The negotiations focused on freeing Edan Alexander, the only American Israeli hostage still believed to be alive, and the bodies of four other U.S.-Israeli dual citizens who were kidnapped and taken to Gaza in the October 2023 attack, officials told The New York Times.

Palestinian armed groups on Thursday handed over the bodies of four Israeli hostages to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) team in Khan Younis in southern Gaza Strip, said Palestinian sources.

Mirjana Spoljaric, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), stressed that the ceasefire agreement has been a lifeline for countless

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) warned that the collapse of the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip currently threatens to plunge people back into despair and exacerbate the humanitarian crisis there.

Israel’s cutoff of food, fuel, medicine and other supplies to Gaza’s 2 million people has sent prices soaring and humanitarian groups into overdrive as they try to distribute dwindling stocks to the most vulnerable.