Ceasefire talks are clouded by a humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, and Israel's insistence on controlling 75 percent of the enclave

Following days of conflicting reports about a possible ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel, the Palestinian movement confirmed in an official statement that it had reached a “general framework agreement” with US envoy Steve Witkoff.

Steve Witkoff calls Hamas’ response “disappointing and unacceptable,” stressing Israel’s acceptance of a temporary ceasefire and hostage deal is still on the table.

The Czech Republic plans to relocate its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem but awaits more favorable conditions. Prime Minister Petr Fiala stated that the timing depends on the cessation of Israel-Hamas hostilities and possible expansions in the Abraham Accords,

3 p.m. – midnight – IDF achieves overwhelming superiority in numbers and beats most of Hamas’s remaining organized forces, which are down to a few hundred. INFOGRAPHIC: Timeline of key ...

The timeline for the first phase of the deal, which came into effect on Jan. 19, expired on Saturday. It called for a 6-week pause in the fighting and Hamas' release of 33 hostages, some of them ...

The Palestinian militant group said it would free Edan Alexander, an Israeli-American soldier, "in order to advance the efforts to reach a ceasefire"