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At least 87 Palestinians were killed, including 21 children and 25 women, in Israeli attacks on Gaza since the announcement of a ceasefire deal that is due to start on Sunday. Israel’s cabinet is expected to convene a meeting today to approve the Gaza ceasefire agreement, according to reports. Twenty Palestinians were killed and dozens injured when the Israeli military …

Israel intensified strikes on Gaza hours after a ceasefire and hostage release deal was announced, residents and authorities in the Palestinian enclave said, and mediators sought to quell fighting ahead of the truce’s start on Sunday. At least 12 people were killed and several wounded in shelling in a residential block of the northern Gaza strip, Palestinian civil defence reported …

Israel and Hamas agreed to a deal to halt fighting in Gaza and exchange Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners, an official briefed on the deal told Reuters on Wednesday, opening the way to a possible end to a 15-month war that has upended the Middle East. The agreement follows months of on-off negotiations brokered by Egyptian and Qatari mediators, with …

A round of Gaza ceasefire talks will be held in Doha on Tuesday morning to finalise remaining details related to the deal, an official briefed on the negotiations told Reuters on Monday. A deal to end the Gaza war is “closer than it’s ever been”, the official said, adding that US President-elect Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, outgoing …

The Israeli military siege on the northern Gaza Strip has left about 5,000 Palestinians dead or missing after 100 days of brutal attacks that have only intensified amid talks of a potential mediated agreement between Israel and Hamas. Another 9,500 Palestinians were injured as a result of the Israeli military operation in the north that was launched in early October. …

Many women and young children have been reported killed in Israel’s latest attacks on Gaza, with nearly 50 people killed and dozens wounded in a single day as the overall death toll in the war-ravaged Palestinian territory pushes towards 46,000. According to reports, at least 49 Palestinians had been killed by Israeli attacks since the early hours of Tuesday morning. …

Palestinian group Hamas has approved a list of 34 hostages presented by Israel to be exchanged in a possible ceasefire deal, a group official told Reuters. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter, also reiterated that any deal is contingent upon reaching an agreement on an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and a …

At least 17 Palestinians were killed on Wednesday in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip on the first day of 2025, according reports. An Israeli drone hit a home in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, killing a woman and child and injuring several people, as per reports. Israeli artillery also shelled the eastern and northern parts of the …

Israel’s army has detained the director of one of the last functioning hospitals in northern Gaza, as the World Health Organization said Israeli assaults on medical facilities are a “death sentence” for thousands of Palestinians. An Israeli military assault on the Kamal Adwan Hospital on Friday put the last major health facility in northern Gaza out of service, the WHO …