President-elect Donald Trump‘s victory has prompted officials from Hamas and other Palestinian leaders to call for a ceasefire with Israel, aiming to shift toward a peaceful statehood solution.

3 days ago - Tracking Palestinian, Israeli deaths since the Gaza ceasefire went into effect · “Prime Minister Bibi [Benjamin] Netanyahu doesn’t want to end the war for his own political considerations,” former top Israeli commander Major General Yitzhak Brik told a panel on Israel's Channel 12 recently. “And disarming Hamas will not happen because there is no one who can enforce it.”

2 days ago - ANKARA, Dec 24 (Reuters) - Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Wednesday met with Hamas political bureau officials in Ankara to discuss the ceasefire in Gaza and advancing the agreement to its second phase, a Turkish Foreign Ministry source said.

2 weeks ago - The first phase of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is nearly complete, after a two-month process plagued by delays and finger-pointing.

2 weeks ago - Following the election of Trump as US president in November 2024, it was reported that the new president-elect was striving to reach a ceasefire and hostage release deal before inauguration on 20 January 2025.

January 12, 2024 - This is a call for a unilateral ceasefire and for the U.S. to stop helping Israel. The war can't end until Hamas is erased from existence and the people of Gaza acknowledge Israel's right to even exist. There is no end to the war while the Gazans suffer under the delusion of an Islamic state ...

3 weeks ago - After winning federal elections in February, Merz had said he would invite Netanyahu to Germany despite the ICC warrants, but said on Sunday a visit was not currently under consideration. Netanyahu dismisses the warrants as “trumped-up charges” from a “corrupt prosecutor”. During the first phase of the current ceasefire agreement, Hamas released the last 20 living Israeli hostages in exchange for about 2,000 Palestinian detainees held by Israel, and it has handed over all but one of 28 bodies of hostages killed during the war.

5 days ago - The plan’s first phase, which Israel and Hamas agreed to in the October deal, consists of the initial ceasefire, a limited pullback by the Israel Defense Forces, a hostage-prisoner swap and a surge in humanitarian aid.

October 9, 2025 - Israel and Hamas have reached an agreement for the "first phase" of a plan promoted by President Trump to end the war in Gaza. A ceasefire is expected to go into effect after an Israeli Cabinet vote.

November 10, 2025 - As the first stage of the agreement nears its end, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, met on Monday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his close confidant Ron Dermer in Jerusalem.

November 7, 2024 - Efforts by the United States and Arab mediators Qatar and Egypt have so far failed to arrange a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas that would end the fighting and see the release of Israeli and foreign hostages in Gaza as well as Palestinians ...

In early December 1997, Palestinian ... In May 1999, shortly before Ehud Barak's election as prime minister, Yassin made perhaps his boldest ceasefire proposal, telling the Egyptian al-Ahram ......

November 23, 2025 - The Hamas offices in Doha were established in 2011 at the direct request of the U.S. government in order to keep diplomatic lines with the group open. The Qatari government, along with Egypt, has served as one of the main liaisons the U.S. relies on for regional conflict negotiations. “It was a very clear political message that Netanyahu is not willing to have a ceasefire or any kind of solutions.

October 9, 2025 - Agreeing to the first phase of the deal and to release the hostages forestalls the Israeli operation in Gaza City and enhances Hamas’s standing with regional mediators when subsequent phases of the deal are negotiated. Q2: Did the Trump administration play a decisive role? A2: The Trump administration played an indispensable role in successfully negotiating the agreement. Even prior to President Trump’s inauguration in January 2025, senior officials from his administration were engaged in discussions that led to a temporary ceasefire and hostage release.

October 22, 2025 - Although both sides remain engaged in the cease-fire for now, the foundations of the deal appear unstable and tensions remain high.

3 weeks ago - The ceasefire's second stage also includes the deployment of an international force to secure Gaza and forming a temporary Palestinian government to run day-to-day affairs under the supervision of an international board led by U.S. President Donald Trump. A senior Hamas official on Sunday told The Associated Press the group is ready to discuss "freezing or storing or laying down" its weapons as part of the ceasefire in a possible approach to one of the most difficult issues ahead.

October 29, 2025 - Israel has launched three waves of airstrikes on Gaza since the Trump-brokered ceasefire went into effect.