INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
(Reuters) - Israel and Hamas agreed to a deal to halt fighting in Gaza and exchange Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners, an official
briefed on the deal told Reuters on Wednesday, opening the way to a possible end to a 15-month war that has upended the Middle East.The
agreement follows months of on-off negotiations brokered by Egyptian and Qatari mediators, with the backing of the United States, and came
20 inauguration of United States President-elect Donald Trump.Israeli troops invaded Gaza after Hamas-led gunmen broke through security
barriers and burst into Israeli communities on Oct
more than 46,000 people, according to Gaza health ministry figures, and left the narrow coastal enclave a wasteland of rubble, with hundreds
of thousands surviving the winter cold in tents and makeshift shelters.As his inauguration approached, Trump repeated his demand that a deal
hostages may ease some of the public anger against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing government over the Oct
Iran-backed proxies in Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen attacking Israel in solidarity with the Palestinians
