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Egypt is working on different levels on security arrangements, including training and coordinating up to 5,000 Palestinian personnel to be deployed in Gaza, alongside Jordan, Egypt's foreign minister Badr Abdelatty said, speaking on CBS's Face the Nation.
"We are confident that the first phase of the trump peace plan will be completed and, in all honesty, from the two parties," Abdelatty said, adding that Egypt is in full contact with Hamas.
Egypt is also committing to send its troops within a "specific parameter," assuming the UN Security Council clears their specific mandate, he said.
The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Lebanon (Unifil) said Sunday that one of its members was wounded by an Israeli grenade dropped near a UN position in the country's south, the third incident of its kind in just over a month.
"Just before noon yesterday, an Israeli drone dropped a grenade that exploded near a Unifil position" in Kfar Kila, the force said in a statement published on Sunday.
"One peacekeeper was lightly injured and received medical assistance."
Earlier this month, Unifil said Israeli drones had dropped multiple grenades near peacekeepers providing security for workers clearing rubble left over from the war.
No Israeli representative will participate in the peace summit for Gaza hosted by Trump and el-Sisi in Sharm el-Sheikh.
“No Israeli official will attend,” Shosh Bedrosian, a spokeswoman for Netanyahu, told reporters on Sunday.
The Palestinian Authority is ready to work with US President Donald Trump and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair on their effort to consolidate the Gaza ceasefire and start rebuilding, a senior Palestinian official told Blair on Sunday.
Trump's proposal says Hamas must end its rule of Gaza and foresees the territory being run by a Palestinian technocratic committee supervised by an international body chaired by him and including Blair.
Hussein al-Sheikh, deputy head of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, said he had met Blair to discuss the day after in Gaza and making Trump's plan for "stopping the Gaza war and establishing lasting peace in the region a success".
"We have confirmed our readiness to work with President Trump, Mr Blair and the partners to consolidate the ceasefire, the entry of aid, the release of hostages and prisoners, and then start with the recovery and reconstruction," Sheikh wrote on X.
Israeli soldiers torched civilian infrastructure in Gaza in the immediate aftermath of Hamas and Israel signing the ceasefire agreement on Thursday, Drop Site News is reporting.
According to the report, Israeli troops set fire to food supplies, homes and a critical sewage plant in Gaza City on the night of 9 October and early morning 10 October, before Israel's cabinet had approved the agreement.
According to Drop Site, the scale of the arson was more extensive than any previous spree conducted by Israeli soldiers it had documented since October 2023. The report identified a number of the perpetrators as originating from several different brigades, including the Golani, Givati, Nahal Brigades, and the newly formed ultra-orthodox Hashmonaim Brigade.
Soldiers posted footage and videos of buildings engulfed in flames.
One soldier took a selfie in front of a pile of burning pallets containing food.
“On Friday, just before departure. Burning food so that it won’t reach the Gazans, may their names be erased,” the caption reads.
Before withdrawing, soldiers torched the Sheikh Ajlin Sewage Treatment Station, which is critical for Gaza City's sanitation network. In social media posts, soldiers posed in front of the burning plant; one caption read "[One] last memory".
Monther Shoblaq, Director General of the Coastal Municipalities Water Utility (CMWU) in Gaza said the attack could push the city's wastewater system "to point zero".
He warned that the destruction of the plant could delay reconstruction efforts by years.
“I mean, they signed a ceasefire,” Shoblaq said. “Why set it on fire?”
The Israeli army has raided the homes of several Palestinian prisoners in the occupied West Bank whose names were included in the list of prisoners to be released in an exchange deal following the Gaza ceasefire.
The raids on Sunday morning targeted the homes of several prisoners who were to be released, as well as prisoners who were to be deported to the Gaza Strip and Egypt. The raids included homes in Nablus, Ramallah, Hebron, Tulkarm and Qalqilya.
Israel agreed to release 250 Palestinian prisoners serving long sentences and life sentences, and 1,700 prisoners from the Gaza Strip captured during the war, in exchange for Hamas releasing all Israeli prisoners, both alive and dead.
Israel has refused to include Palestinian prisoner leaders in the deal, most notably Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, Secretary-General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) Ahmed Saadat, and Hamas leader Abdullah Barghouti, threatening to sabotage the agreement if Hamas continued to pressure mediators to release them.
The raids on Palestinian prisoner homes come as detainees are being transferred and Israeli preparations are underway to regroup them in Ofer and Naqab prisons, in preparation for their release to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
Read more: Israel raids homes of West Bank prisoners set to be released in deal
Al Jazeera is reporting that Israeli captives held in Gaza are set to be released from three different locations across the territory.
An Israeli government spokesperson confirmed that the 20 living Israeli captives were set to be released on Monday morning, and that the release of nearly 2000 Palestinian prisoners would be conducted shortly after.
The Israeli military raided the homes of the prisoners' families across the occupied West Bank, warning them not to celebrate the return of their loved ones.
