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Israel and Egypt preparing to reopen Rafah Crossing following Gaza ceasefire

However, the crossing will not be used to increase the flow of aid into the Strip

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Trucks loaded with humanitarian aid on the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing wait to cross into the Gaza Strip early on October 15, 2025 (Image: Getty)

Palestinians walk along Al-Rashid road toward Gaza City from Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip on October 10, 2025 (Image: Getty Images)

US recruiting Palestinians for interim Gaza government

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Inbar Hayman and Sergeant Major Muhammad Al-Atarash (Image: Times of Israel)

Body of final female hostage returned as Hamas delays further releases

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Members of the public and congregants seen as Police and other emergency responders attend the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue after a stabbing and car attack on Yom Kippur, on October 2, 2025 (Image: Getty)

Jonathan Goldstein

By Jonathan Goldstein

Fighting antisemitism is also about saving Britain’s soul

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Tamir Nimrodi (l) Eitan Levi (r) (Image: Bring them Home Now)

Hostages and Missing Families Forum

Hamas hands over four more bodies, but only three confirmed as Israeli hostages

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Avinatan Or, pictured with his parents, was held alone for the entire two years

Hostages ‘tortured, starved and kept in chains for two years’

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The bodies are saluted by IDF soldiers after arriving in Israel (Image: JNS)

Bodies of four dead hostages arrive in Israel – two names released

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Yaakov Lappin

By Yaakov Lappin

The real bottleneck in the Gaza deal is coming up

A failure of phase two could lead to resumption of war, former Israeli national security adviser Yaakov Amidror warns

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October 13, 2025 16:17

This picture taken during a media tour organised by the Israeli army on October 3, 2025, shows an Israeli army soldier behind a mounted machine gun in the vicinity of the Jordanian Field Hospital in Gaza City. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / POOL / AFP) (Photo by JACK GUEZ/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

The JC Leader

By The JC Leader

US backing for Israel freed the hostages. Can peace follow now?

With the hostages home, the path to Hamas’s irrelevance may at last come within reach

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October 13, 2025 16:11

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the Knesset as US President Donald Trump listens on (Photo: Getty Images)

Keir Starmer expresses ‘relief’ at hostages’ release as Downing Street pressed on UK’s role in Gaza ceasefire

The Prime Minister’s spokesman declined to elaborate on the ‘vital’ role played by the UK in getting to this point

By Lorin Bell-Cross

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October 13, 2025 14:11

Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas (centre) with Prime Minister Keir Starmer and France's President Emmanuel Macron, pictured at the Sharm El-Sheikh summit (Photo: Getty)

Ronit Levine-Schnur

By Ronit Levine-Schnur

Trump should take Netanyahu to Sharm el-Sheikh on Air Force One – for the future of the Middle East

The Israeli Prime Minister must stand alongside the US President at the summit in Egypt – not as a spectator but as a partner in shaping the post-war regional order

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October 12, 2025 16:10

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with US President Donald Trump prior to the President's departure from Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv on May 23, 2017 (Image: Getty)

Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner ‘confirm Israel’s compliance’ with phase one of Trump peace deal in Gaza visit

The US special envoys travelled to Gaza on Saturday, and also visited Hostages Square in Tel Aviv

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October 12, 2025 09:40

Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner (in black baseball cap) during a visit to the Gaza Strip with IDF chief of staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir (Photo: IDF)

‘Ridiculous’ Hackney councillors draw criticism over meeting to ‘berate Israel’ despite Gaza ceasefire

Councillors were accused of ‘playing gesture politics’

By Lorin Bell-Cross

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October 10, 2025 16:15

Pro-Palestine demonstrators outside Hackney town hall last year

Corbyn & Sultana’s Your Party accused of sharing ‘Hamas symbol’

A spokesperson for the CST said the post ‘tells you everything you need to know about the extremism at the heart of this movement’

By Lorin Bell-Cross

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October 9, 2025 15:28

A post by Corbyn and Sultana's party containing what CST say is a symbol associated with Hamas propaganda (Image: Screenshot/X).

Starmer welcomes Trump-brokered Gaza peace plan

‘This is a moment of profound relief that will be felt all around the world’

By Lorin Bell-Cross

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October 9, 2025 09:32

Sir Keir Starmer (left) in a press conference in Mumbai alongside Indian prime minister Narendra Modi (Image: Getty).

Who are the hostages due to be returned under the Gaza peace deal?

A total of 48 captives remain in the Strip, only 22 of whom are believed to be alive

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October 9, 2025 09:19

People look at photographs of hostages kidnapped by Hamas terrorists and taken to Gaza on October 7, 2023, at a succah in Paris, France, on October 7, 2025 (Image: Flash90)

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