Overview
- Negotiations continue at the UN Security Council on a US draft resolution that would authorize a two‑year International Stabilization Force in Gaza with authority to use “all necessary measures.”
- Prospective contributors such as Azerbaijan, Indonesia and Turkey are being discussed, with Israel pressing to exclude Turkish troops, and Washington saying it will not deploy soldiers to Gaza.
- US planning documents and Israeli media report exploration of a large US base in southern Israel to support stabilization, though this has not been formally announced by the IDF or the White House.
- Talks over roughly 100–200 Hamas fighters still in Gaza’s tunnels—including proposals for surrender, safe passage or exile—remain a key precondition for moving to Phase 2.
- The ceasefire holds but aid scale‑up is constrained, the UN says, even as Israel’s COGAT announces the Zikim crossing will open permanently; Netanyahu vows to enforce the truce “with an iron fist,” the Knesset advances a death‑penalty bill on first reading, and President Trump asks Israel’s president to pardon Netanyahu, who was told a formal request is required.