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The Israel Defense Forces continues its intense airstrike and ground campaigns in Gaza with ceasefire talks resuming in Qatar.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken expresses confidence in a near-term Gaza ceasefire and prisoner exchange.

The US president says negotiations to release Israeli hostages held by Hamas and end the war in Gaza are almost complete.

Israeli negotiators attending ceasefire and hostage release talks in Doha have expressed “cautious optimism,” even as some gaps between both sides persist, a source familiar with the matter told CNN.

In the everything-must-go fire sale that's rather predictably characterizing the final days of the Joe Biden administration, it seems that one of the casualties will be the families of Israeli hostages being held in the Gaza Strip.

US President Joe Biden and Israeli PM Netanyahu connected over a phone call as the head of Israel's Mossad foreign intelligence agency, David Barnea, and Biden's top Mideast adviser, Brett McGurk, were both in the Qatari capital Doha.

United States President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have reportedly discussed a potential ceasefire and hostage release deal in Gaza. The two leaders spoke over the phone on Sunday, with Netanyahu updating Biden on the progress of ceasefire talks being mediated in Doha.

US President Joe Biden spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss the progress of ongoing negotiations regarding the ceasefire-hostage deal

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent a delegation of senior officials to Qatar for negotiations on a hostage release and Gaza ceasefire deal, his office said Saturday.

Israel and Hamas ‘on the brink’ of ceasefire and hostage release deal, says Biden: Latest updates - A peace deal would put an end to more than a year of fighting, during which tens of thousands of peo