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Israel has formally banned the main United Nations aid agency for Palestinian refugees from operating on its territory despite heavy diplomatic backlash.

U.N. officials vowed Thursday that the agency would continue to deliver services in the occupied Palestinian territories for as long as possible.

Buses transporting freed Palestinian prisoners departed from an Israeli prison on Thursday, following a brief delay caused by the chaotic release of three Israeli hostages and five Thai nationals by G ...

Iman Helles, a displaced mother sheltering in a facility run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees in Gaza, fears that ...

After the chaotic handover in southern Gaza, Zivan Frieden, a spokesman for Israel’s prisons authority, said in a statement ...

Greece offers to provide humanitarian aid to Gaza, after the United States failed to establish a floating supply route on ...

Palestinian groups and Israel are carrying out a third hostage-prisoner exchange under a ceasefire deal. Meanwhile, Israel ...

Legislation that goes into effect on Thursday bars UNRWA from operating in the country. That will affect aid delivery to Gaza and beyond.

Palestinian militant group Hamas on Thursday handed over Israeli woman hostage Agam Berger, a soldier, as a third hostage-prisoner exchange got under way, an AFP journalist reported.Three Israelis and ...

President Donald Trump has invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House next week as the first ...