The contractors have been enlisted to do weapons checks on vehicles carrying displaced Palestinians back to their homes in the north under the terms of the new cease-fire.

To better understand what the cease-fire will mean for the Israelis, the Palestinians, and the Middle East, Foreign Affairs turned to Marc Lynch, a professor of political science at George Washington University and the director of its Middle East Studies program.

The full extent of the damage will only be known when the fighting ends and inspectors have access to the territory.

Armed U.S. private security contractors will take up positions inside central Gaza, tasked with inspecting vehicles headed north from southern refugee centers.

The United Nations estimates that $50 billion ... a camp for people displaced by conflict in Bureij, in the central Gaza Strip, on Jan. 17, following the announcement of a truce amid the war ...

In a new report, Israel is accused of genocide against the Palestinian people through its systematic targeting of Gaza's healthcare system.

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported that 653 aid trucks entered the Gaza Strip following a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. The information was verified by Israeli authorities and ceasefire guarantors including the United States,

Hamas has been designated a terrorist organization by the United States, Canada, and European Union ... said it had struck approximately 50 terrorist targets across the Gaza Strip over the past day, including weapons storage facilities and rocket launch ...

The Gaza ceasefire is huge news. But the costs of its delay are devastating.

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — A long-awaited ceasefire in ... The planned ceasefire, agreed after a year of intensive mediation by the United States, Qatar and Egypt, is the first step in a ...

Palestinians burst into the streets to celebrate and return to the rubble of their bombed-out homes on Sunday after a ceasefire deal halted fighting in Gaza, and three female hostages freed by Hamas were reunited with their mothers inside Israel.

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