Overview

• Mediators presented a 60-day ceasefire framework calling for phased release of Israeli hostages and delivery of humanitarian aid, and a Hamas source confirmed the group accepted it without amendments.
• Israel has yet to publicly endorse the proposal as its security cabinet greenlights plans for a ground offensive to capture Gaza City and organize civilian relocations to the south.
• Amnesty International accused Israel of enacting a deliberate starvation policy in Gaza after reports of widespread malnutrition and blocked aid convoys.
• The Gaza health ministry reported over 62,000 Palestinian deaths, a figure that UN agencies and rights groups cite as evidence of a deepening humanitarian catastrophe.
• Massive protests in Israel demanding an end to the war and hostage returns, alongside Egypt’s denunciation of displacement plans as ethnic cleansing, have intensified pressure on Prime Minister Netanyahu.