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Progress has been made in talks between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas on an exchange of hostages, the Israeli Broadcasting Authority has reported.

Majority of the hundreds of kilometres of tunnels dug under the besieged Gaza Strip by Palestinian group Hamas remain untouched and difficult to access for the Israeli military, according to a report.

Palestinian officials and the Hamas movement have lauded provisional measures ordered by the International Court of Justice on Israel's war in the Gaza Strip.

The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees announced it has opened an investigation into some employees Israel alleges were involved in the October 7 attacks, and that it has severed ties with those staff members.

Palestinian movement Hamas has announced its readiness for a potential deal with Israel on the release of women and children still held as hostages in the Gaza Strip, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing Egyptian officials.

The representative of Palestinian resistance movement Hamas in Tehran has hailed South Africa for dragging the Israeli regime before the International Court of Justice in the Hague over its "crimes in the Gaza war."

The Israeli government has offered Hamas a pause in the fighting of up to 60 days so all the remaining captives can be released, Axios has reported, citing two unnamed officials.

A senior official of the Palestinian movement Hamas has warned that more than half a million people face the risk of death from starvation in the besieged Gaza Strip after more than three months of Israeli genocide in the territory.

Washington is seeking from Israel a transition from the wider ground operation in the Gaza Strip to targeted attacks on the leaders of the Hamas movement, US Deputy National Security Advisor Jon Finer has stated.

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected a proposal by Hamas to end the war in the Gaza Strip and release captives in exchange for withdrawing Israeli soldiers from Gaza, releasing prisoners and accepting the armed group’s governance of the besieged enclave.

The Palestinian group Hamas has announced there were “faults” in the October 7 attack it led on southern Israel, but claimed its fighters only targeted Israeli soldiers and people carrying weapons.

A report by US intelligence agencies has concluded that Palestinian group Hamas has lost 20-30 percent of its fighters after months of Israel’s war on the besieged Gaza Strip, meaning it is far from being destroyed.

Two members of the Palestinian movement Hamas have been reportedly killed in an Israeli drone strike targeting a car in southern Lebanon.

Medicine and aid for Palestinians and the Israeli hostages entered the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, according to Dr. Majed Al-Ansari, a spokesperson for the Qatari foreign ministry.

The Israeli military has been “astonished” by the size and quality of the tunnels Hamas has built under the Gaza Strip, according to a report.

A member of the Israeli war cabinet has confessed that Israel has not been able to defeat the Palestinian movement Hamas during its months-long war on the Gaza Strip.

The European Union has added Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar to its “terrorist” sanctions blacklist over the October 7 attacks on Israel.

The Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research says the Israeli war against Hamas has increased support for the Palestinian group in the occupied West Bank and the besieged Gaza Strip.

Hamas has marked the 100th day of the war in Gaza by releasing a clip showing three Israeli hostages held by the Palestinian armed group since its military operation in early October.

The Palestinian movement Hamas says its fighters have destroyed or disabled hundreds of Israeli military vehicles over the 100 days since the start of Tel Aviv's military operation in the Gaza Strip.

A senior official of the Palestinian movement Hamas has stated the region will not witness security and stability unless the Israeli occupation of the entire Palestinian territories ends.

Israeli military advance in northern Gaza continues to face stiff resistance from Palestinian fighters despite extensive Israeli operations in the area.

The Palestinian movement Hamas has condemned US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s claims that Hamas fighters hide behind civilians in the Gaza Strip, stressing the unfounded claims are an attempt to justify Israel’s crimes of genocide against Palestinians in the besieged enclave.

Nearly 90 percent of Arabs view the Hamas-led attack against Israel on 7 October as a "legitimate resistance operation", according to a new poll published by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies on Wednesday.

Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh has urged Muslim countries to supply arms and military equipment to Palestinian fighters as the war in the besieged Gaza Strip rages on.