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I hope it will happen so we'll be able to cook in our homes and make whatever food we want, without having to go to soup kitchens and exhaust ourselves for three or four hours trying to get (food) - sometimes not even making it home,
displaced Palestinian Reeham Sheikh al-Eid said
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was informed by the negotiating team that agreements have been reached on a deal to release the hostages,
his office said in a statementLife has become an unbearable hell,
said resident Jomaa Abed al-AalDust and screams surrounded me,
Ahmed said, recalling the aftermath of the strike,
They were sleeping happily with the news of the truce,
one man told NBC News’ crew of the victims of the strikesIs this what they aim for? Killing doctors?”
he saidIsraeli attacks and demolitions by combat engineers and military bulldozers [have rendered] much of the Strip uninhabitable, clearly constituting ethnic cleansing in some areas and violating Palestinians’ right to return.”
In its 2025 world report, HRW said
No other army in the world has ever taken such wide-ranging measures,
the official saidThe EU is ready to support the implementation of the ceasefire,
EU foreign affairs spokesman Anouar El-Anouni told reporters at a briefing
Now we need to see what the future holds,
El-Anouni saidBy itself, the ceasefire agreement, although an important first step, is not enough, and it will easily collapse unless there is this broader political track to support it,
he stressedEuropean governments working in partnership with Arab countries, especially Arab Gulf countries, should positively engage with the Trump administration,
Lovatt saidThis remains dependent on full consent from both sides, and on a decision from the EU member states,
he stressedThe threat scenario that Trump created may well also have played a role."
However, Thimm addedIf those hostages aren't back by the time I get into office, all hell will break out in the Middle East,
he saidWe are counting the minutes and even the seconds for the implementation of the ceasefire on the ground,
said Rami Morjan, a university chemistry professor displaced from northern Gaza City to central Deir al-Balah
We are used to the last hours being difficult and dangerous,
he addedWe are very worried about permanently losing our lands that we bought and paid everything for,
she added
We see and expect that the coming hours before the ceasefire will be bloody and harsh,
said Dr Raed Musleh, 52, an internal medicine doctor, himself homeless and displaced in the southern city of Khan Younis, where he said medics lacked medicines to treat the woundedThe coming hours will be very difficult if Israel continues this pace of bombing—which has already killed 77 people since the agreement was announced,
he said