Protests supporting Gaza take place in Europe

Hundreds of thousands of people demonstrated on Sunday.

Last Updated: October 5, 2025, 1:46 PM EDT

Hamas responded Friday to President Donald Trump's proposal for peace in Gaza, as the president gave a deadline of 6 p.m. ET Sunday to sign on to the plan he unveiled earlier this week.

Hamas said it will release all remaining hostages if Israel withdraws from Gaza and "proper field conditions are met." More negotiations will need to take place to finalize the deal, which Trump unveiled Monday while hosting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House.

Any agreement could mean an end to the Israel Defense Forces' operation to take control of Gaza City, the largest urban area in the Gaza Strip.

Multiple Western nations recognized Palestinian statehood in recent weeks while also demanding that Hamas not be part of any future government.

Netanyahu said that Israel will not allow an independent Palestinian state to exist.

Sep 29, 2025, 8:00 AM EDT

Far-right Israeli minister sets 'red lines' for Netanyahu on Gaza

Far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Monday issued six demands to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of the latter's Gaza ceasefire talks with President Donald Trump at the White House.

This file photo shows Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich speaks at a news conference in Jerusalem, on Jan. 8, 2023.
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Smotrich heads the Religious Zionism party, which holds seven seats in parliament and is in coalition with Netanyahu’s government. Though he wished the prime minister "much success" in a Monday post to X, Smotrich also said that his party "will not compromise" on key demands.

The finance minister said that "Israel's security is not achieved through political agreements that are not worth the paper they are written on or through commitments and guarantees that hold no water."

Smotrich demanded that Netanyahu ensure "a true and complete withdrawal of Hamas from Gaza and a full and genuine disarmament of all terror infrastructures above and below ground."

The Israel Defense Forces, he said, should "forever" remain deployed at the perimeters ringing Gaza plus in the Philadelphi Corridor that runs along the strip’s southern border with Egypt, while retaining full operational freedom across the territory.

Smotrich demanded there be no agreement on Palestinian Authority or Qatari involvement in Gazan governance, nor anything that supports the concept of a future independent Palestinian state.

The minister said that Gazans who want to leave the strip should be allowed to do so through Egypt to "continue their lives in other places that agree to accept them."

Smotrich also urged Netanyahu to "utilize the historic opportunity" to "politically and practically" cement Israeli control over the occupied Palestinian West Bank.

Sep 29, 2025, 7:40 AM EDT

50 people killed in Gaza over past 24 hours, health ministry says

The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry on Monday reported that 50 more people had been killed and 184 injured across the strip in the previous 24 hours.

A Palestinian child receives treatment at Al-Shifa Hospital after being injured in an Israeli strike, in Gaza City, on Sept. 29, 2025.
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Among the dead were five people who were killed while seeking humanitarian aid, the ministry said in a post to Telegram. Forty-eight people were also injured while seeking aid, the post said.

The deaths bring the total death toll in Gaza since the ongoing war began on Oct. 7, 2023, to 66,055, the ministry said, with 168,346 people injured.

The casualty toll since Israel broke the last ceasefire on March 18 stands at 13,187 people killed and 56,305 people injured, the ministry said.

Sep 29, 2025, 5:29 AM EDT

Israel-US disputes remain on Trump's Gaza plan, sources say

Ahead of today's meeting between President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, two sources familiar with the matter told ABC News that at least three disputes remain between the Israeli and U.S. sides on Trump's proposed Gaza ceasefire plan.

Smoke rises following Israeli strikes in Gaza City on Sept. 29, 2025.
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The two sides are yet to agree on the role of the Palestinian Authority -- the government exercising limited control over parts of the West Bank, in cooperation with Israeli authorities -- in post-war Gaza, the extent of Israeli security control and freedom of action in post-war Gaza and the pace and timeline of Hamas disarmament, the sources said.

The details of the Trump administration's plan have not been publicly announced.

-ABC News' Jordana Miller and Guy Davies

Sep 29, 2025, 3:55 AM EDT

IDF says it launched 140 strikes on Gaza in past 24 hours

The Israel Defense Forces said Monday that Israeli forces attacked more than 140 targets across Gaza in the previous 24 hours "from the air, land and sea."

Smoke and fire rises from an Israeli airstrike on the Macca Tower in Gaza City, on Sept. 28, 2025.
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The IDF said the targets included groups of enemy fighters, plus positions, buildings and other "infrastructure" it claimed were in use by enemy forces.

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