Live: Israel dropped 153 tonnes of bombs on Gaza on Sunday

US President Donald Trump said he believed the ceasefire that began in Gaza on Friday would hold as Israel and Hamas are "tired" of fighting.

"It'll hold. I think it'll hold. They're all tired of the fighting," Trump told reporters, confirming his plans to travel to Israel and mediator Egypt this weekend.

Trump said he would meet a "lot of leaders" in Egypt on Monday to discuss the future of devastated Gaza, adding that the meeting would likely be in Cairo.

He said he would also address the Israeli parliament when he visits the country earlier on the same day.

Trump said he was confident that the Gaza ceasefire would lead to a wider Middle East peace.

"Now we have some little hot spots, but they're very small... They'll be very easy to put out. Those fires are going to be put out very quickly," he added.

When US President Donald Trump touches down in the Middle East next week, he will take on a new role: chairman of the board.

Trump has put himself at the head of a committee that is expected to oversee Gaza. Experts say that putting aside the fact that Trump has made himself the final arbitrator of a territory whose people, the Palestinians, did not elect him, it could still bode well for the durability of the ceasefire now in effect.

“This has Trump’s imprimatur (guarantee),” David Schenker, a former senior US official now at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, told Middle East Eye. “He owns it and doesn’t want it to fail.”

The image of a vast board of stakeholders, all with their own objectives, somewhat captures the spirit of the ceasefire Trump has ushered in.

Read more: Has Trump's peace plan introduced new mediators to Israel-Palestine?

The National Campaign for the Retrieval of Palestinian and Arab War Victims’ Corpses and the Disclosure of the Fate of the Missing said Israeli authorities are holding the bodies of 735 people in cemeteries and morgues in Israel. 

The organisation said the cemeteries mark the bodies of Palestinians with numbers rather than names, and that 479 bodies have been withheld since the start of 2025, including 86 people who died in detention, 67 children and 10 women.

Some of the bodies of Palestinians were not returned after the 1967 war.

An American civil rights group on Friday called on the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize winner to renounce her support for Zionism and fascism, including over her links to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political party and right-wing groups in Europe.

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (Cair) said that they “strongly disagree” with the Nobel Prize committee’s decision to award the prize to Maria Corina Machado, who they said “delivered remarks at a conference of European fascists, including Geert Wilders and Marie Le Pen, which openly called for a new Reconquista, referencing the ethnic cleansing of Spanish Muslims and Jews in the 1500s”.

They said that if she failed to do so, they urged the Nobel Prize committee to “reconsider” its decision, saying that it had “undermined their own reputation” by selecting her.

Read more: Cair calls on Nobel Prize winner to renounce support for Zionism and fascism

Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine rejected in a joint statement on Friday any "foreign guardianship" in Gaza, stressing that its governance is a purely internal Palestinian matter.

They also expressed their readiness to benefit from Arab and international participation in the reconstruction of the war-torn enclave.

Social media users have accused former US President Barack Obama of dehumanising Palestinians and "bothsides-ing" genocide for a social media post about the announcement of a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas. 

"After two years of unimaginable loss and suffering for Israeli families and the people of Gaza, we should all be encouraged and relieved that an end to the conflict is within sight; that those hostages still being held will be reunited with their families; and that vital aid can start reaching those inside Gaza whose lives have been shattered," Obama posted on X on Thursday. 

He continued: "It now falls on Israelis and Palestinians, with the support of the US and the entire world community, to begin the hard task of rebuilding Gaza – and to commit to a process that, by recognizing the common humanity and basic rights of both peoples, can achieve a lasting peace."

Many users criticised the choice to reference "Israeli families" while referring to Palestinians as "the people of Gaza".

Read more: Gaza ceasefire: Obama is criticised for 'bothsides-ing' genocide

Gaza's Civil Defence Agency said that approximately 200,000 people have returned to the north of the territory since a ceasefire took effect on Friday.

"Approximately 200,000 people returned to northern Gaza today," Mahmud Bassal, spokesman for the agency, said.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz spoke with Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on the phone on Friday, praising Egypt's role in helping seek an end to Israel's war on Gaza and promising further German support.

"The Chancellor stressed that Germany would continue to engage with Egypt for the release of hostages, a stable ceasefire, humanitarian aid, and the reconstruction of Gaza," read a German government statement.

The United Nations children's agency has evacuated two of 18 newborns from a north Gaza hospital to be reunited with their parents further south, it said on Friday.

Its attempt to move two of the babies was suspended on Thursday amid an ongoing Israeli military assault on the city, Unicef said, but the children have since been reunited with their parents.

Israeli troops began pulling back from some parts of Gaza on Friday as a ceasefire took effect.

"We had 18 babies in incubators at the beginning of week. Two got moved yesterday," Unicef spokesperson Ricardo Pires told a Geneva press briefing, saying the others are waiting in incubators for transfer.

"I hope this is just an example of what will come after the ceasefire is fully implemented," he said.

Israel's Cogat, the arm of the Israeli military that oversees Gaza aid flows, confirmed that the two babies were transferred late on Thursday in coordination with Unicef.

An Israeli drone strike in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, killed at least two people around 6 pm local time on Friday, according to the Palestinian Civil Defence.

The bodies of seven Palestinians have been recovered from the Netzarim area in central Gaza, Al Jazeera reported, citing a hospital source. 

Gaza’s health ministry said at least 17 people have been killed and 71 wounded in Israeli attacks in the past 24 hours. 

Israel has given the green light to the United Nations to begin delivering aid into Gaza on Sunday, according to The Associated Press.

A UN official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the aid includes 170,000 metric tons already positioned in neighbouring countries such as Jordan and Egypt. Humanitarian officials are awaiting permission from Israeli forces to restart their work, he said.

The report came after the UN children's charity, Unicef, called on Friday for all crossings for food aid into Gaza to be opened, saying children in the territory were especially vulnerable because they have gone without proper food for long periods.

"The situation is critical. We risk seeing a massive spike in child death, not only neonatal, but also infants, given their immune systems are more compromised than ever before," said Unicef spokesperson Ricardo Pires.

The leaders of Britain, France and Germany on Friday urged the United Nations Security Council to give its "full backing" to the US-backed peace plan for Gaza.

"We agree that the UN Security Council should give its full backing to the plan and support its implementation," the so-called E3 group of nations said in a statement, as a ceasefire began and Israel started withdrawing troops from Gaza.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that Moscow backs US President Donald Trump’s plan to end Israel's war on Gaza.

Putin also said Russia may take part in the peace process, given that it has relations of trust with Arab countries and Palestinians.

Middle East Eye has obtained a copy of the agreement signed by Israel, Hamas and the mediators in Egypt to end the genocide in Gaza.

The document, which includes the signatures of several mediators, including US envoy Steve Witkoff, is titled the "Implementation Steps for President Trump's proposal for a 'Comprehensive End of Gaza War'."

It details six stages to the deal, beginning with US President Donald Trump's announcement that the war in Gaza has ended and that "the parties have agreed to implement the necessary steps to that end."

The second step states that "the war will immediately end upon the approval of the Israeli government." The Israeli government approved the first phase of the deal on Thursday.

The third step calls for the "immediate commencement of full entry of humanitarian aid and relief" into the Gaza Strip, while the fourth step says that the Israeli army [IDF] "will withdraw to lines agreed upon as per map X attached herewith, and this will be completed after President Trump’s announcement and within 24 hours of Israeli government approval.

Read more: Full text of the agreement signed by Israel and Hamas to 'end the war' on Gaza