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Israel strikes Gaza after Trump calls for end to bombardment

By Nidal al-Mughrabi

CAIRO/GAZA (Reuters) -Israel struck Gaza on Saturday, local authorities said, after U.S. President Donald Trump had called for a halt to the bombing and said Hamas is ready for peace, agreeing to release hostages and accepting some other terms in a U.S. plan to end the war.

Israeli fire killed six people across Gaza Strip, local authorities said. One strike killed four people in a house in Gaza City while another killed two others in Khan Younis in the south, medical workers and local authorities said.

Displaced Palestinian children shelter on the side of a raod, after Hamas agreed to release hostages and accept some other terms in a U.S. plan to end the war, in the central Gaza Strip, October 4, 2025. REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas

How the Gaza aid flotilla used cameras and data to win global attention

By Edward McAllister and Anna Uras

ATHENS (Reuters) -When armed Israeli soldiers boarded a flotilla of boats trying to deliver food and medicine to Gaza on Wednesday night, two web developers in Glasgow scrambled to keep track of the vessels as millions of people worldwide tuned in to monitor their fate.

A screengrab from a live stream video shows crew raise their hands after Israeli navy forces boarded the Gaza-bound vessel Florida, part of the Global Sumud Flotilla, which flotilla organisers report has been intercepted, October 2, 2025. Global Sumud Flotilla/Handout via REUTERS

Factbox-Comparing Hamas response with Trump's Gaza plan

By Kanishka Singh

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Hamas responded on Friday to President Donald Trump's plan for Gaza's future, including ending Israel's war in the enclave.

The Palestinian militant group accepted certain key parts of the Trump plan, including ending the war, Israel's withdrawal, the release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian captives, aid and recovery efforts, and an opposition to Palestinian expulsion from the territory.

Palestinians inspect the site of an evacuated house, after it was hit by an Israeli air strike, in Gaza City, September 12, 2025. REUTERS/Ebrahim Hajjaj

Trump says Hamas ready for peace, tells Israel to stop bombing Gaza

US President Donald Trump said Friday he believed Hamas was ready for "lasting peace" and told Israel to stop bombing Gaza, after the Palestinian militant group declared it was ready to free hostages under his ceasefire plan.

Trump's statement marked the first time since his return to power in January that he has explicitly called on key US ally Israel -- which has yet to react -- to halt its bombardment.

US President Donald Trump said he believed Hamas was ready for 'lasting peace'

Hamas says it agrees to release all Israeli hostages under Trump Gaza plan

(Reuters) -Hamas said on Friday it had agreed to release all Israeli hostages, alive or dead, under the terms of U.S. President Donald Trump's Gaza proposal, and signalled readiness to immediately enter mediated negotiations to discuss the details.

(Reporting by Nidal Al Mughrabi, Yomna Ehab and Ahmed Tolba; Editing by Leslie Adler)

Smoke rises during an Israeli military operation in Gaza City, as seen from the central Gaza Strip, October 2, 2025. REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas

Hamas agrees to some of Trump's plan but seeks negotiations

By Nidal al-Mughrabi

CAIRO (Reuters) -Hamas said on Friday it would agree to some aspects of U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to end the Gaza war, including releasing hostages and handing over administration of the enclave, but that it would seek negotiations over many of its other terms.

Smoke rises during an Israeli military operation in Gaza City, as seen from the central Gaza Strip, October 2, 2025. REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas

US judge dismisses lawsuit accusing UN agency of aiding Hamas attack on Israel

By Jonathan Stempel

NEW YORK (Reuters) -A U.S. judge dismissed a lawsuit by dozens of Israelis who accused the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees of funneling more than $1 billion that aided Hamas' October 7, 2023 attack on Israel.

U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres in Manhattan said the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) had "absolute immunity" from the lawsuit because it is a subsidiary of the United Nations, which has immunity from such lawsuits.

A Palestinian man carries an aid box distributed by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Deir Al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, November 4, 2024. REUTERS/Ramadan Abed

Swiss to protest over curtailed visit to Gaza flotilla nationals detained in Israel

By Olivia Le Poidevin and Emma Farge

GENEVA (Reuters) -Switzerland will file a diplomatic protest to Israel after Israeli security forces cut short a visit by Swiss diplomats to imprisoned detainees from the Gaza aid flotilla, the Swiss foreign ministry said on Friday.

"Due to various incidents, the Israeli security authorities interrupted the visit, preventing the Swiss embassy representatives from talking at length with the group of Swiss nationals," the ministry said in a statement.

Israeli officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators protest to condemn the Israeli forces', after Israel intercepted some of the vessels of the Global Sumud Flotilla aiming to reach Gaza and break Israel's naval blockade, in Geneva, Switzerland, October 2, 2025. The banner reads : Solidarity with attacked flotilla and massacred Gaza. REUTERS/Olivia Le Poidevin

Young Moroccans protest for 7th day in a row

Youth-led protests demanding reforms to public healthcare and education took place on Friday in several Moroccan cities for a seventh day in a row, an AFP journalist and local media reported.

The protests, called by the online-based GenZ 212 group whose organisers remain unknown, also called on the kingdom's premier to resign.

"Our voices will not be silenced," read a sign held by a protester in Rabat, the Moroccan capital where dozens of people gathered in front of parliament.

Protesters want reforms in public healthcare and education