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🚨BREAKING: Hamas and Palestinian Factions Agree to Gaza Ceasefire Framework

“From our side, yes,” a senior Hamas official told Drop Site News’ @jeremyscahill.com

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BREAKING: Hamas and Palestinian Factions Agree to Gaza Ceasefire Framework

“From our side, yes,” a senior Hamas official told Drop Site News.

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Video: Rapid Response 47 via X (@RapidResponse47)

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REPORT | Donald Trump phoned into Fox to claim credit for what he calls “peace in the Middle East,” tying the Gaza deal to his trade wars, military strikes, and his pressure on Iran. He presented himself as the architect of a global realignment—one that brings Israel, Arab states, and even Iran...

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🟢 Breaking: Hamas announced Thursday morning that it has formally submitted lists of Palestinian “prisoners” to be included in the ceasefire agreement currently under negotiation. The movement said the lists were prepared “according to the agreed-upon criteria” as part of the framework deal...

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Photos: وكالة سوا الإخبارية (Sawa News Agency) via X (@palsawa)

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Some photographs from the negotiations in the linked post below, including the delegation from Palestine, led by chief negotiator Khalil Al-Hayya.

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🚨 Palestinian negotiators, after consultations with multiple factions, agreed to a deal that in its first stage will leave Israeli forces in Gaza even after all captives are handed over.

Jeremy Scahill notes that Hamas had long insisted it would not accept any deal without a full Israeli...

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Hamas sources have made clear to Drop Site that they believe the only path to a brokered agreement to end the genocide rests with Trump. The alternative is an indefinite continuation of the armed struggle against a U.S.-backed Israeli military.

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Trump:
“I spoke to Bibi Netanyahu just a little while ago... They’re loving Israel again. They really are. I said, 'Israel cannot fight the world, Bibi.

They can't fight the world.’”

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🔴 If you’re just catching up: Israel and Hamas have agreed on the first phase of a Gaza ceasefire deal.

➤ President Donald Trump announced the breakthrough on social media.

➤ Qatar, a key mediator, confirmed an agreement was reached on “all provisions and implementation mechanisms” of the first...

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“The details will be announced later,” spokesperson for Qatar’s Foreign Ministry says.

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🚨Fugitive of international justice Benjamin Netanyahu says he will convene his government tomorrow to approve Trump’s Gaza deal. He praised the army, thanked Trump, and said Israel would “achieve all our goals” with divine help.

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A senior Hamas official told Drop Site that the Palestinian negotiators have faced unprecedented pressure from Arab and Islamic mediators over the past 48 hours to make significant concessions and to quickly reach an agreement on the aspects of Trump’s plan that address the exchange of captives... ⬇️

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BREAKING: Hamas and Palestinian Factions Agree to Gaza Ceasefire Framework

“From our side, yes,” a senior Hamas official told Drop Site News.

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Video shows Palestinian children jumping with joy as a parent chants “Hudna! Hudna! Hudna!” — an Arabic word meaning a long-term truce or ceasefire.

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Regular Drop Site contributor, Gaza Relief Committee’s Eyad Amawi shares the following message:

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NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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“The alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.”

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Al Jazeera reports that Israeli warplanes struck Gaza City at the same time Trump announced a ceasefire deal. Palestinians had been celebrating the truce, but raids continued. No casualties have yet been confirmed.

Israel has also been blowing up about 300 homes a day using explosive-laden APCs.

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Trump announces on Truth Social that Israel and Hamas have signed off on the first phase...

...His statement did not include language about a permanent end to the war — a declaration a senior Palestinian source told Drop Site’s @jeremyscahill.com would be written into the agreement itself.

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