The United Nations and the international Red Cross called on Tuesday for all crossings into Gaza to be opened to allow desperately needed aid into the Israeli-blockaded Palestinian territory.
The fragile truce in war-ravaged Gaza, introduced under US President Donald Trump's plan, needs to see crossings opened to flood the famine-hit territory with aid, they said.
MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Kremlin on Tuesday said it welcomed U.S. President Donald Trump's desire to focus on the search for a peace settlement to end the conflict in Ukraine after achieving a ceasefire in Gaza.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that Russia remained open to talks and hoped that the U.S. could bring its influence to bear on Ukraine in pursuit of a peace deal.
(Reporting by Reuters, Writing by Felix LightEditing by Andrew Osborn)
GENEVA (Reuters) -There are promising early indications from countries, including the United States as well as Arab and European states, about their willingness to contribute to the $70 billion cost of rebuilding Gaza, a United Nations Development Programme official said on Tuesday.
“We’ve had very good indications already," UNDP's Jaco Cilliers told reporters at a press conference in Geneva, without giving details. He estimated that the two-year Israel-Hamas war had generated at least 55 million tons of rubble.
(Reporting by Emma FargeEditing by Madeline Chambers)
(Reuters) -Israel's military said it opened fire on Tuesday to remove a threat posed by suspects who approached its forces in the northern Gaza Strip, and health authorities in the enclave said at least six Palestinians had been killed by Israeli fire.
The military said the suspects had crossed a boundary for an initial Israeli pullback under a U.S.-brokered ceasefire plan, in a violation of the deal.
Gaza's local health authority said the Israeli military killed six Palestinians in two separate incidents across the enclave on Tuesday.
By Gram Slattery, Alexander Cornwell and Humeyra Pamuk
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump, a self-proclaimed peacemaker who has campaigned for a Nobel Prize, finally got a camera-ready diplomatic victory on Monday as world leaders flew to Egypt for the signing of the ceasefire and hostage-release deal he brokered between Israel and Hamas.
But if lasting peace is to take root, analysts and diplomats say, Trump will have to maintain pressure on the man whose support he'll need in the next phases of his plan: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Donald Trump took a victory lap in the Middle East on Monday -- though the ceasefire deal he was there to celebrate could be just the start of a long road towards lasting peace.
In Israel the 79-year-old basked in a standing ovation from parliament, before travelling to Egypt for a Gaza summit where he was applauded by world leaders.
"The prayers of millions have finally been answered," Trump declared in the Egyptian resort town of Sharm El-Sheikh with his counterparts lined up behind him. "At long last, we have peace in the Middle East."
By Andrew MacAskill
LONDON (Reuters) -Britain's domestic spy agency MI5 issued a rare public warning to members of parliament on Monday that they are being targeted by spies from China, Russia and Iran in an attempt to undermine the country's democracy.
The warning comes a week after prosecutors said they had to abandon the trial of two British men charged with spying on members of parliament for China because the British government had not provided evidence showing China was a threat to its national security.
By Maayan Lubell
JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Former Israeli hostage Noa Argamani — whose desperate cries on the back of a motorcycle became one of the most haunting images of the Hamas October 7, 2023, attack — was reunited on Monday with her newly freed boyfriend, Avinatan Or.
A government video showed Or, 32, first hugging and kissing his parents as his mother Ditza chants the Jewish "shehecheyanu" blessing voicing gratitude for new experiences on his return from two years of Hamas captivity in Gaza.
By Olivia Le Poidevin and Francois Murphy
GENEVA/VIENNA (Reuters) -Eurovision Song Contest organisers will no longer meet online in November to vote on Israel's participation in the competition, following Middle East "developments", the European Broadcasting Union said on Monday in an apparent reference to the Gaza ceasefire.
Austria had appealed to countries not to boycott next year's contest - due to be held in Vienna - over Israel's participation and concerns about the two-year-old Gaza conflict.
CAIRO (Reuters) -Mediators Egypt, Qatar and Turkey signed on Monday with U.S. President Donald Trump a document on the Gaza ceasefire deal.
The document was signed during the international summit hosted by Egypt in the Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh on the deal.
(Reporting by Menna Alaa El-Din and Jaidaa Taha; Editing by Hugh Lawson)
