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The American envoy Steve Witkoff has indicated he wants to explore the idea of extending phase one, which is the Israeli position,
That’s been left up in the air as the mediators try to contain this crisis and prevent a return to fighting that will bring nothing but further devastation to the people of Gaza,
Ramadan has come this year, and we are on the streets with no shelter, no work, no money, nothing,
said Ali Rajih, a resident of the hard-hit Jabalia camp in north Gaza The second phase of the ceasefire agreement is supposed to begin tomorrow morning, Sunday ... but the occupation is still procrastinating and continuing to violate the agreement,
But I think the ceasefire probably won't collapse also,
At this fragile moment, we must avoid a resumption of hostilities that would deepen the suffering and further destabilize a region that is already perched on a knife's edge,
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in an X post on Friday The relevant parties have begun intensive talks to discuss the next phases of the truce agreement, amid ongoing efforts to ensure the implementation of the previously agreed understandings."
On Thursday, Egypt's State Information Service said For a year and four months my legs were shackled with chains with very, very heavy locks that cut into your flesh,
The ceasefire and hostage release deal must hold. The coming days are critical. The parties must spare no effort to avoid a breakdown of this deal,
Guterres said in New York Each moment the ceasefire holds means more people reached and more lives saved,
I doubt anyone in Gaza will want to go back to war,
Nobody really knows, but we'll see what happens
Asked whether the ceasefire deal would move into the second phase, Trump said He will try with all of his might to bring back all the hostages, whether it’s second phase or another phase or another kind of deal,
The IDF retreat from Philadelphi – that’s a big deal. It’s a big asset to Israel, so I don’t know what will happen,
He looks half the man he was. He looks starved. He looks exhausted,
I count on him to bring the hostages back and I think he understands that to bring them back is … something which goes to the core of the Jewish nation and the ethos of the Israeli state – solidarity and leaving no one behind.”
As for Netanyahu, he said We are right now in this weird moment where a lot depends on the pressure that the families can put on the government but also on the public,
It only drives us to do more, to speak with more people, to keep lobbying, to make him more visible – as visible as we can make him,
We have already done our duties according to the deal, and we are ready to continue implementing the deal,
Israel has been telling us for months now, with word and deed, that it doesn’t actually intend to end the war,
Mohamad Elmasry, a political analyst at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, told Al Jazeera
