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Israeli Strikes Kill At Least Ten in Gaza

  • Israeli strikes killed at least ten Palestinians, including five members of the same family, in separate attacks, the Gazan Health Ministry said (Reuters)

Israeli Strikes Kill Three in Gaza

  • Israeli strikes killed three Palestinians in Gaza, local health officials said; a Hamas official said that Israel has “rejected ending its attacks” and continues to restrict aid and goods coming into Gaza (Reuters)

Israeli Fire Kills Four in Gaza

  • Israeli fire killed at least four Palestinians in separate incidents across the Gaza Strip, local health officials said (Reuters)

Israeli Strike Kills Two in Gaza

  • An Israeli airstrike killed at least two Palestinians and wounded twelve ​at a Gaza cafe (Reuters)

Netanyahu Orders Israeli Military to Seize 70 Percent of Gaza Strip

  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that he has directed the Israeli military to take control of 70 percent of Gaza’s territory, significantly expanding beyond the terms of the October 2025 ceasefire agreement; the seizure would force Gaza’s 2.2 million Palestinians into less than a third of the coastal enclave’s original territory (Guardian)
  • Under the U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreement, Israeli forces had withdrawn to a demarcation line known as the yellow line that left them controlling roughly 53 percent of Gaza (CNN)

Israeli Strike Kills Top Hamas Leader in Gaza

  • The IDF announced it killed Izz al-Din al-Haddad, the most senior military leader of Hamas based in Gaza, in an airstrike in Gaza City (NYT)
  • Separately, Fatah held its first party conference in a decade; President Mahmoud Abbas promised to hold presidential and parliamentary elections without specifying a timeline (BBC)

EU Sanctions on Israeli Settlers

  • European Union (EU) foreign ministers approved sanctions on Israeli settlers accused of committing violence against Palestinians, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas wrote on social media (EU High Rep)
  • For months, former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán had blocked the sanctions package; his successor, Péter Magyar, sworn into office over the weekend, signaled he would support it (NYT)

Israeli Strike on Son of Hamas Negotiator

  • Medics and Hamas sources told Reuters that the strikes across Gaza killed at least five other people (Reuters)

Gaza Reconstruction Cost

  • Rebuilding the enclave will cost $71.4 billion over the next decade, according to a report released by the EU, United Nations, and World Bank, a marked increase from their $53.2 billion estimate in February 2025; despite a ceasefire that began last October, there has been a “limited” reversal of economic paralysis in the enclave, the report said (UN)

Israeli Strikes Kill at Least Eleven in Gaza, Including Two Children

  • According to local health officials, Israeli fire killed at least eleven Palestinians across Gaza on Tuesday, including two children; a separate airstrike also struck near a beachside café (Reuters)

Israeli Strike Kills Three in Gaza as Ceasefire Talks Continue

  • An Israeli airstrike struck a group of men outside a school in central Gaza, killing at least three Palestinians; this comes as mediators held talks with Hamas leaders to preserve a fragile U.S.-brokered ceasefire (Reuters)

Israel Approves Dozens of New West Bank Settlements

  • Israel has approved thirty-four new Jewish settlements in the West Bank, according to watchdog group Peace Now, though Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has not formally announced the move; the Palestinian Presidency’s office condemned the decision as a violation of international law (Reuters)

Israeli Airstrike Kills At Least Ten

  • An Israeli airstrike outside a school housing displaced Palestinians killed at least ten people; medics and residents say that before the strikes, some Palestinians clashed with members of an Israeli militia, who reportedly attacked the school (Reuters)

Hamas Ties Disarmament to Full Israeli Withdrawal From Gaza

  • Hamas has told mediators it will not consider disarming unless Israel fully withdraws from Gaza under the terms outlined in a U.S.-backed proposal; the group conveyed its position during talks in Cairo with Egyptian, Qatari, and Turkish mediators, signaling that disarmament remains a central obstacle to advancing a ceasefire framework (Reuters)

