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IDF announces capture of one of Hamas's top remaining commanders during overnight operations

The capture happened after Friday's strike, in which three out of eight Hamas terrorists were killed while leaving a tunnel in Rafah, the military announced.

Hamas terrorists stand at a site as Hamas says it continues to search for the body of the last deceased hostage, in Gaza City December 8, 2025.
Hamas members stand at the funeral of Marwan Issa, a senior Hamas deputy military commander who was killed in an Israeli airstrike during the conflict between Israel and Hamas, in the central Gaza Strip, February 7, 2025.

IDF strikes eight terrorists emerging from tunnel in Rafah, kills three

Tents sheltering displaced Palestinians in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

Israel plans large camp for Palestinians in southern Gaza, retired general says

A vehicle carries Egyptian soldiers near the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, in Rafah, Egypt, August 6, 2025

Rafah Border Crossing will be test for Gaza’s next stage - analysis


WATCH: GHF's strategic role in Gaza’s food aid: IDF's new centers push back Hamas influence

The GHF does provide absolute numbers of meals, with those numbers reaching up to around 139 million meals over three months, with an average of around 2.3 million meals per week.

A Palestinian woman carries a box as people seek aid supplies from the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), in the central Gaza Strip, August 4, 2025.

'As if it all happened yesterday': Families mark anniversary of hostages murdered by Hamas in Rafah

"The cycles of grief are widening. Put the ego aside. Stop the war. Bring back all the hostages and allow us, as a family and as a nation, to lift our heads, mourn less, and smile more.”

 Carmel Gat, Eden Yerushalmi, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Ori Danino, Alexander Lobanov and Almog Sarusi.

Hamas pressures Egypt over Gaza aid Access, risking confrontation with Israel

Hamas's public calls for the complete opening of the Rafah crossing put a strain on Egypt's Sisi, as he feel his authority is being undermined.

 Hamas terrorists  in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. February 22, 2025.

Egypt's Sisi: Israel commiting 'genocide', warns history will judge nations over Gaza

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi also rejected claims that Egypt is complicit in the blockade of the Gaza Strip.

President of Egypt Abdel Fattah al-Sisi attends the 34th Arab League summit, in Baghdad, Iraq, May 17, 2025; illustrative.

Witkoff: GHF visit to allow Trump to craft a food, aid delivery plan to the people of Gaza

The visit follows Witkoff's arrival in Israel on Thursday and meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as ceasefire negotiations with Hamas have stalled. 

US Ambassador Mike Huckabee and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff visit the US-launched Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's aid site in Rafah, southern Gaza, August 1, 2025.

Pro-Palestinian protesters target Egyptian embassies, demand an end to Gaza 'siege'

Footage from Cairo’s London embassy showed activists blocking the doors of the building. 

A demonstrator holds signs during a protest against hunger crisis in Gaza, near the embassy of Egypt in Beirut, Lebanon July 23, 2025.

IDF says Gaza terrorists launched rockets at aid distribution site in Rafah

The rocket fell approximately 250 meters from the aid distribution site adjacent to the Morag Corridor in the Rafah area.

Palestinians gather to collect aid supplies after trucks loaded with aid entered from Israel through central Gaza, in Gaza City, July 22, 2025

Sources: Potential Hamas deal may lead to withdrawal to Jan. Gaza security perimeter

In January, the IDF withdrew from all deeper portions of Gaza it had been in, in Gaza City, Khan Yunis, Rafah, and central Gaza to a security perimeter of around 700-1,100 meters around the border

 IDF troops operate in the Gaza Strip, July 20, 2025; illustrative.

Significant progress in hostage talks following further Israeli flexibility, sources tell 'Post'

A meeting was held between the Israeli delegation and the Qatari and Egyptian delegations on Wednesday, in which Israel presented new maps that included additional Israeli concessions.

 Israelis attend a rally calling for the release of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, outside the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, July 13, 2025.

Gaza hostage talks stalled by Knesset recess, not IDF troop placement - analysis

It seems that Netanyahu purposely waited to pull out the Morag Corridor issue to temporarily muddy talks just a bit longer until it is closer to the Knesset recess date of July 27.

 IDF soldiers operate in the Morag Corridor, in the southern Gaza Strip.