Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeated a demand on Sunday for Hamas to disarm and for its leaders to leave Gaza.

Israeli airstrikes on a tent and home housing displaced people in southern Gaza has killed 10 people, including children, as Palestinians observed the first day of Eid-al-Fitr, rescuers said.

As Israel gears up for renewed fighting with goal of holding territory in Gaza, most opinion polls show public wants cease-fire to continue.

Israel has proposed an extended truce in Gaza in exchange for the return of about half the remaining hostages, Israeli officials said.

New research shows that Hamas has quietly dropped thousands of deaths from its Gaza war casualty figures. Salo Aizenberg, from the US-based non-profit organisation Honest Reporting, said that Hamas ’s March 2025 casualty update had removed thousands of people it previously listed as having been killed last year.

The Israeli military will expand its ground operation in Gaza to occupy 25% of the enclave over the next two to three weeks, a senior Israeli official said in a briefing with reporters on Monday. Why it matters: The Israeli official said the ground operation is part of a "maximum pressure" campaign aimed at forcing Hamas to agree to release more hostages.