Gaza latest: Trump threatens to ‘go in and kill Hamas’ if violence continues amid delays over dead hostages

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President Donald Trump has warned Hamas that "we will have no choice but to go in and kill them" if internal conflict persists in Gaza, after initially downplaying the ongoing pockets of violence in the territory.

Hamas executed seven Palestinians this week for “collaborating” with Israel, which Trump condoned at the time, comparing it to US gang violence and strikes on Venezuelan “drug boats”. But he has since changed stance, warning the group that such killings are "not [part of] the Deal".

Meanwhile, the families of Israeli hostages have demanded that the ceasefire with Hamas be terminated if the 19 bodies remaining in Gaza are not returned. “The agreement cannot continue to be implemented without Hamas returning all the hostages,” the Hostage Families Forum Headquarters said in a statement.

“Any decision that weakens pressure on Hamas or allows the agreement to continue while hostages remain unreturned would be a grave moral and leadership failure.

”Hamas said all reachable hostage bodies have now been returned to Israel after the Red Cross received the remains of another two late on Wednesday.

US in talks with Indonesia, UAE, Qatar to send troops to Gaza

US president Donald Trump's administration is speaking with many countries interested in contributing to an international force to stabilize security in Gaza, the White House has said.

Among the countries the US is speaking to about contributing to the force are Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Qatar, and Azerbaijan, two US advisers told Reuters.

There are also currently up to two dozen US troops in the region to help set up the operation, serving in a "coordination, oversight" role, they said.

Italy has publicly said it was willing to take part.

Indonesian president Prabowo Subianto told the UN General Assembly on 23 September that Jakarta was prepared to deploy 20,000 or more troops in Gaza to help secure peace.

Alisha Rahaman Sarkar17 October 2025 04:13

France and Britain prepare UN resolution on Gaza peacekeeping force

France and the UK, in coordination with the US, are working to finalise a UN Security Council resolution in the coming days that would lay the foundation for a future international force in Gaza, Paris said.

With a shaky US-mediated ceasefire between Israel and Hamas holding, planning has begun for an international force to stabilise security in the Palestinian enclave, two senior US advisers said on Wednesday.

Speaking to reporters in Paris, French foreign ministry spokesperson Pascal Confavreux said such a force needed a UN mandate to provide a strong foundation in international law and ease the process of getting potential contributions from countries.

"France is working closely with its partners on the establishment of such an international mission, which must be formalised through the adoption of a UN Security Council resolution," he said.

"Discussions, notably with the Americans and British, are ongoing to propose this resolution in the coming days.”

Alisha Rahaman Sarkar17 October 2025 04:12

Starmer says ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from attending Aston Villa game is ‘wrong decision’

Maira Butt17 October 2025 04:00

Fears for Gaza ceasefire grow after Israel and Hamas accuse each other of breaching Trump’s peace

US President Donald Trump waded into the dispute late on Thursday as he threatened that there would be “no choice but to go in and kill” Hamas if it it continued to “kill people in Gaza”.

Maira Butt17 October 2025 03:00

Dr Hussam Abu Safiya detention extended by six months

Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, a Gaza paediatrician, will remain in detention for six more months, Al Mezan’s lawyers confirmed on Thursday.

“An Israeli court has rubber-stamped the extension of Dr. Abu Safiya's arbitrary detention for six more months,” the human rights organisation wrote in a statement on X/Twitter on Thursday.

“This decision strips away any pretense: Dr. Abu Safiya is a hostage, a bargaining chip in ongoing negotiations.”

Amnesty has called for the release of Dr Safiya and all arbitrarily detained Palestinian healthcare workers. The doctor was detained by Israeli authorities on 27 December 2024.

Israeli forces stormed the Kamal Adwan Hospital – the last functioning hospital in northern Gaza at the time – and arrested Dr Safiya, the hospital’s director along with other medical staff.

Prior to Channel 13 footage released earlier this year, he had last been seen walking through rubble towards Israeli tanks after the hospital was raided.

Maira Butt17 October 2025 02:01

UK ends Gaza surveillance flights after return of hostages

Maira Butt17 October 2025 01:01

Trucks continue to trickle in but 'nowhere near enough'

Aid trucks entered Gaza on Wednesday as Israel said 600 had been approved to go in under the ceasefire agreement.

UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Tom Fletcher said it was a "good base" but nowhere near enough, with medical care also scarce and most of the 2.2 million population homeless.

UNICEF said it has brought in 250 pallets of supplies including family tents, winter clothes, tarpaulins, sanitary pads and hygiene kits.

It has distributed more than 56,000 packs of baby food to help 12,500 children for two weeks, UNICEF spokesperson Tess Ingram said on Thursday.

Maira Butt16 October 2025 23:59

Hamas carries out public executions after returning to the streets of Gaza

Maira Butt16 October 2025 23:01

Palestinian leader and prisoner Marwan Barghouti beaten unconscious in prison, says son

Marwan Barghouti, the most popular leader for Palestinians who is currently in an Israeli jail, was beaten unconscious by Israeli prison guards, his son has said.

Arab Barghouti cited evidence given by Palestinian detainees released this week in the ceasefire deal.

According to that information, his 66-year-old father was attacked by eight guards on 14 September while being transferred between Ganot and Megiddo prisons.

“What we know is that while they were transferring my father, they stopped along the way and eight security guards within the prison authority that worked for the prison authority started beating my father up in different ways, by kicking him, by [throwing] him on the ground, by punching him, focusing on the head area, chest area and legs as well,” he said according to The Guardian.

Mr Barghouti could barely walk for days, the released detainees said, after what his son said was the fourth time his father had been beaten over the past two years.

UN special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese said on X: “I fear for the life of Marwan Barghouti. Reports say Israeli guards beat him unconscious.”

She called on the Red Cross to be allowed to visit Mr Barghouti to verify his condition.

Mr Barghouti has been in solitary confinement since the Hamas attack on Israel in October 2023. He has been in prison for more than 20 years after being convicted of planning attacks which led to five civilians being killed, in a trial described as flawed by the Inter-Parliamentary Union, which questioned the quality of the evidence.

Maira Butt16 October 2025 22:30