Failure to implement the Board of Peace’s plan for resolving the situation in the Gaza Strip will lead to the collapse of the ceasefire reached between Israel and the Palestinian movement Hamas, the Board’s High Representative for Gaza Nikolay Mladenov said.
Israel announced it had assassinated a Hamas military commander, accusing him of involvement in the kidnapping of Israeli nationals.
Israel is considering expelling British, and possibly other European officials, from the U.S.-led coordination centre for post-war Gaza, the Financial Times reported on Thursday.
The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office stresses that Israel has not yet approved the deployment of the nascent International Stabilization Force to Gaza under U.S. President Donald Trump’s postwar plan for the Strip.
Israeli forces have blocked several Hamas tunnels during ongoing operations in the central and southern Gaza Strip.
Israel must fully take over the Gaza Strip, establish its military rule there and begin setting up Jewish communities in the Palestinian enclave, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said.
The disarmament of the radical Palestinian movement Hamas may begin within 30 days, and work to eliminate some of the tunnels in the next two to three months, Jared Kushner, son·in·law of U.S. President Donald Trump, said in an interview with Fox News.
The Israeli military will not withdraw from the so-called Yellow Line and will hold its positions in the Gaza Strip, while Israel will not change its approach toward targeted operations against armed radicals, adviser to the Israeli prime minister’s office Dmitri Gendelman said after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting with US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking to maintain the Israeli military presence in the Gaza Strip and is bearing responsibility for a possible failure of mediation efforts to resolve the conflict, League of Arab States Secretary-General Nabil Fahmy said.
Istanbul could become the permanent base for Hamas's political leadership, according to Maghreb Times, as Algeria has not approved the move.
Hamas has called on mediators and the Board of Peace to put pressure on Israel to compel it to abide by the Gaza ceasefire agreement and approve the transition to the second phase of the peace plan.
Israel rejects the 15-point document on Gaza and will not withdraw its forces until Hamas is genuinely disarmed, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at the start of the government’s weekly meeting.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz have quietly given the go-ahead for rehabilitation work to begin in southern Gaza, despite vowing that reconstruction would only take place once the Hamas group was disarmed, Army Radio reported.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel will not withdraw from its current lines in Gaza until Hamas has completely disarmed and pushed back on a recent deal announced by U.S. President Donald Trump.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel has not agreed to the Board of Peace’s disarmament plan, which was accepted by Hamas last week.
Turkish National Intelligence Organization Director Ibrahim Kalin met with the new head of the radical movement Hamas’s Politburo, Khalil al-Hayya, in Ankara to discuss a roadmap for transiting to the second stage of U.S. President Donald Trump’s peace plan for Gaza.
Hamas has called on mediators to pressure Israel into agreeing to a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
According to Hamas, it will not initiate disarmament until certain conditions are fulfilled.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that an agreement on the full disarmament of Hamas had been reached.
Khalil al-Hayya has been appointed as the new head of Hamas's Politburo, replacing Yahya Sinwar, who was killed in October 2024.
