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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited the Middle East this week and said Benjamin Netanyahu was on board with a US proposal to bridge gaps and reach a ceasefire.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was to convene his war cabinet Sunday to discuss the latest efforts towards a Gaza truce and hostage release deal, a senior official told AFP.

Hamas said Sunday it had no "major issues" after reviewing Israel's latest proposal for a long-sought truce and hostage-release deal in the Gaza Strip after almost seven months of war.

Palestinian Islamist group Hamas has received a draft proposal from Gaza truce talks in Paris for a pause in military operations and the exchange of Palestinian prisoners for Israeli hostages, a senior source close to the talks said on Tuesday.

Israel's latest evacuation order for civilians in the central Gaza Strip would force them to relocate to areas "where there are ongoing air strikes", the UN agency for Palestinian refugees said on Saturday.

The health ministry in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip said on Tuesday that at least 19,667 people had been killed in the Israel-Hamas war in the Palestinian territory since October 7.

Yarden Roman-Gat was never taken into Hamas' vast tunnel network after being kidnapped from Israel on October 7, but said she was instead held in a house under constant guard by men who treated her like a "trophy."

Palestinian group Hamas, engaged in a war with Israel in the Gaza Strip, warned Sunday that no hostage would leave the territory alive unless the group's demands were met.

Thirty Palestinian prisoners were freed overnight Thursday, the Israeli prison authorities said, in the latest exchange under an extended truce deal due to expire within hours.

The United Nations on Saturday said 61 trucks carrying medical supplies, food, and water had delivered their payloads in northern Gaza, as a pause in fighting allows aid to enter the besieged coastal territory.

UN rights experts called Monday for independent investigations into alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity carried out in Israel and the Palestinian territories since October 7.

By helping broker an Israel-Hamas deal to free hostages, US President Joe Biden has achieved a long-sought win in a war that has cost him politically.

Ex-Israel PM Ehud Barak on Monday said his country had built some of the bunkers beneath Gaza's war-torn Al Shifa Hospital, which has been in the news this past week after Israel said they found a 55-metre "terrorist tunnel" under the hospital.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that "we are making progress" on the return of hostages Hamas seized during the October 7 attacks, after mediators said a truce deal was in sight.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday Israel would not agree to a "temporary truce" in its war on Hamas militants without the release of hostages taken from Israel to Gaza.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited the Middle East this week and said Benjamin Netanyahu was on board with a US proposal to bridge gaps and reach a ceasefire.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was to convene his war cabinet Sunday to discuss the latest efforts towards a Gaza truce and hostage release deal, a senior official told AFP.

Hamas said Sunday it had no "major issues" after reviewing Israel's latest proposal for a long-sought truce and hostage-release deal in the Gaza Strip after almost seven months of war.

Palestinian Islamist group Hamas has received a draft proposal from Gaza truce talks in Paris for a pause in military operations and the exchange of Palestinian prisoners for Israeli hostages, a senior source close to the talks said on Tuesday.

Israel's latest evacuation order for civilians in the central Gaza Strip would force them to relocate to areas "where there are ongoing air strikes", the UN agency for Palestinian refugees said on Saturday.

The health ministry in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip said on Tuesday that at least 19,667 people had been killed in the Israel-Hamas war in the Palestinian territory since October 7.

Yarden Roman-Gat was never taken into Hamas' vast tunnel network after being kidnapped from Israel on October 7, but said she was instead held in a house under constant guard by men who treated her like a "trophy."

Palestinian group Hamas, engaged in a war with Israel in the Gaza Strip, warned Sunday that no hostage would leave the territory alive unless the group's demands were met.

Thirty Palestinian prisoners were freed overnight Thursday, the Israeli prison authorities said, in the latest exchange under an extended truce deal due to expire within hours.

The United Nations on Saturday said 61 trucks carrying medical supplies, food, and water had delivered their payloads in northern Gaza, as a pause in fighting allows aid to enter the besieged coastal territory.

UN rights experts called Monday for independent investigations into alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity carried out in Israel and the Palestinian territories since October 7.

By helping broker an Israel-Hamas deal to free hostages, US President Joe Biden has achieved a long-sought win in a war that has cost him politically.

Ex-Israel PM Ehud Barak on Monday said his country had built some of the bunkers beneath Gaza's war-torn Al Shifa Hospital, which has been in the news this past week after Israel said they found a 55-metre "terrorist tunnel" under the hospital.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that "we are making progress" on the return of hostages Hamas seized during the October 7 attacks, after mediators said a truce deal was in sight.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday Israel would not agree to a "temporary truce" in its war on Hamas militants without the release of hostages taken from Israel to Gaza.