2 hours ago - Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to tell Donald Trump on Monday that Hamas must return the remains of the last Israeli hostage left in Gaza before the next stages of the stalled ceasefire can be implemented, Israeli officials and analysts say.

2 hours ago - Donald Trump repeated his call for Hamas to disarm on Monday before heading into a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and suggested that he would be open to supporting another Israeli attack on Iran.

5 days ago - On October 8, Trump announced that Israel and Hamas had reached an agreement to begin the first phase of the deal. Under this phase, all living hostages were to be released in exchange for 2,000 Palestinian prisoners, including 250 serving life sentences, within 72 hours of the withdrawal of ...

4 hours ago - The Trump administration wants to see the ceasefire progress to its second phase in January, whereby a Palestinian technocratic government would be established alongside the deployment of an international security force, Hamas would disarm, Israeli troops would withdraw, and the reconstruction of the devastated territory would begin.

11 hours ago - Trump is expected to turn his attention Monday from a war threatening post-World War II European security in Ukraine to solidifying one of the major foreign policy victories of his first year in office — the ceasefire in Gaza. Netanyahu headed to the US on Sunday with Washington increasingly impatient to press ahead with the critical second phase of the ceasefire deal that ended large-scale fighting between Hamas and Israel in October.

3 weeks ago - Left: President Donald Trump’s 20-point plan — which was approved by the U.N. Security Council — lays out an ambitious vision for ending Hamas’ rule of Gaza. File Photo by Jonathan Ernst/ Reuters · Hamas wants more pressure on Israel before ceasefire's next phase

1 hour ago - President Trump said Monday that Hamas must disarm within a “very short period of time” as part of a ceasefire agreement with Israel, warning of deadly consequences if the group does not follow through.

37 minutes ago - Trump said he wanted to move to the second phase of the Gaza ceasefire plan “as quickly as we can, but there has to be a disarmament” from Hamas.

1 week ago - Panellists on Israeli Channel 12 discuss the status of the ceasefire with Hamas, on Dec. 18. (Channel 12 Israel) That, in a nutshell, is why the 20-point plan agreed to by Israel and Hamas, brokered by U.S. President Donald Trump, backed by Qatar, Turkey and Egypt and endorsed by the UN Security Council, is now effectively on life support.

2 days ago - According to the report, Trump’s team believes Netanyahu is delaying the Gaza ceasefire framework and could ultimately resume the war against Hamas, even as the Israeli leader seeks to persuade Trump himself to adopt a more hawkish approach.

1 week ago - “We recognize that both Hamas and Israel have committed ceasefire violations,” the Members continued. “Hamas has continued their brutal campaign in Gaza, including by reasserting control of areas of Gaza by killing civilians, and has killed three Israeli soldiers.

1 week ago - In Gaza, for example, the 20-point peace plan—a package that Trump hailed as “not only the end of a war, this is the end of an age of terror and death”—hasn’t ended the violence between Israel and Hamas. Instead, it has facilitated Israel’s slow-motion conquest of the West Bank ...

3 hours ago - Israel and Hamas agreed in October to Trump's plan to end the Gaza war, which ultimately sees Israel withdrawing from the territory and Hamas giving up its weapons and forgoing a governing role.

3 weeks ago - Some have expressed interest in joining a peacekeeping force, but none want to risk their soldiers being ordered to fight Hamas, despite pressure from the Trump administration. The Israeli army has built new concrete outposts along the “yellow line” to fortify its positions and declared it a lethal boundary, even though it is not always clearly marked and a ceasefire is in place.

July 2, 2025 - CAIRO (AP) — Hamas and Israel ... will be no Hamas” in postwar Gaza. Both sides stopped short of accepting the proposal announced Tuesday by U.S. President Donald Trump....

January 17, 2025 - (Image source: iStock.) Both Joe Biden and Donald Trump are taking credit for the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel. It is expected to take effect one day before Biden leaves office.

3 days ago - Donald Trump heralded his 20-point peace plan as the dawn of a new era for peace in the Middle East. Yet since a ceasefire came into effect on 10 October, more than 400 people in Gaza have been killed in Israeli strikes, according to the Palestinian ...