Hamas has rejected a 60-day Gaza ceasefire proposal, a senior official in Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office told reporters Saturday.

Shelah described the reality of the war in Gaza as “soldiers dying and great exhaustion for the army.” Referring to plans to displace Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, Shelah affirmed that, contrary to what some Israeli figures hope,

Hospital officials say Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 28 Palestinians in Gaza, including four children.

Cash is the lifeblood of the Gaza Strip’s shattered economy, and like all other necessities in this war-torn territory -- food, fuel, medicine -- it is in extremely short supply.

A proposal seen by Reuters and bearing the name of a controversial U.S.-backed aid group described a plan to build large-scale camps called “Humanitarian Transit Areas” inside - and possibly outside - Gaza to house the Palestinian population,

While UN and European officials hope that a cease-fire deal would help ease suffering among the Strip’s population, Israelis worry that as in the

The announcement came as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepared to leave Washington after meetings with President Trump, apparently without finalizing a temporary ceasefire advocated by the White House.

Hamas and Israel on Saturday accused the other of blocking attempts to strike a Gaza ceasefire agreement, nearly a week into indirect talks between the two sides to halt 21 months of bitter fighting in the Palestinian territory.