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.”

1 day 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 - 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.

October 28, 2024 - Israel said those talks would continue in the coming days between the mediators and with Hamas to examine the feasibility of talks and to further efforts to promote a deal. No breakthrough is expected before U.S. election, the official briefed on the matter said.

4 days ago - Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Sunday that Hamas is “absolutely not” ready to disarm, raising concern that the U.S. and Israel are not doing enough to advance the ceasefire deal agreed to in October.

1 day ago - Ran Gvili's mother said she will join Netanyahu on his upcoming trip to the United States, and urged him and U.S. President Donald Trump to not move to the ceasefire's next phase until her son's remains are returned — a condition of the first phase of the truce. "I will not accept a situation where towers are being built and Gaza is being rehabilitated while my Ran is abandoned in the field," Talik Gvili said. "I am traveling to the United States to remind everyone that Ran is not a number. He is an Israeli hero." The 24-year-old police officer was killed while fighting Hamas militants who were attacking a kibbutz on Oct.

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 ...

November 7, 2024 - As part of the proposed accord, the phases would see Israel end the war against Hamas, withdraw from Gaza and release Palestinian prisoners; Hamas would free the 101 hostages still held there.

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.

1 day ago - Since then, repeated clashes with ... a large-scale Israeli military campaign and genocide in Gaza. Interim ceasefires in late 2023 and early 2025 collapsed....

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 900 have been injured by Israeli attacks… On November 29, the Israeli military killed two brothers, aged 8 and 10, in a drone strike after they crossed into an Israeli-controlled area of Gaza, referring to the children as “suspects” in a statement that failed to acknowledge they were children.

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