2 weeks ago - Saturday's attack happened on the Palestinian-controlled side of the so-called Yellow Line which has divided Gaza since an unstable US-led ceasefire came into effect on 10 October. Israeli forces control the area to the east of the line, which includes just over half of the Gaza Strip. The first phase of US president Donald Trump's 20-point plan for peace in the region required the return of all 20 living and 28 dead hostages taken in the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023.

"The agreement is over and [Hamas] is ready to fight," sources told Saudi state-owned Al Arabiya, adding that the ceasefire must be mutual and that "Gaza will not become another Lebanon."

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.”

3 days ago - The remains of two more hostages were handed over by Hamas to Israel. Forty-five more Palestinian bodies were received by the Gaza Health Ministry from Israel, bringing the total number of bodies returned to Gaza according to the ceasefire agreement to 90.

4 days ago - Qatar’s prime minister said last month that “violations are happening every day” but that he continues to work closely with other partners “in order to make sure that the ceasefire stays intact.” · Israel and Hamas agreed to the first phase of a multi-step peace deal in October that saw Hamas agree to release Israeli hostages in exchange for a ceasefire that has largely held despite bursts of hostilities between the two parties in the Gaza Strip.

4 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 - 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.

2 weeks ago - Israel and Hamas have repeatedly accused each other of truce violations. Israeli airstrikes and shootings in Gaza have killed at least 386 Palestinians since the ceasefire took hold, according to Palestinian health officials.

3 days ago - However, we are deeply concerned that the Israeli response to violations by Hamas have been severe and disproportionate, resulting in massive loss of life. In fact, since the start of the current ceasefire agreement on October 10, 2025, at least 356 Palestinians have been killed and more than ...

2 weeks ago - Hamas has not identified an overall chief since Israel killed the group's head, Yehya Al-Sinwar, in 2024. Instead, the group has since been led by a five-man high leadership council, of which Hayya is a member. Since the ceasefire, Israeli forces remain in control of the depopulated eastern half of Gaza, while the militant group has reasserted its control over the western half, where nearly all of the enclave's more than 2 million people live in the ruins.

2 weeks ago - During the first stage, Hamas released 33 hostages (mostly men 50 or over and women), in exchange for Israel releasing 30–50 Palestinians (starting with children and women) for every Israeli released. During the first stage, Israel allowed "sufficient" quantities of humanitarian aid, allowed displaced Palestinians to return to their homes and started to make a phased withdrawal from Gaza. During the first stage of the ceasefire, talks were supposed to begin between both parties for a more permanent cessation of hostilities.

1 day ago - JERUSALEM (AP) — An explosive device detonated in Gaza on Wednesday, injuring one Israeli soldier and prompting Israel to accuse Hamas of violating the U.S.-brokered ceasefire. It was the latest incident to threaten the tenuous truce that has held since Oct.

Full of false statistics, odd errors, and AI-like repetitions, the new document can easily be written off as a joke. However, it contains some red flags for the future of the Gaza ceasefire.

3 weeks ago - Hamas has found and returned all ... or any Israeli-backed entity. The UN resolution in November suggested the ISF could lead the disarmament, but none of the countries supposed to be contributing troops, such as Indonesia, Azerbaijan or Pakistan, ...

3 weeks ago - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel and Hamas are “very shortly expected to move into the second phase of the ceasefire,” after Hamas returns the remains of the last hostage held in Gaza.

1 week ago - The ceasefire halted Israel's push to fully occupy all of Gaza and shelved plans by some far-right members of the cabinet to displace Palestinians outside the territory. A picture taken from a distance shows a damaged building (left) in the compound housing members of Palestinian militant group Hamas' political bureau, which was targeted the previous day by an Israeli strike in Doha, Qatar, on Sept.