The Latest Breaking News on Gaza peace plan risks borrowing more from Tony Blair’s failures in the Middle East than his success in Northern Ireland

When Donald Trump called Benjamin Netanyahu on October 4 to tell him that Hamas had agreed to at least some of his 20-point ceasefire plan, the Israeli prime minister’s equivocal response was he saw “nothing to celebrate, and that it doesn’t mean anything”. According to reports, the US president fired…

IN FOCUS: Donald Trump says that the ceasefire agreement is in its second phase – but details remain unclear, James C. Reynolds reports

Israel has agreed to withdraw troops to a line agreed upon by both sides as hostages are to be released

Israel and Hamas on Thursday agreed a Gaza ceasefire deal to free the remaining living hostages, in a major step towards ending a war that has killed tens of thousands of people and unleashed a humanitarian catastrophe.

France on Thursday hosts foreign ministers from Arab and European countries for talks on helping the Palestinians once the Gaza conflict between Israel and Hamas ends, a meeting that comes hours after the two sides agreed a ceasefire deal.

France on Thursday hosts foreign ministers from Arab and European countries for talks on helping the Palestinians once the Gaza conflict between Israel and Hamas ends, a meeting that comes hours after the two sides agreed a ceasefire deal.

The EU has been lambasted as "irrelevant" by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a recent interview for Euronews.

After two years of violence and the deaths of 68,000 Palestinians and more than 1,200 Israelis, most of them civilians, it has been reported that Hamas and the Netanyahu government will sign a phase 1 ceasefire agreement. This is the first part of a 20-point plan promoted by the US…

Donald Trump has long lobbied for the accolade and could be closer than ever to getting it