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A month after suspending its mediation bid, Qatar has said it sees “momentum” in efforts to reach a deal to end Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip, as dozens of Palestinians were killed in the Israeli military’s continued attacks on the besieged enclave.

Steven Witkoff held talks with Netanyahu and Sheikh Mohammed to discuss deal ahead of inauguration

US President-elect Donald Trump has issued an apparent warning to Hamas, threatening “all hell to pay” if hostages held in Gaza are not released by the time he returns to the White House on 20 January.

Palestinian movement Hamas and Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party have agreed to create a committee to jointly run post-war Gaza, negotiators from both sides said Tuesday.

President Joe Biden has said the US will make another push with regional powers for a ceasefire in Gaza, involving the release of hostages and the removal of Hamas from power.

After more than a year of unimaginable death and destruction in the Middle East, there is finally a moment of hope.

A ceasefire between Israel and the powerful Lebanese movement Hezbollah took effect on Wednesday after both sides accepted an agreement brokered by the United States and France.

Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority (PA), has set the path for his succession with a new decree that could see one of his loyalists replace him in an interim period.