President Trump raised expectations last week when he told reporters in the Oval Office that there could be a ceasefire agreement within the next week.

The Israel Defense Forces said Saturday that it had killed Hakham Muhammad Issa Al-Issa, one of the founders of Hamas’s military wing, in Gaza City. Israel has killed a number of other

Israeli strikes killed at least 72 people across Gaza overnight and into Saturday, health workers said, as ceasefire prospects were said to be improving after 21 months of war. Three children and their parents were killed in an Israeli strike on a tent camp in Muwasi near the southern city of Khan Younis.