Associated Press video shows people in Gaza running towards moving aid trucks and taking sacks of supplies. Since the ceasefire last month between Hamas and Israel, aid has been entering Gaza. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press.

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By Chronicle Staff Three police officers were killed by Israeli occupation forces in the southern Gaza city of Rafah while distributing aid.  Meanwhile, a shipment of heavy bombs from the United States arrived

Watch live view from Rafah, showing displaced people returning and aid trucks entering Gaza. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has threatened to withdraw from the ceasefire and directed troops

US Secretary of State made no mention of Palestinians in a press conference with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu.

Tal Shoham and Avera Mengistu were the latest hostages to be released by Hamas in Rafah. Both hostages were transferred to Israeli custody and have crossed into the country. Four additional hostages are set to be released in Nuseirat.

The entire people of Israel is moved along with me and embraces you today," he's reported to have told Mengistu on the Israeli government's website. Ethiopian-Israeli Mengistu was captured by Hamas in 2014 and was handed over to the Red Cross alongside Tal Shoham in Rafah,

Three members of the Hamas-run police force were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Rafah while securing aid coming into Gaza, according to Hamas. Their bodies were transported to the European Hospital in Khan Younis where mourners told an NBC News crew that they urge Israel to stick to the ceasefire.

Israeli hostages Averu Mengistu (4th-R) and Tal Shoham (L) are flanked by Hamas fighters as they stand on a stage during their release in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday. TEL AVIV — Israel released two Israeli hostages early Saturday among six to be freed in exchange for more than 600 Palestinian prisoners and detainees in Israeli jails.

Hamas has handed over to the Red Cross the first two of six Israeli hostages due to be freed Saturday under the Israel-Hamas ceasefire. The two hostages -- Tal Shoham, 40, and Avera Mengistu, 39 – were put into Red Cross ambulances after being brought out onto a stage by masked and armed Hamas fighters in front of a crowd in the southern Gaza city of Rafah.

Germany's cabinet approved the deployment of police to two EU civilian missions in the Palestinian territories on Wednesday, including an operation to monitor the border crossing between Gaza and Egypt at Rafah.