Israeli strikes kill at least 10 in Gaza as Cairo talks resume to salvage fragile truce
Gaza's civil defense agency reported Israeli strikes killed at least 10 people on Saturday, including two women in a large displacement tent camp in central Gaza City, with the Israeli military saying it targeted Hamas "terrorists." Mediators from Egypt, Qatar, Turkey, and a Trump-linked body reopened multi-day indirect talks in Cairo with Hamas to stabilize the October 2025 ceasefire and bridge toward a contested second phase involving Hamas disarmament and Israeli withdrawal. Hamas insists an end to Israeli attacks and increased aid is a precondition for progress. Around 950 Palestinians and four Israeli soldiers have died since the truce began, and Israel now controls roughly 60% of Gaza with Netanyahu having ordered expansion to 70%.
Why it matters
The October 2025 Trump-brokered ceasefire halted the deadliest phase of a war that has killed roughly 73,000 Palestinians since October 2023, but its first-phase prisoner-hostage exchanges have not advanced to the far harder second phase. Israel's steady territorial expansion past the agreed "yellow line"—with new military outposts and control nearing 70%—and Arab League/OIC warnings of de facto annexation underscore how the truce risks collapsing into permanent occupation rather than a path to Palestinian statehood.
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Chinese and Arab coverage emphasizes satellite analysis showing 40 Israeli military outposts inside Gaza—eight built after the ceasefire—and frames Israel's actions as a coordinated annexation strategy, a framing largely absent from Western wire reports focused on daily casualty counts.