Hamas to release second group of Israeli hostages after hours-long delay
Qatari and Egyptian mediators say Hamas agreed to release 13 Israelis and seven foreigners on Saturday in exchange for 39 Palestinians imprisoned by Israel.
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Qatari and Egyptian mediators say Hamas agreed to release 13 Israelis and seven foreigners on Saturday in exchange for 39 Palestinians imprisoned by Israel.
The planned four-day cease-fire is part of an extendable deal that calls for Hamas to free 50 hostages and Israel to release 150 Palestinian prisoners.
CBS Philadelphia talked with a family in Ardmore holding onto hope that their grandmother will soon be on her way home.
Philadelphia police had Market Street in Center City blocked at Broad Street while there was a pro-Palestine rally across City Hall near the Clothespin sculpture.
The first group of hostages taken captive by Hamas in the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel were released from Gaza hours after the initial four-day cease-fire in the war between Israel and Hamas took effect Friday morning.
Under the agreement reached in Qatar, Hamas is incentivized to release captives that Israel accuses it of seizing during its rampage across southern Israel.
A short-term cease-fire between Israel and Hamas that will allow for the release of hostages and for aid to enter Gaza had originally been expected to begin Thursday.
The Israeli government said early Wednesday that it had approved a deal that would see 50 hostages held in Gaza released and a 4-day cease-fire observed.
Monday's strike was the 66th attack against American-affiliated bases in Iraq and Syria since Oct. 17, Pentagon officials said.
Gaza's Hamas-run Health Ministry says Israeli forces are closing in on second facility in the Palestinian enclave as thousands evacuate Al-Shifa hospital.
Jared Armstrong, a Philadelphia native who plays professional basketball in Israel, ran drills inside the gymnasium at the Politz Day School in Cherry Hill.
Armstrong, a professional basketball player from Philly who escaped the war in Israel, is making every second count, despite the timeout on the court.
"Many areas of difference that previously existed have been narrowed," a top national security adviser to President Biden said Sunday.
Patients, staff and displaced people left Gaza's largest hospital, health officials said, leaving behind only a skeleton crew to care for those too sick to move.
A group of pro-Palestine supporters gathered outside City Hall Friday before starting to march east on Market Street.
The member of the Colonial School Board is now apologizing for the post she made on the Israel-Hamas war.
The Philadelphia Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations and local faith leaders led funeral prayers for civilians killed in Gaza to demand a cease-fire.
"If they were [there], they were taken out," Netanyahu told CBS News.
Biden calls for Gaza hospitals to be protected as Israeli troops surround the biggest medical facility, and infants' lives are caught in the middle of the war with Hamas.
Four-thousand people from Philadelphia area heading to Washington, D.C. for rally on National Mall in support of Israel.
They're headed to D.C. with a message they want to send to the world.
According to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry, the death toll in Gaza has topped 11,000.
A cease-fire would be possible only if the more than 200 hostages held by militants in Gaza are released, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a televised address.
Healthcare workers called the gathering the "Shut it down for Palestine" protest.
On Thursday evening, dozens gathered to protest in support of Palestinians caught in the Israel-Hamas war outside Philadelphia City Hall.
