Hamas has said recovering bodies is complicated by the widespread devastation in the coastal enclave and has returned one to three bodies every few days. It has accused Israel of opening fire at civilians and restricting the flow of humanitarian aid into the territory. The number of casualties has dropped since the ceasefire took effect.

Israel says it has "renewed enforcement of the ceasefire" after deadly airstrikes in Gaza that tested the U.S.-brokered peace deal.

Since a 2024 ceasefire with Hezbollah, Israel has attacked Lebanon almost daily. Now, the pattern is repeating in Gaza.

At present, the lede and the overall presentation state...that Israel is committing genocide, although that claim is highly contested," Wales wrote.

Zohran Mamdani, a vocal pro-Palestinian advocate, has been a critic of Israel’s war in Gaza. He described Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack as a “war crime” but asserted that the U.S. government is complicit in what he terms Israel’s “genocidal war” on Gaza.

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Scores of Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders in 20 countries have urged the Trump administration to bolster the fragile Israel-Hamas ceasefire and ensure desperately needed humanitarian aid flows to civilians still suffering from two years of war.

Israel’s ruling coalition wants next year’s budget to take the country “from conflict to growth” and estimates the deficit will shrink now that a ceasefire with Hamas has been secured, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said.