More than a month after US President Donald Trump announced a ceasefire in Gaza, a key component of his plan has yet to materialize. The plan calls for a multinational force to stabilize the battered enclave,

US President Trump says "nothing" will jeopardise the two-week-old ceasefire despite the flare-up of violence.

Regional players are unlikely to want their forces to “fight Hamas or get caught in the crossfire,” a former U.S. ambassador to Israel told NBC News.

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

Foreign ministers of some Muslim countries will meet in Istanbul on Monday to discuss the Gaza ceasefire and next steps there, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Friday, voicing concern over whether the ceasefire will continue.

"It requires a lot of patience and a lot of persistence, and this is what we were made for," ICRC President Mirjana Spoljaric Egger told Newsweek.

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,