The death toll in the ongoing Israel-Palestinian conflict has exceeded 46,000 Palestinians, Gaza's Health Ministry reported on Thursday. The 15-month war has devastation the region's infrastructure and displaced nearly all of Gaza's population. Despite international mediation, efforts toward a ceasefire remain stalled.

A Hamas leader told Newsweek that "we can go to an agreement immediately" if Israel changed its course on negotiations.

Hamas stood by its demand on Tuesday that Israel fully end its assault on Gaza under any deal to release hostages, and said U.S. President-elect Donald Trump was rash to say there would be "hell to pay" unless they go free by his Jan.

It also said that women and children account for over half of the fatalities, and that more than 109,000 had been wounded - it did not say how many of those killed were fighters or civilians.

Officials of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency meet “routinely” with Lebanese and Gazan terror groups, “mutually praise each other for ‘cooperation’ and describe each other as

It will not be good for Hamas, and it will not be good, frankly, for anyone,” the president-elect warned during a press conference in Mar-a-Lago Tuesday.

Facing international condemnation and pressure to free the chief of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Israel released a brief interrogation video backing up its claim that militants used the hospital as a base.

On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas and other Iranian proxies invaded Israel, massacring more than 1200 people and taking hundreds of people hostage. In response, Israel launched a military operation in Gaza with the express aim of destroying the U.S.-designated terrorist group. For more than a year, many in the press have been regurgitating Hamas propaganda.

Israel says Hamas has not provided any information about the status of those 34 hostages, dampening any notion that the endorsement is a step toward a deal to stop the war.

Both Israel and Hamas are under pressure from outgoing President Biden and President-elect Donald Trump to reach a deal before the Jan. 20 inauguration.

For Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the deaths of family members persist even amid ongoing discussions of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. Fatma Abu Awad tragically lost six relatives on Tuesday due to two Israeli airstrikes that occurred just 15 minutes apart.