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The message follows Israel’s killing of four Palestinians, including senior Hamas commander Raed Saad, over the weekend, despite the ceasefire.

DOHA, Qatar (AP) — With the remains of one hostage still in Gaza, the first phase of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas is nearly complete, after a two-month process plagued by delays and finger-pointing.

Israel and Hamas have traded accusations that the other is delaying the second phase of the US-brokered peace plan in Gaza.

Israel has killed senior Hamas military figure Raad Saad in an airstrike on Gaza’s Rashid coastal road, in a move both sides frame as a major test of the new US‑brokered ceasefire. Saad, long described by Israeli officials as Hamas’s number‑two and head of its weapons‑manufacturing network,

The fragile Israel-Hamas truce has reached an inflection point as the cease-fire deal hinges on the release of all hostages before it can move on to the next phase, but the terror group claims it can’t find the body of the final captive.

Tensions are rising once again after Israel firmly rejected Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal’s suggestion of a temporary “weapons freeze” in Gaza, insisting that the US-backed peace plan requires full disarmament of the group.