The Latest Breaking News on Palestinian-Aussie medico's grave doubts for peace plan

A new US president, focused on domestic priorities, criticizes his predecessor as too hard on Israel but soon takes on the mantle of peace and reaches a deal heralded around the world.

The Prime Minister also paid tribute to the families of the hostages, who he said had ‘endured terrible and protracted pain over the last two years’.

PM tells Commons that ceasefire between Israel and Hamas only first tentative step to peace in the Middle East

Hamas accused of breaching agreement by withholding bodies of hostages but Palestinian militants say they face obstacles in retrieving them

US President Donald Trump's lightning summit in Egypt, meant to cement a ceasefire in Gaza, was more a celebration of one man's newfound peacemaker persona than a high-level political negotiation, according to diplomats.

Liberal Democrat MP Layla Moran revealed on X last year that her family fled the conflict in Gaza.

Following the Middle East summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Donald Trump’s Gaza ceasefire deal has been compared in the media to the Good Friday agreement which brought an end to the conflict in Northern Ireland and the Dayton accords which achieved a (so far) lasting peace in the Balkans. The fact…

The world’s media are currently busy recording the tales of released Israeli hostages, freed Palestinian prisoners and their families after a ceasefire came into effect for the war in Gaza. But they are doing so while still being held at a distance from the centre of the story.

Hamas has also been filmed carrying out public executions of men accused of ‘collaborating’ with Israeli forces