Terror group seeks amendments regarding 'US guarantees, timing of hostage release, delivery of aid, withdrawal of Israeli forces'; Israel says it sees the edits as a rejection

White House envoy Steve Witkoff said in a statement on Saturday that Hamas' response to his ceasefire and hostage deal proposal is "totally unacceptable and only takes us backward." Why it matters: Hamas didn't accept Witkoff's proposal as a basis for negotiations and demanded numerous changes that brought the negotiations once again to a deadlock.

Hamas says it has submitted its response to a US ceasefire proposal presented earlier this week. | ITV National News

Ruby Chen discusses the war in Gaza, the fate of his son and the negotiations by the U.S. and Israel to free the remaining hostages.

Adam Boehler gave a full-throated defense of the direct talks between Hamas and the United States. When news emerged in March that the United States was holding direct talks with Hamas, the American envoy in charge of those unprecedented negotiations received a tornado of blowback.

Thousands gather in Tel Aviv as Israel nears 600 days since the October 7 massacre, survivor Naama Levy recounts the horrors of captivity and the fear still haunting those left behind. 'They’re there,

Fighter jets dropped 50 bombs in 30 seconds on tunnel system running under European Hospital, killing group's most-senior official in Gaza, along with other top military commanders

The early success of the American-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation-run aid centers has the ability to significantly dent Hamas’s control over food distribution in the coastal enclave, The Jerusalem Post learned Friday.