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October 15, 2025 10:48 PM

Aid trucks roll into Gaza as dispute over hostage bodies is paused

Aid trucks rolled into Gaza on Wednesday and Israel resumed preparations to open the main Rafah crossing after a dispute over the return of the bodies of dead hostages that had threatened to derail the fragile ceasefire deal with Hamas. Israel had threatened to keep Rafah shut and reduce aid supplies because Hamas was returning bodies too slowly, showing the risks to a truce that has stopped two years of devastating warfare in Gaza and seen all living hostages held by Hamas freed. However, the...

October 15, 2025 10:29 PM

Gaza needs massive boost in emergency aid after ceasefire, UN relief chief says

The United Nations is seeking a dramatic boost in humanitarian aid for Gaza, saying the hundreds of relief trucks cleared to enter the devastated enclave under a ceasefire were nowhere near the thousands needed to ease a humanitarian disaster. Tom Fletcher, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and its top emergency relief coordinator, told Reuters in an interview that thousands of humanitarian vehicles must enter weekly to avert further catastrophe. "We have 190,...

October 15, 2025 10:20 PM

US military tells Hamas to stop violence against Gaza civilians, disarm ‘without delay’

The U.S. military's Middle East command on Wednesday called on Hamas to stop its violence against civilians in Gaza and disarm "without delay" as the militant group reasserts itself by deploying security forces and executing those it deems collaborators with Israel. Hamas, which has not publicly committed to disarming and ceding power, has gradually sent its men back into the streets of Gaza since the ceasefire began on Friday. It has killed more than 30 members of "a gang" in Gaza City, a Pal...

October 14, 2025 10:23 PM

Gaza ceasefire outlook darkens as Israel delays aid and Hamas tightens grip

Israel delayed aid into Gaza and kept the enclave's border shut on Tuesday, while re-emergent Hamas fighters demonstrated their grip by executing men in the street, darkening the outlook for U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to end the war. Three Israeli officials said Israel had decided to restrict aid into the shattered Gaza Strip and delay plans to open the border crossing to Egypt at least through Wednesday, because Hamas had been too slow to turn over bodies of dead hostages. The militant...

October 14, 2025 5:01 PM

UN says countries are willing to help fund Gaza’s $70 bln reconstruction

European and Arab nations, Canada and the U.S. appear willing to contribute to the estimated $70 billion needed to rebuild Gaza, a U.N. official said on Tuesday, adding that the two-year war there had produced rubble equal to 13 times the pyramids of Giza. Jaco Cilliers, an official at the United Nations Development Programme, said Israel's war against Hamas had generated at least 55 million tons of rubble and that it could take decades for Gaza to fully recover. "We've heard very positive new...

October 14, 2025 10:10 PM

Returning hostage bodies from Gaza may take time, Red Cross says

It may take considerable time to hand over remains of hostages and Palestinians who died during the Israel-Hamas war, a "massive challenge" given the difficulties of finding bodies in Gaza's rubble, the International Committee of the Red Cross said. Palestinian militant group Hamas freed the last living Israeli hostages from Gaza on Monday under a ceasefire deal and Israel sent home busloads of Palestinian detainees as U.S. President Donald Trump declared an end to the two-year war. But only f...

October 14, 2025 3:03 PM

Israel says it opens fire on suspects in Gaza, local authorities report six killed

Israel's military said it opened fire on Tuesday to remove a threat posed by suspects who approached its forces in the northern Gaza Strip, and health authorities in the enclave said at least six Palestinians had been killed by Israeli fire. The military said the suspects had crossed a boundary for an initial Israeli pullback under a U.S.-brokered ceasefire plan, in a violation of the deal. Gaza's local health authority said the Israeli military killed six Palestinians in two separate incident...

October 13, 2025 8:43 PM

PM Modi welcomes release of Israeli hostages, hails Trump’s peace efforts and Netanyahu’s leadership

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday welcomed the release of the remaining Israeli hostages held in Gaza for over two years, lauding the “unwavering peace efforts” of U.S. President Donald Trump and the “strong resolve” of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In a post on X, PM Modi said, “We welcome the release of all hostages after over two years of captivity. Their freedom stands as a tribute to the courage of their families, the unwavering peace efforts of President Trump ...

October 13, 2025 4:57 PM

Israel’s Netanyahu won’t attend Egypt summit on ending Gaza war

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not attend Monday's summit on ending the Gaza war in Egypt, his office said, after Cairo had earlier announced he would take part. In a statement, Netanyahu's office said he had been invited by U.S. President Donald Trump to participate in the meeting of world leaders in Sharm el-Sheikh but declined "due to the timing's proximity to the beginning of (a Jewish) holiday." "The Prime Minister thanked President Trump for his invitation and for his eff...

October 13, 2025 2:58 PM

Hamas deploys fighters as hostages released, in show of strength

Hamas deployed fighters in Gaza on Monday as a release of hostages seized in the October 7 attacks was under way, Reuters footage showed, in an apparent show of strength by the militant group which President Donald Trump says must disarm. Reuters footage showed dozens of Hamas fighters lined up at a hospital in southern Gaza, and an armed man wearing the insignia of the Hamas armed wing, the Qassam Brigades. His shoulder patch identified him as a member of the elite "Shadow Unit", which Hamas s...