Tulsi Gabbard makes surprise visit to Gaza ceasefire coordination center as 16 countries and 20 NGOs work together on Trump administration Middle East peace plan.

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The Israeli military attacked the Gaza Strip for a fourth day on Friday, killing three people, Palestinian health authorities said, in another test of a fragile ceasefire agreement.

Hundreds of thousands took to the streets of Jerusalem on Thursday to protest against efforts to end an exemption from military service for Israel’s Haredi religious students.

Gaza’s fragile ceasefire was back on track Wednesday, after Israel said it would halt a series of airstrikes that briefly raised doubts about whether the US-brokered deal would hold.

Israel’s military says the ceasefire is back on in Gaza after it carried out heavy airstrikes overnight across the Palestinian territory.

Israel said on Monday the remains of three hostages returned from Gaza the previous night belong to soldiers who were killed in the Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7, 2023 that triggered the war. The positive identification marked another step forward for the tenuous,

Under a compromise thrashed out in 1948 between Israel’s founder David Ben-Gurion and the ultra-Orthodox community, young Haredi men have for years been exempt from military service if they instead enrolled in a yeshiva, or religious school.