President Donald Trump’s Gaza ceasefire plan is set to enter a new phase within weeks, but crucial pieces of the agreement remain undefined as Israel tightens its military grip on the battered enclave.

Hamas' chief negotiator Khalil Al-Hayya said on Sunday that a targeted assassination by Israel on Saturday of one of the group's senior commanders threatens the "viability of the truce" in the enclave.

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) on Saturday said it killed one of Hamas’s top commanders in Gaza, the highest-profile assassination amid Israel and the designated terrorist

The strike is the latest incident to strain the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas brokered by US President Donald Trump, which took effect in October. The truce ended more than two years of fighting in the bloodiest war in the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Kremlin foreign policy aide Yury Ushakov said on Friday that a ceasefire in Ukraine is only possible after Kyiv's forces withdraw from the entire Donbas region, with the area they currently control taken over by Russian National Guard,

Analysts warn that Phase 2 of the ceasefire presents a host of complex challenges that could slow or even stall the process.

Archaeologists finished excavating foundations of the ancient wall that surrounded Jerusalem when the story of Hanukkah took place.

President Donald Trump says Thai and Cambodian leaders have agreed to renew a truce after days of deadly clashes threatened to undo a ceasefire he helped broker earlier this year

Germany will host U.S. and Ukrainian delegations over the weekend for talks on a ceasefire in Ukraine, before a summit with European leaders and President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Berlin on Monday, a German official said.