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Mourners carry the body of Raid Saad, a commander of the Al-Qassam Brigades, during his funeral in the Al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, Gaza on December 14, 2025. Saad was killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a car west of Gaza City, according to Hamas. The strike occurred amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. (Photo by Abood Abusalama / Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images)

Hamas says Israel jeopardizes ceasefire after killing senior commander

Hamas confirmed the death of Raed Saad, a senior commander who was killed by an Israeli explosive device, as the two sides approach phase two of the fragile ceasefire.

(Background) In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, US special envoy Steve Witkoff and US President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner attend a meeting with Russia's President at the Kremlin in Moscow on December 2, 2025. (Photo by Kristina Kormilitsyna / POOL / AFP via Getty Images) / (R) In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia's President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with US special envoy Steve Witkoff and US President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner (both not pictured) at the Kremlin in Moscow on December 2, 2025. (Photo by Alexander KAZAKOV / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump Envoy meets Putin in Moscow as U.S. continues push for end to Ukraine-Russia War

U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin and other Russian officials at the Kremlin on Tuesday, in the latest White House bid to persuade Moscow to end its ongoing invasion of Ukraine — just hours after Putin declared Russia would be “ready right away” to fight Europe if attacked.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky (R) and Head of the Office of the Presidency of Ukraine Andriy Yermak (L) during their meeting at the Zarzuela Palace in Madrid on November 18, 2025. Ukraine and the US are launching talks in Switzerland on ways to end the war, a Ukrainian negotiator said on November 22, 2025, after Washington sent Kyiv a plan which accepts some of Moscow's demands. Zelensky appointed his top aide, Andriy Yermak, to lead the team, according to a presidential decree. (Photo by Oscar DEL POZO / AFP via Getty Images)

Zelensky’s chief of staff and lead negotiator in U.S. talks resigns after anti-corruption investigators search his home, office

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has announced the resignation of Andriy Yermak, his longtime chief of staff and the country’s most influential official after himself. The move came just hours after anti-corruption investigators searched Yermak’s residence and office in connection with a massive embezzlement probe.

TOPSHOT - Smoke billows following an Israeli strike that targeted a building in the Bureij camp for Palestinian refugees in the central Gaza Strip on October 19, 2025. Gaza's civil defence agency said a series of Israeli air strikes on October 19 killed at least 11 people across the territory, as Israel and Hamas traded blame for violating a ceasefire. (Photo by Eyad BABA / AFP) (Photo by EYAD BABA/AFP via Getty Images)

Hamas attacks IDF soldiers, Israel responds with airstrikes

The Israeli military carried out numerous strikes in the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday after accusing Hamas terrorists of shooting at IDF soldiers. The escalation of violence potentially places the U.S.-led ceasefire deal in jeopardy.

(R) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on October 12, 2023. Blinken arrived in a show of solidarity after Hamas's surprise weekend onslaught in Israel, an AFP correspondent travelling with him reported. He is expected to visit Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as Washington closes ranks with its ally that has launched a withering air campaign against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip. (Photo by JACQUELYN MARTIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) / (Background) Vehicles transporting the bodies of four hostages handed over following a ceasefire and prisoner exchange deal between Israel and Palestinian factions in Gaza arrive at the National Center for Forensic Medicine in Tel Aviv on October 15, 2025. The Israeli military said October 15, 2025 the Red Cross was on its way to collect the remains of several hostages held by Palestinian militant groups in Gaza. "The Red Cross is on its way to the meeting point in the southern Gaza Strip, where several coffins of deceased hostages will be transferred into their custody," it said in a statement (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP) (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images)

IDF: One body returned by Hamas not that of a hostage, further complicating ceasefire

The Israeli military announced on Wednesday that one of the bodies handed over by the terrorist group Hamas the day before is “not that of a known hostage,” heightening tensions over the nerve-wracking ceasefire and hostage exchange deal.

A Qassam Brigades militant stands guard as a crowd of Palestinians watches a vehicle of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) carrying Israeli hostages leave the area south of Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip to handover the released Israelis on October 13, 2025. Israel said that the last 20 living hostages released by Hamas on October 13 had arrived in the country. (Photo by Bashar TALEB / AFP) (Photo by BASHAR TALEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Israel receives 4 coffins of deceased hostages, accusing Hamas of breaching agreement after pledging 28 deceased bodies

Israeli forces received the coffins of four deceased hostages from Hamas on Monday evening, according to officials. The remains were handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), which then transferred them to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) at the Kerem Shalom crossing.