Some 90 Palestinian detainees have been released as Israel's ceasefire deal with Hamas takes hold. Meanwhile, the World Health Organization has called for aid agencies to be given full access to Gaza.

Israel has started to release 90 Palestinian prisoners and detainees Monday, more than seven hours after three Israeli hostages released from Hamas captivity in Gaza returned to Israel. A large bus carrying dozens of the detainees,

Ramallah, West Bank — The first three hostages were released from Gaza and the first Palestinian prisoners were freed from Israeli custody as the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took hold following 15 months of war, with mixed emotions and more difficult steps ahead over the next six weeks.

A ceasefire in the Gaza Strip took effect on Sunday as Hamas released the first three female hostages it held for 15 months of the devastating war with Israel.

Families of remaining Israeli hostages are waiting for news on their loved ones after three women were reunited with relatives following their release by Hamas on the first day of a ceasefire deal. British Israeli Emily Damari,

JERUSALEM: A fragile ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war was holding Monday, following the dramatic exchange of three hostages for 90 Palestinian prisoners in an agreement aimed at ending more than 15 months of war in Gaza.

Tom Fitzgerald speaks with Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, Israel’s Foreign Ministry Special Envoy about the hostage deal and the release of the hostages.

U.N. humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher said aid agencies have been ... In northern Gaza, where Israel launched its latest offensive, the U.N. has been denied access to deliver food supplies since ...

At least 80 people have been killed by Israeli air strikes on Gaza, it has been reported. A ceasefire and hostage return deal was reached on Wednesday, but has yet to be ratified by the Israeli parliament. According to authorities in Gaza, 81 people have been killed in the last 24 hours – 188 have been injured.

Thousands of Gazans have begun to travel back to the homes they evacuated earlier in the war. Palestinians in Gaza have said they slept peacefully for the first time in more than a year, without the fear of being bombed, following the start of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

One of the Israeli hostages freed on the first day of the Gaza ceasefire said Monday in her first comments since being released that she has “returned to life.

Palestinian health workers say an Israeli strike on a built-up refugee camp in the occupied West Bank has killed two people as a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip entered a third day