Netanyahu is under pressure from right-wing members of his coalition government to resume bombardment of the Gaza Strip until Hamas is destroyed. Several have said they received assurances from Netanyahu that after the first phase of the truce ends, Israeli troops and fighter jets will once again launch in and over Gaza.

Even before the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas was fully in place, Palestinians in the war-battered Gaza Strip began to return to the remains of the homes they had evacuated during the 15-month war.

On Sunday, as a deal between Israel and Hamas paused the deadliest war in a century of Israeli-Palestinian conflict, families across the enclave scrambled to reunite with their loved ones — the living,

Posts blaming Israel for the fires are similar to the narratives that followed Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton in 2024

The Israel-Hamas war has devastated the Gaza Strip. Satellite photos offer some sense of the destruction in the territory.

When asked why there was a large drop in the number of aid trucks on Friday, OCHA spokesperson Eri Kaneko said the U.N. and humanitarian partners "have been working as quickly as possible to dispatch and distribute this large volume of assistance" to some 2.1 million people across the devastated enclave.

US actress Jamie Lee Curtis has compared the fires in Los Angeles to the war in the Gaza Strip. "The whole area of Pacific Palisades unfortunately

Steve Witkoff, Trump’s envoy to the Middle East, plans to be a near-constant presence in the region in an attempt to prevent the deal from unraveling.

Satellite images provide one way to get a sense of the devastating impact of the war on the Gaza Strip. Research released in the U.S. on Thursday estimates 59.8% of all buildings in the territory Gaza likely have been damaged in the war.

Palestinians were eager to return to their homes in Gaza City, Rafah and other cities, but in many cases, nothing was left standing.

The release of four Israeli hostages Saturday comes nearly a week into a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and is part of a long and uncertain process aimed at eventually ending the war.