Israel arrests-key Hamas commander
The Israel Defense Forces and the domestic security agency Shin Bet said in a joint statement that they had arrested a key Hamas commander in the southern Gaza Strip on Friday.
The Israel Defense Forces and the domestic security agency Shin Bet said in a joint statement that they had arrested a key Hamas commander in the southern Gaza Strip on Friday.
The USA has stated that the radical Hamas movement has no alternative but to lay down its arms, with the White House expecting this to occur soon.
Israel believes that Hamas will soon relinquish authority over the Gaza Strip to a newly formed committee of Palestinian technocrats, The Times of Israel reported.
The Israel Defense Forces confirmed that it was searching for the remains of Master Sgt. Ran Gvili, the last remaining hostage held in the Gaza Strip, on the Israeli side of the ceasefire line in the enclave’s north.
Representatives of Turkish intelligence and Hamas discussed the Gaza peace plan in Istanbul.
According to Sky News, US authorities have reached an agreement with Hamas on disarmament and transformation into a political party.
The National Committee for the Administration of Gaza held its inaugural meeting in Cairo last week, officially launching its work.
President Donald Trump has expressed confidence that the second phase of the Gaza peace settlement - which includes the disarmament of Hamas, the dismantling of its underground communications, and the beginning of the reconstruction - can be achieved.
A senior Hamas official was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, though the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have not yet officially commented on this information.
According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, the Israeli military has drawn up plans for a potential new large-scale offensive in the Gaza Strip. This contingency planning is attributed to Hamas's reported refusal to disarm, a key element of the current US-mediated peace proposal.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump agreed in their meeting that Hamas would be given a two-month deadline to disarm, Israel Hayom reported.
The radical Palestinian group Hamas has confirmed that the group’s former leader in Gaza Mohammed Sinwar was killed earlier this year.
U.S. President Donald Trump said the radical Palestinian movement Hamas will have to pay a high price if it fails to disarm in "a very short period of time".
Russia continues to advocate a just settlement of the conflict between Palestine and Israel and one of the key factors in this regard is the establishment of a viable Palestinian State, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview on 2025 results.
Nearly 300 previously unconfirmed names were added to the list over the past week
Italian authorities arrested nine people on suspicion of raising millions of euros in funds for the radical group Hamas, prosecutors said Saturday.
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan met with a Hamas delegation led by member of Hamas’ Political Bureau Khalil al-Hayya in Ankara, the Turkish Foreign Ministry reported.
Hamas firmly rejects any attempts to disarm the resistance movement, warning against foreign interference, while demanding more detailed guarantees for the second phase of the ceasefire with Israel, top Hamas official Osama Hamdan said.
The parties discussed the second phase of the Gaza peace plan
No areas in the Gaza Strip are currently classified in famine, according to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis for Gaza.