Khalil al-Hayya’s televised remarks were delivered from Qatar on Wednesday just hours after a long-awaited and widely celebrated cease-fire deal was reached between Israel and Hamas.

Aaron Boxerman Israel’s cease-fire agreement with Hamas will go into effect on Sunday, according to Qatar’s Foreign Ministry and the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel.

It came after a Hamas source said the group’s leader, Khalil Al Hayya, had delivered approval for the ceasefire agreement to mediators in Qatar. Earlier, US president Joe Biden and Egyptian ...

The proposed second phase would end the war in Gaza JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Thirty-three Israeli hostages are expected to be released from Hamas, mediators announced, through an emerging ceasefire ...

Multiple sources have told NBC News that Israel and Hamas have reached a ceasefire deal to pause the fighting in Gaza, eventually releasing dozens of hostages taken during the Oct. 7 attacks.

Hamas and Israel reached a ceasefire and hostage release deal Wednesday following more than 15 months of war that has laid waste to the Gaza Strip and divided Israelis. Israel’s government needs ...

The deal needs to be ratified before it can go into effect. Israel and Hamas have reached a ceasefire agreement to end over 15 months of fighting -- with a brief pause in November 2023 -- and ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday accused Hamas of reneging on parts of a ceasefire and hostage release agreement announced the day before. In a statement, Netanyahu said his ...

Israel-Hamas ceasefire agreed to "in principle," officials say 02:08 A draft deal for a ceasefire in Gaza and hostage release has been agreed to in principle and, if all goes well, will be ...

Israel launched the war following the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023, when militants killed 1,200 people and took more than 250 hostages back to Gaza, according to Israeli tallies.