ROME (AP) — A delegation of former hostages held by Hamas in Gaza and their relatives met Thursday with Pope Francis and expressed hope that the incoming and outgoing U.S. administrations would work together to bring the remaining hostages home.

Pope Francis met a delegation of Israeli hostages freed by Hamas at the Vatican on Thursday (November 14). Some held pictures of loved ones who remain in captivity.

Israeli airstrikes killed at least 46 people in the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, including 11 at a makeshift cafeteria in an Israeli-declared humanitarian zone, medics said. In Lebanon, warplanes struck Beirut's southern suburbs and killed 18 people elsewhere in the country on Tuesday.

The Palestinian factions aim to create an apolitical committee acceptable to Israel to oversee aid distribution and rebuilding.

Gaza’s largest hospital has become a microcosm of the wider war and the rhetoric around it. Here’s what to know.

Israeli soldiers “found nothing” while searching for a Hamas base they believe is concealed beneath the Al-Shifa hospital, a doctor trapped at the facility said on Friday. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) raided the complex in northern Gaza on Wednesday and have been searching the facility since for what they claim is “well-hidden terrorist