revealed the names of the four Israeli hostages who will be freed on Saturday in the second exchange since the cease-fire deal between the Jewish state and ...

Aaron Boxerman and Patrick Kingsley Reporting from Jerusalem Hamas on Saturday released four female Israeli soldiers held hostage in Gaza, in a carefully choreographed show of force that ...

Hamas released four Israeli hostages in Gaza early Saturday in exchange for 200 Palestinian prisoners to be released later in the day. It was the second release to occur as part of the ceasefire ...

Click here for the latest updates on the Israel-Hamas conflict. Israel and Hamas accused each other of breaching the terms of the ceasefire deal on Saturday after four more hostages were released from Gaza. The female Israeli soldiers were released on ...