Hamas called Saturday's strikes "a renewed flagrant violation" and urged the United States and other mediating countries to push Israel to stop the strikes.

A Gaza doctor who slammed Israel in a pair of New York Times op-eds is a colonel with terror group Hamas, according to an Israeli watchdog group and the Israeli Defense Forces. Hussam Abu Safyia was photographed wearing a Hamas camo military uniform while at a gathering of Hamas elites to celebrate the completion of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in 2016,

It marks the last hostage-detainee exchange between Israel and Hamas carried out as part of the first phase of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire reached in October.

With all Israeli hostages now recovered from Gaza, there's a push for the Israel-Hamas peace plan to move to phase-two, but that brings its own challenges.

Israel killed at least 32 Palestinians in a wave of strikes in Gaza targeting Hamas operatives and infrastructure, stemming from what it said is blatant cease-fire violations by the terror group and putting the tenuous peace deal on shakier ground.

In a joint statement, foreign ministers from eight Muslim countries blamed Israel for ceasefire violations in Gaza, citing continued military operations since the truce began. Israel’s military operations in Gaza are to blame for the breakdown in the ceasefire brokered by the United States,

The arrest warrants were issued in July against Nili Kupfer-Naouri, the president of the organization Israel Is Forever, and Rachel Touitou, an activist with the organization Tsav 9, a right-wing Israeli group that was sanctioned by the United States in June 2024 for destroying humanitarian aid for Gaza.

Israel carried out its heaviest airstrikes in Gaza in weeks on Saturday, killing over two dozen people including three children in attacks on a police station, houses and tents, Palestinian health officials said.