Overview

• Israel and Hamas signed an agreement to implement the initial phase of U.S. President Donald Trump’s Gaza plan.
• The truce took effect at 12:00 MSK, and the Israeli army said its units repositioned along updated deployment lines.
• Gaza Civil Defense reported that about 250,000 displaced people have returned to Gaza City since the ceasefire began.
• The first phase envisions Hamas releasing Israeli hostages, an Israeli pullback to an agreed line inside Gaza, and Israel releasing hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.
• Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the PFLP issued a joint statement rejecting external control of Gaza’s governance while welcoming Arab and international assistance for reconstruction and preparing, with Egypt, an urgent national conference.