A shaky ceasefire is holding. Now the Palestinian territory is in urgent need of a functioning government, order on the streets, and resources to start rebuilding the shattered territory.

Palestinians, Jews and many others across the Puget Sound area are hoping the Gaza ceasefire signals an end to the turmoil of the last two years.

Egypt proposed an initial deployment of 1,000 security personnel trained in Jordan or Egypt, aiming to gradually expand the effort to enforce post-ceasefire security. Negotiations between Israel and Hamas have entered a new stage,

As Israel and Hamas implement the first phase of a Gaza peace plan, questions remain unanswered over what comes next.

Israel freed almost 2,000 Palestinians from its jails on Monday as part of a Gaza ceasefire deal, prompting emotional scenes of families reunited with loved ones, some of whom had spent decades behind bars.

Joyful scenes emerged across the Gaza Strip as buses carrying freed Palestinian prisoners entered the war-torn territory.

Hamas freed the last living Israeli hostages from Gaza on Monday under a ceasefire deal and Israel sent home busloads of Palestinian detainees, as U.S. President Donald Trump declared the end of the two-year long war that has upended the broader Middle East.

Palestinian peace activist Aziz Abu Sarah joined Brittany Lewis on "Forbes Newsroom" to discuss what's next for Gaza as Phase One of the Gaza peace deal takes effect.

The festival is also bringing a collection of contemporary artworks inspired by the Palestinian artist Maroun Tomb to galleries in Brighton and Brookline.

Some Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, where Israel has for two years waged a brutal and systematic war against Hamas, are returning home and beginning to reckon with the destruction caused by the conflict. The United Nations' World Food Programme said it is "scaling up its operations in Gaza" as the ceasefire has gone into effect.