Israel’s intense bombardment of the Gaza Strip this week marked the most serious challenge yet for a fragile, U.S.-brokered ceasefire.

Palestinians fetch water in the Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City, Oct. 28, 2025. Palestinians may have to wait hours for a small amount of water, which is largely unavailable due to damage to water networks caused by Israeli bombing during the war. (Photo by Rizek Abdeljawad/Xinhua)

CAIRO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump hopes to finalize a Gaza peace plan proposal in a meeting on Monday with Israel's Prime Minister, Trump told Reuters on Sunday, as Israeli tanks pushed deeper into Gaza City and the military wing of Hamas said it had lost contact with two hostages held there.

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Life is slowly returning to Gaza City in the ceasefire, even as many worry war could return.

At the end of October, documentary film lovers in Lisbon had the chance to attend DocLisboa International Film Festival. Among the many films screened, two stood out for the quiet power with which they depict vanishing worlds and the people who inhabit them.

This comes after Hamas claimed that it uncovered the remains of two hostages during excavations in Gaza City on Tuesday evening. The Red Cross is en route to the Gaza Strip to collect the remains of two hostages from Hamas,

Throngs of people lined up outside the Bank of Palestine branch in Gaza City, anxiously waiting to see if they would finally be able to access their funds for the first time in two years of war. Two of the bank’s branches reopened their doors in Gaza this month,