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Israel says this week's deadly blitz was just the beginning if Hamas does not release hostages.

NPR's Leila Fadel asks veteran Israeli hostage negotiator and peace activist Gershon Baskin about how the country is reacting to the resumption of fighting in Gaza.

Israel has launched a new ground offensive in Gaza after it broke the nearly two-month-long ceasefire with Hamas. On Tuesday, a series of airstrikes killed more than 400 Palestinians in the territory.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks with Diana Buttu, a human rights lawyer and former Palestinian peace negotiator, about the collapse of the ceasefire in Gaza.

Israel says it ended the two-month ceasefire when it launched Tuesday's airstrikes in Gaza which killed more than 400 people and injured hundreds more.

NPR's Leila Fadel asks Mosab Abu Toha, a poet from Gaza, about his family's experience in northern Gaza, where the Israeli military is intensifying its ground operation.

The deadline for the start of a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip passed as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Hamas had provided the names of the three hostages it was set to release on Sunday.

After meetings in Israel, Secretary of State Marco Rubio is in Saudi Arabia to push President Trump's plan for Gaza and to meet with Russian counterparts on steps to ending the war in Ukraine.

New reports show that the U.S. military effort to provide aid to Gaza with a floating pier became a desperate race against time — and led to one soldier's death.

Two back-to-back Israeli airstrikes in northern Gaza killed at least nine people on Saturday, according to Gaza civil defense. Witnesses say several of those killed were aid workers and journalists.

It's Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's second visit to the White House since President Trump took office this year, and comes as Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza hits the 18-month mark.