The BBC reported that Hamas told mediators that it would release Israeli captives ahead of Monday's deadline if Israel included at least two of the names of seven high-profile Palestinian prisoners on the release list.
Israel unilaterally removed the name of Marwan Barghouti - the popular Palestinian political figure - from the prisoner exchange list, a source close to the prominent Palestinian prisoner told MEE.
A senior Palestinian official familiar with the talks told the BBC that US envoy Steve Witkoff had promised to raise the exclusion with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but Israel has refused to include the names.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that a mental health crisis is unfolding in Gaza, with over one million people now requiring urgent support and services falling far short of demand.
"Since Oct 2023, WHO has trained over 1,000 health workers in psychological first aid, trauma and grief management, child and adolescent mental health, and care for survivors of gender-based violence," the agency said in a post on X.
"As WHO scales up efforts to address urgent needs and rebuild the health system, expanding mental health services across all levels of care - from community to hospital - will be a central part of the response," it added.
"Lasting peace is essential to sustain any progress in improving health care, including mental health services. A permanent ceasefire must be secured."
While the #ceasefire brings long-awaited hope, the mental health impact of two years of conflict in #Gaza will endure for years and for some, a lifetime.
— WHO in occupied Palestinian territory (@WHOoPt) October 12, 2025
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US troops are stationed at an Israeli military base and are set to begin operations as soon as Sunday to monitor the implementation of the ceasefire deal in Gaza, Israel's Channel 12 is reporting.
According to the report, at least 200 US troops will be stationed at Hatzor Air Base in southern Israel, although US and Israeli authorities have yet to confirm the move.
An Israeli official told Channel 12 that further withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza is currently not under discussion, although another official reported that US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and his team had begun drawing up maps to plan the withdrawal.
In a post on X, Witkoff said that he had visited Gaza along with US Central Command's Admiral Bradley and Jared Kushner "to verify Israel's compliance with Phase I of the agreement".
The release of Israeli captives held in Gaza is set to begin early on Monday morning, an Israeli government spokesperson has confirmed.
She added that the 20 living captives will all be freed at the same time, and that the release of the Palestinian prisoners would take place after the captives are received.
The release of the bodies of 28 captives is expected to follow.
Gaza's health ministry has reported that hospitals across the Strip have received the bodies of 124 people, including 117 which were recovered from the rubble, in the last 24 hours.
It added that 33 people had been wounded.
The latest figures bring the overall toll of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in its two-year-long genocide in Gaza to 67,806, with 170,066 others wounded.
As a fragile ceasefire takes hold in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, another military actor in the region has also apparently halted hostilities: the Houthis in Yemen.
Its leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi reportedly ordered fighters to stop the attacks on Israel and Israeli-linked ships, which the group had carried out intermittently for two years.
The halt would only hold as long as Israel continued to observe the ceasefire in Gaza, a source told Saudi media.
That condition underscores a position of strength: the Houthis have consistently carried out attacks in solidarity with Palestinians without the need to negotiate with Israel - directly or indirectly - about a truce.
Across two years of Israeli wars in the region and the genocide in Gaza, a number of groups have taken up arms in response.
That includes Hamas and other armed groups in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, and Iran.
All these groups, including Israel itself, have suffered immensely. The conflict has taken its toll militarily and economically, as well as in terms of devastating civilian harm.
While the war has raised existential questions around the future role of some of these groups, like Hamas and Hezbollah, the de facto government in Yemen has in fact increased in relevance.
Its steadfastness in its attacks on Israel and international shipping, analysts have told Middle East Eye, made the world sit up and take notice, and gave the group a narrative victory both at home and abroad.
Read more: How the Houthis came out on top after Israel's multi-front war
A review conducted by Palestinian attorneys has revealed that only 63 of the 250 Palestinian prisoners slated for release on Monday are Hamas members.
Among them, 18 are serving life sentences, 26 are detainees and 16 are serving shorter sentences.
According to the review, among the 191 prisoners set for release who are serving life sentences, 150 are affiliated with Fatah, 18 with Hamas, and 23 with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Islamic Jihad.
Hamas has informed Israel that it is prepared to begin releasing the 20 living Israeli captives held in Gaza as early as Sunday, the Wall Street Journal is reporting, citing sources familiar with the matter.
Israeli security sources said that the group had started moving captives to assembly points in Gaza, although it remains unclear whether they will be released from multiple locations or a single point.
Meanwhile, the Directorate for Hostages, Missing Persons and Returnees at the Israeli prime minister's office said on Sunday that preparations to receive the remaining living captives have been completed.
The Palestinian Authority (PA) was not invited to participate in the Gaza Peace Summit which will be held in Egypt's Sharm el-Sheikh on Monday, a source told al-Araby al-Jadeed.
An unnamed senior Palestinian official told the news site that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi did not respond to a request by the PA to "reaffirm that the Palestinian leadership remains the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people".
According to the source, the PA were not invited as it was not included in US President Donald Trump's peace plan for Gaza.
Some 20 countries are set to attend Monday's summit, which will be co-chaired by Trump and Sisi.
