Mideast experts urge excluding UNRWA from Gaza reconstruction under President Trump's peace plan, citing the agency's alleged Hamas connections and incompetence.

US Vice President JD Vance expressed "great optimism" that the Gaza truce would hold, ahead of a meeting Wednesday in Jerusalem with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Vance is to meet Israeli leaders,

The group still commands thousands of fighters, but the war has taken a toll on its weapons supplies and its political future is uncertain.

Two more coffins have been returned from Gaza, containing what Hamas says are the remains of hostages. Earlier, JD Vance insisted to Sky News he had not rushed to visit Israel because of ceasefire tensions - saying he was "optimistic".

The Israeli government has halted humanitarian aid from entering the Gaza strip after the IDF struck targets in southern Gaza on Sunday

It will take about $70 billion to rebuild Gaza, according to an operational damage and needs assessment conducted jointly by the United Nations, the European Union and the World Bank. European and Arab nations, Canada and the U.S. appear willing to contribute to the estimated $70 billion needed to rebuild Gaza, the UN official said on Tuesday.

Monday’s release of the last 20 living Israeli hostages and nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners and detainees marks a pivotal moment in the war in Gaza , though it’s unclear whether it signals the end of conflict.

President Trump’s top Middle East peace envoys categorically rejected accusations that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, in an interview with CBS’s “60

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — U.S. Vice President JD Vance arrived in Israel on Tuesday to shore up the fragile U.S.-brokered ceasefire in Gaza that has teetered over the past few days following a burst of deadly violence and questions over how to move forward with the plan for cementing a long-term peace.

David Adler spent more than two weeks at sea and five days in an Israeli prison. He says flotilla members faced drone attacks before being detained and abused by the Israeli government.

WFP says food supplies remain well below daily target of 2,000 tonnes, calls for Israel to open more crossing points.