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Trump administration pressures mediators for Hamas disarmament and Israel to forgo the Yellow Line border, to secure Board of Peace's ability to govern the entire Strip and deploy the international stabilization force
The 'bromance' alliance between the Turkish and U.S. presidents aids Erdogan's ambition to become the driving force of the Gaza peace plan's next phase and could lead to an arrangement in which Hamas lays down its arms rather than turning them in
Bassem Naim told AP that Hamas retains its 'right to resist' but added that the group is prepared to lay down its arms as part of a process aimed at establishing a Palestinian state. He provided few details on how this would work, but suggested the possibility of a long-term truce of five to ten years to allow for negotiations
The IDF targeted a Hamas commander after five Israeli soldiers were wounded by militants emerging from a tunnel in Rafah earlier Wednesday. According to Palestinian reports, the IDF struck displaced persons' tents in Khan Yunis amid a series of attacks across the enclave
Hamas said on Tuesday that the group had transferred the body of a hostage from Gaza. The two slain hostages whose bodies remain in Gaza are Ran Gvili and Sudthisak Rinthalak
Segev Kalfon told The New York Times of maltreatment at the hands of his Hamas captors and his decision to cling to hope after hearing his mother's voice on a makeshift radio
The new member of opposition leader Yair Lapid's Yesh Atid party commanded several West Bank military units and served as the head of the IDF's Northern Command. On October 7, 2023, he went to rescue his son Amir, a Haaretz columnist, and his family from a Gaza border kibbutz that was attacked by Hamas
The arrest is one of several suspected Hamas members' in recent weeks, German officials said. The man is alleged to have transported weapons from one suspected Hamas member in the central German state of Hesse to another in Berlin
Four deceased hostages remain in Gaza, after Hamas handed over the body of IDF officer Hadar Goldin on Sunday
Aviva Siegel, who was released in November 2023, told the UN anti-torture committee that the Hamas captors sexually abused the girls she was held with. Keith Siegel said he was 'denied the most basic of human rights. More than once, young terrorists forced me to strip in front of them and shaved my body'
State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman warned that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's failure to formalize Israel's national security concept left the IDF and defense establishment directionless, with decades of governmental inaction compounding the risks – so on October 7, Israel faced Hamas with no coherent strategy or prioritized defenses
According to the U.S.-backed plan reported by The Atlantic, only Palestinians approved by Israel's Shin Bet security service – and screened for ties to Hamas – will be allowed to live in the new communities. The plan is reportedly facing opposition from European, Arab and Muslim countries
The fate of President Trump's Gaza cease-fire depends on an international stabilization effort – tasked with disarming Hamas, protecting civilians, winning Palestinian public support and providing a political horizon. Its success or failure will determine if there'll be a different future – or more war
According to an Israeli government spokesperson, the two discussed the 200 Hamas fighters currently trapped in tunnels under IDF-controlled territory, demilitarizing Gaza and 'ensuring Hamas does not have a role in Gaza ever again'
The White House told Hamas last week that its militants stuck in Israeli-controlled territory behind the yellow line in Rafah would only be allowed passage if the body of Hadar Goldin, who was killed in early August 2014, was returned
While support for Hamas is not overwhelmingly strong, only a third of Palestinians polled said they wanted the Palestinian Authority to assume direct rule over Gaza after the war. As for Trump's proposal for an unaffiliated committee to govern Gaza postwar, 53 percent opposed the plan while 45 percent said they backed it
Israel's national security minister knew that his words and actions were provoking brutal Hamas violence against the hostages – but ignored repeated warnings. Now that the hostages are back and are speaking out, extent of the damage he caused is coming to light
A preliminary examination at the Institute of Forensic Medicine found no match between the remains of the three bodies transferred to Israel and the 11 deceased hostages still in Gaza. Israel was informed in advance that Hamas is not certain the bodies are those of hostages
According to police, the 14-year-old reached out to Hamas and ISIS and photographed security sites in Israel for them. The boy has been held as a security detainee for over two weeks in harsh conditions, and is suspected of membership in a terrorist organization and conspiracy
Trump maintains that the Gaza cease-fire will hold, but that doesn't mean Hamas or Israel want it to. Despite the recent clashes, the slow return of hostages' bodies and Hamas provocations, there is no sign that Washington will let Netanyahu batter Hamas
