The new rounds of violence were “likely the most serious challenge to the tenuous ceasefire deal in Gaza since it came into force,” The Associated Press said. The Israeli Defense Forces said the ceasefire was back in effect after its heavy airstrikes,

Since an Israel-Hamas cease-fire deal came into effect, the U.S. effort to sustain it appears to have constrained Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Netanyahu's delay in addressing Gaza's post-war security allowed Hamas to retake control. Can the new international force still restore stability? As early as the start of 2024, both Biden administration officials and the IDF high command tried to press Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss how Gaza would look in the "Day After" the war ended.

In an extensive interview published by Time, Trump gave readers insight into the behind-the-scenes discussions that led to the start of the ceasefire agreement.

A reporter asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Vice President JD Vance during Vance's visit this week to Jerusalem whether the U.S. pressuring Israel to make a peace deal with Hamas makes it an American "vassal state or protectorate.