Negotiations for the second phase of the Gaza ceasefire deal “will happen this week”, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar says, after Israel gave mixed signals about its engagement. Hamas leader in Gaza Khalil al-Hayya says four Israeli captives’ bodies will be handed over in the war-torn enclave on Thursday and six living abductees on Saturday as part of the precarious ceasefire agreement with Israel.

He discussed the plan with visiting U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who endorsed Israel's war aims in Gaza, saying Hamas “must be eradicated."

President Donald Trump alleged aid agency targeted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu channeled cash to Hamas.

Rep. Nick Langworthy, R-New York, is sending his condolences after Hamas revealed it was turning over the bodies of a mother and two young children that the terror group killed. Langworthy visited Israel shortly after the October 7 attacks.

Shiri Bibas, who was murdered by Hamas terrorists, while in captivity was not among the bodies returned to Israel and Hamas officials say it's the result of an Israeli air strike.

The United Nations rights chief said on Thursday the parading of bodies in Gaza is abhorrent and flies in the face of international law. Hamas handed over the bodies of Israeli infant Kfir Bibas and his four-year-old brother Airel,

Four Hamas members suspected of plotting attacks on Jewish institutions in Europe went on trial in Berlin on Tuesday, in what prosecutors described as the first court case against militants of the Islamist group in Germany.

A U.N. official says a Trump administration move to suspend funding to the World Health Organization has frozen $46 million for its operations in Gaza.

Lawsuit by October 7 victims names commissioner of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency and other executives of the organization.