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Ceasefire restored in Gaza, Palestinian officials say
Palestinian sources have confirmed to Al Jazeera that the ceasefire in Gaza has been restored. The mediators’ contacts played a role in bringing it back into effect after a day of mass casualty attacks by Israeli forces.
Egypt, Turkiye, Qatar and the United States are the main mediators involved in negotiations.
Discussions are now under way to establish a binding mechanism to address any future violations of the truce in Gaza, sources said.
Is aid still being blocked though?
UK’s top diplomat calls escalation in Gaza ‘deeply concerning’
The UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper says “the ceasefire must hold and humanitarian aid must get through to those in need”.
“We call upon all parties to uphold President Trump’s peace plan to avoid any further bloodshed,” said Cooper.
The statement comes after the Israeli military launched attacks on Gaza that killed dozens of people after claiming two of its soldiers were killed in a Hamas attack, an accusation Hamas denied.
The escalation today in Gaza is deeply concerning.
The ceasefire must hold and humanitarian aid must get through to those in need.
We call upon all parties to uphold President Trump’s peace plan to avoid any further bloodshed.
— Yvette Cooper (@YvetteCooperMP) October 19, 2025
Gaza Media Office says 97 killed since truce entered into force
A statement on Telegram says the Israeli army has committed 80 violations since October 10, killing 97 people and wounding another 230.
The office called the actions “flagrant and clear violations of the ceasefire decision and the rules of international humanitarian law”. These violations have been monitored in all governorates of Gaza without exception, it added.
‘Israel continuing the Israel-American genocide of last two years’
Senior United States officials are heading to Israel this week, and this signals that US President Donald Trump is trying to keep the ceasefire with Hamas alive, an analyst says.
“The fact that they’re going seems to be an expression of Trump’s desire to dampen down the violence. How long the US will keep this position is not clear,” Rami Khouri from the American University of Beirut said.
“There isn’t a lot of evidence that the US wants a fully equitable and fair permanent peace agreement between Israel and Palestine that ends up with two states with equal rights. Washington seems to be pushing for a new form of 20th-century colonialism.”
Khouri said the US appears to want full control of the governance of the Gaza Strip.
“There’s two battles here: one between Palestine and Israel, and one between Israel and the United States – and the American side is not fully clear what it’s trying to do … Israel is continuing the Israel-American genocide of the last two years, but at a lower level of intensity,” Khouri told Al Jazeera.
