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Four-day pause is set to begin on Friday morning and includes the release of Hamas captives, Palestinian prisoners.

Qatari official tells The Independent that the world must use ‘momentum’ from the truce to end war

There has been a delay in the expected release of some 50 Israeli hostages. The deal is still being finalised in Qatar, where senior Hamas leadership is based. A high-ranking member of Israel's Mossad secret service is there talking to Hamas. The deal, as publicised thus far, involves 50 hostages…

Martin struggled to a season-worst 10th in the penultimate grand prix of the season due to an apparent tyre defect, which affected him from the off last Sunday.

No amount of foreign aid will be enough, a top Qatari official tells The Independent, as Hamas run health ministry puts the number of people killed in Gaza since the conflict began at 14,500

Truce to begin in the morning and 13 people held by Hamas to be freed in the afternoon, Qatari official says.

War can all of sudden turn battle commanders into fastidious lawyers when it comes to terms. Protesters marching in the streets of London may be calling for a ceasefire, but that is not what either side in the Middle East wants to call the minimum four-day halt they have just…

Negotiations to free the hostages held by Hamas hardly ran smoothly

President Biden’s brief sojourn in Tel Aviv marked the start of what has been a high-stakes game of shuttle diplomacy that resulted in a hostage deal, Andrew Feinberg reports

Here’s how the negotiations involving Israel, Hamas, Qatar, the US and Egypt unfolded.