Overview
- Draft U.S. resolution circulating at the Security Council proposes a temporary international security force in Gaza and a two‑year transition council, but disagreements have delayed a vote.
- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Gaza will be demilitarized and vowed Hamas would be disarmed "the easy way or the hard way," while reiterating opposition to a Palestinian state west of the Jordan River.
- U.S. envoys, including Jared Kushner, pressed Israel for a practical outcome for Hamas cells trapped in Rafah tunnels, with options discussed such as transfer to a third country, as Hamas rejects surrender.
- Egypt’s foreign minister Badr Abdel‑Aty reaffirmed Cairo’s rejection of any plan to divide Gaza or displace Palestinians and backed steps to empower a Palestinian governing mechanism under the broader Sharm el‑Sheikh framework.
- U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee described the truce as fragile but holding and said more than 17,000 aid trucks have entered Gaza since October; separately, Russia’s defense ministry claimed new strikes and local gains in eastern Ukraine, including captures of two towns and reported Ukrainian marine surrenders.