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It remains unclear whether Arab and other states will be ready to commit troops, in part given the refusal of Palestinian Hamas militants to disarm as called for by the plan, while Israel has voiced concerns about the make-up of the force. While the Trump administration has ruled out sending US soldiers into the Gaza Strip, it has been speaking to Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Qatar, Turkey and Azerbaijan to contribute to the multinational force.

The violence is much reduced. Yet Israeli forces have reportedly killed about 100 Palestinians and wounded hundreds more since the 10 October ceasefire began. Food aid supplies are still heavily restricted. The occupation continues, in Gaza and the West Bank. US officials fear prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his accomplices may renege on the deal, as in the past. Likewise, Hamas elements and rival gangs have kept fighting.

Anthony Aguilar takes centre stage to talk about the violence he witnessed as a security contractor with the notorious GHF in Gaza. The former US Army Special Forces lieutenant colonel details how the aid distribution sites operate and how the horrors that he saw forced him to resign after just 41 days. Since his return to the US, Aguilar has worked tirelessly to convince policymakers to end the US's involvement in Israel's two-year genocide.

Israel has returned the bodies of dozens more unidentified Palestinians to Gaza for burial in a mass grave in Deir el-Balah, with some badly mutilated and bearing marks of torture and execution. The Gaza Health Ministry reported on Wednesday that Israel transferred 30 more Palestinian bodies, raising the total returned under the ceasefire agreement to 195. Under the United States-brokered deal, Israel agreed to return the bodies of 15 Palestinians for each deceased Israeli captive that is returned.

The panel of 11 judges said on Wednesday that Israel is forced to support the relief efforts provided by the United Nations in the bombarded Gaza Strip and its entities. list of 3 itemsend of list It includes UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, which Israel has banned from operating in Israel after accusing some of its staff of taking part in the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack.

The documentary, Ma Khafiya Aatham (Tip of the Iceberg), which aired on Monday, discloses previously unknown details about the killing of the Rajab family and others in the final days of January 2024. list of 4 itemsend of list Hind Rajab's final hours as she pleaded for help following the initial shelling that killed her uncle, aunt and three cousins in their car were widely circulated on social media after the attack.

Dr Mohammed Mustafa, joins Centre Stage to talk about the horrific realities he witnessed during his volunteer postings in Gaza.

This much needed pause in hostilities is providing children with the chance to sleep without the fear of drones above their heads, airstrikes on nearby buildings or fires breaking out in their tents. Families in Gaza are slowly returning to their neighbourhoods and trying to salvage what they can of their lives from the rubble. But crucially, what they are still not currently getting is full and sustainable access to aid supplies and vital services.

On Thursday, the Gaza Government Media Office reported that officials estimate that there are 20,000 unexploded ordnances scattered across Gaza, including missiles and bombs dropped by Israeli forces. These pose a "grave threat" to the lives of Palestinian civilians and workers, and clearing them must be prioritized in order to mitigate further harm, the office said. The UN has warned of these harms and has teams working on removing them.

The war has ended, and it's time for me to return to my coffee, my bread and my poetry. Yet I don't know what it means to return to life, after death has lived within us down to the marrow. Death had us memorised by heart, reciting our names one by one with unwavering precision. We grew accustomed to it too, in all its forms and colours, until funerals became a daily ritual, much like a weather report we already know by heart.

Health officials in Gaza say many of the 90 returned bodies bore marks of violence and possible executions. Gaza's Ministry of Health says it has received the remains of 45 Palestinians who were held in Israeli custody via the International Committee of the Red Cross, bringing the total number of bodies returned to 90 as part of a United States-brokered ceasefire deal.

In both Israel and among its Western allies, the Gaza ceasefire deal is seen as an opportunity to move on from the accusations of genocide against it, and to restore close relations weakened as a result of public anger. Over two years of its unrelenting war on Gaza, Israel has killed more than 67,900 Palestinians and injured more than 170,000. It has destroyed or damaged 92 percent of the enclave's residential housing and its actions in blockading Gaza have led to a famine being declared.

As tanks withdraw and the bombing slows, Israel extends its war through Palestinian militias turned against their own. Israel's war on Gaza has not ended with the pullback of its tanks or the falling silent of its warplanes. Tens of thousands have been killed, hundreds of thousands of homes reduced to rubble, and some two million people driven from their homes. Yet the greatest danger may still lie ahead, for Israel intends to continue the war in another form,