Gaza’s Civil Defense said 19 people were killed in the nearly three-hour delay from when the ceasefire was set to be enforced.

The Israel-Hamas war has devastated the Gaza Strip. Satellite photos offer some sense of the destruction in the territory.

The ceasefire in Gaza began at 9.15am UK time, after facing a delay while Israel waited for Hamas to provide the list of hostages to be freed in exchange for Palestinian prisoners

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The ceasefire deal was signed off by Israel’s government on Saturday morning - but attacks have continued on the Gaza Strip

The government vote was delayed by wrangling between Israel and Hamas and by negotiations between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his far-right political allies.

The city of Jenin in the northern West Bank has been a flashpoint in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for decades.

An Israeli airstrike killed at least eight people in the Gaza Strip after the ceasefire was delayed. Nasser Hospital in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis confirmed the casualties from Sunday’s strike,

The anticipated ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, scheduled for Sunday morning at 08:30 local time (06:30 GMT), has been delayed. Ahram Online provides a live coverage of the events which could signal the start of the end of 470 days of a genocidal Israeli war that killed and wounded nearly 10 percent of the 2.

The UN has said that people in Gaza are “effectively starving.” Before the war, the territory was “largely self-sufficient” in fresh produce, it added. But Israel’s mili

The deal, mediated by the United States, offered a glimmer of hope in a conflict that has taken an immense human toll.