Palestinians Protest New Israeli Death Penalty Law

  • Hundreds of Palestinians across the West Bank protested the passage of an Israeli law that makes hangings the default punishment for Palestinians convicted in military courts of lethal militant attacks (Al Jazeera)
  • While the law applies to Israeli citizens, both Jewish and Palestinian Arab, experts say the law was written in a way that would almost certainly exclude Jewish Israelis who committed similar crimes (NYT)

Israeli Strikes Kill Six Palestinians Across Gaza and West Bank

  • Israeli airstrikes killed at least four Palestinians in Gaza on Monday, striking a group near Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighborhood and a community kitchen in the Nuseirat refugee camp, as Israeli forces say it struck a Hamas cell; in the West Bank, Israeli forces shot and killed two Palestinians near Hebron and Tulkarm, with Palestinian sources alleging soldiers prevented rescuers from reaching one victim (Reuters)
  • Separately, the Israeli military removed a reservist battalion from West Bank operations after soldiers detained a CNN journalism team, and one soldier was recorded on camera describing the unit’s actions as retribution against Palestinians (NYT)

Italy-Israel Holy Week Tensions

  • Both Italy’s prime minister and the U.S. ambassador to Israel criticized Israeli police for blocking the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to celebrate Palm Sunday for the first time in hundreds of years (Times of Israel; U.S. Ambassador to Israel)
  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the move was due to concerns for the Catholic leader’s safety; Israeli officials granted access to the church following the objections (BBC)

CNN Team Detained in West Bank

  • Israeli soldiers in the West Bank detained a CNN journalism team and several Palestinians in the village of Tayasir, with one soldier telling reporters on camera that troops were motivated by revenge, while another soldier physically assaulted CNN photojournalist Cyril Theophilos; the Israeli military acknowledged the soldiers’ conduct was incompatible with expected standards and chief of staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir ordered investigation findings presented to him as soon as possible (CNN)

IDF Says It Killed Hamas Operatives in Airstrike

  • The Israel Defense Forces announced that it killed several members of Hamas’s elite Nukhba force in an airstrike; the IDF further stated that the operatives had recently conducted training exercises that threatened Israel and its troops (Times of Israel)

Ten Palestinians Injured in West Bank Attacks

  • Attacks by Israeli settlers in the West Bank injured at least ten Palestinians as homes and cars were set on fire in Deir-al-Hatab, a village near Nablus and the Israeli settlement of Elon Moreh; the assaults and arson came after mourners in Elon Moreh held a funeral for Yehuda Sherman, an eighteen year old Israeli settler who was killed in a car crash with a Palestinian vehicle (AP)

Trump Mediators Presented Hamas a Disarmament Proposal

  • U.S. officials told NPR that in Cairo, mediators presented Hamas with a formal U.S.-backed proposal requiring the complete disarmament and decommissioning of all militant groups in Gaza, transferring weapons control to a new governing authority in exchange for large-scale reconstruction; Hamas, which was given about a week to respond to the proposal, criticized the plan as a “take it or leave it” offer and signaled it will delay its response pending developments in the Iran war (NPR)

IDF Says It Destroyed Five Kilometers of Hamas Tunnels in Gaza

  • The Israel Defense Forces announced that it demolished five kilometers of Hamas tunnels in the Gaza Strip over the past two weeks; one of the tunnels was in eastern Rafah, while another was in Khan Younis (Times of Israel)

Israeli Air Strike Kills Three in Gaza

  • Local health authorities in Gaza reported that an Israeli airstrike targeting a vehicle in western Khan Younis killed three and wounded twelve others; this comes as both Israel and Hamas have exchanged accusations of ceasefire violations (Reuters)

Trump Envoys Meet Hamas in Cairo to Support Gaza Ceasefire

  • Envoys from U.S. President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace reportedly met Hamas representatives in Cairo over the weekend to help preserve the Gaza ceasefire, which has come under strain since the United States and Israel began strikes on Iran (Reuters)

Deadly Fire in Gaza

  • Two Israeli airstrikes in Gaza killed at least twelve Palestinians, according to local hospitals, which said a pregnant woman, two boys, and eight police officers were among them (AP)
  • The Israeli military said it carried out a strike in the enclave after Hamas militants fired on Israeli troops Saturday, without specifying which strike it was referring to (Reuters)