Hamas said it was ready to negotiate the next phase of the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip after a hostage-prisoner exchange.

Israeli authorities have released 42 people from the seventh and final group of Palestinian prisoners as part of the first stage of the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip.

Israel’s offensive in the West Bank is part of broader plans to expand Zionist settlements and eventually annex the West Bank—first expelling the Palestinians from Area C, assigned by the 1993 Oslo Accords to Israel’s full military control and making up 60 percent of the Palestinian territory.

A major military campaign by Palestinian Authority security forces against militants in the West Bank revealed serious challenges to efforts at imposing order.

As Palestinian inmates released by Israel on Saturday stepped off the buses that took them to the Gaza Strip, some flashed a victory sign and swiftly set fire to sweatshirts they were made to wear

The myth of an Arab “Palestine,” a place that has never existed, has plunged the region into an endless state of war, violence, and self-inflicted deprivation. There’s no legitimate moral, historical, or geopolitical case for creating a Palestinian state. And the sooner everyone comes to terms with this fact, the better it will be.

Palestinian medics say at least six infants have died from hypothermia in the last two weeks in the Gaza Strip, as a U.N. official warned that the Trump administration's suspension of funding to the World Health Organization withheld money for critical operations in the territory.