Chen, an Israel Defense Forces staff sergeant, was a combat soldier who "fell during combat in a tank in the battle in Kibbutz Nir Oz on the morning of October 7th, 2023, and was abducted by Hamas," the IDF said on Tuesday. He had been declared dead by Israeli officials in March 2024.

Israeli forces carried out new strikes inside the designated “yellow line” on Friday, despite the ongoing ceasefire framework.

Israel has received the body of deceased hostage Meny Godard from Palestinian militants in Gaza via the Red Cross, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said on Thursday.

Since last month’s cease-fire, Gaza has been divided by a yellow line splitting Hamas-controlled Gaza to the west from Israeli-occupied Gaza to the east. At first, the line was invisible. But after Israeli soldiers repeatedly opened fire on Gazans who crossed it,

Israel continues to violate the ceasefire agreement with repeated strikes and ground incursions across the Gaza Strip.

Yamen Al-Najjar recalls his past life – the days when he went to school and laughed regularly. Today, the 16-year-old lives with his mother in a cramped 6-square-meter room, just large enough to hold a hospital bed he seldom leaves.

NPR Mideast correspondent Daniel Estrin has entered the Gaza Strip for the first time since the war began, but Israel still requires a military escort.

Israel’s longest war is leaving a trail of traumatized soldiers in its wake. Psychologists, soldiers and their families say there are a growing number of fighters suffering from mental illness after two years of conflict with Hamas,

The Israeli army says it shot and killed a Palestinian for approaching the “yellow line” in Gaza, behind which Israeli troops sit, after warplanes launched three air strikes on Beit Lahiya in the northeast.