IDF says that ceasefire settlement has come into impact
Israeli army has stated that the ceasefire settlement has come into impact, as troops have now retreated to the deployment traces agreed upon.
In a press release launched on Telegram, the IDF says troops “started positioning themselves alongside the up to date deployment traces” from noon native time.
“IDF troops within the Southern Command are deployed within the space and can proceed to take away any rapid risk,” the assertion provides. The IDF now has a 53% management of the Strip – most of those areas fall outdoors city zones.
The settlement outlines that after the beginning of the ceasefire, Hamas then has 72 hours to launch all hostages.
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British prime minister Keir Starmer has agreed to again “substantive humanitarian support packages” through the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, alongside together with his E3 counterparts, they’ve revealed in a press release.
The UK, French and German leaders’ assertion, after they spoke on Friday, reads: “We welcome the settlement on a ceasefire within the Center East, the deliberate launch of hostages, and the resumption of humanitarian support to the civilian inhabitants of Gaza.
“We pay tribute to president Trump’s management on the problem, to the diplomatic efforts of the mediators, Egypt, Qatar and Turkey, and to the important help from the broader area to safe the settlement.
“It’s now of utmost significance that every one events implement their obligations in full and immediately.
“We stand able to help additional talks on the subsequent phases of the plan and to contribute to it.
“As a part of this effort, we agree that the UN safety council ought to give its full backing to the plan and help its implementation.
“We decide to supporting substantive humanitarian support packages by means of UN companies to be delivered as quickly because the ceasefire enters into impact.”
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Benjamin Netanyahu repeated his pledge to pressure Hamas to disarm on Friday in a defiant and combative speech, simply an hour after a ceasefire started in Gaza.
In a televised deal with, Israel’s prime minister stated he had resisted intense home and worldwide strain to attain his goal of guaranteeing “the safety of Israel”, lambasted his critics and reiterated a risk to return to battle if crucial.
“Hamas agreed to the deal solely when it felt the sword resting on its neck and it’s nonetheless on its neck … Hamas might be disarmed and Gaza might be demilitarised … If that is achieved the straightforward method, a lot the higher. And if not, it is going to be achieved the laborious method.,” Netanyahu stated.
The deal signed early on Thursday and carried out on Friday will result in Hamas releasing 20 residing hostages inside 72 hours, the withdrawal of Israeli forces from elements of Gaza, and freedom for about 2,000 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails. Additional steps are nonetheless unclear.
In his deal with, Netanyahu stated that attaining safety for Israel meant “breaking the Iranian axis, of which Hamas is a central part”, suggesting that he had achieved this over the 24 months of relentless battle.
Analysts described the speech as “an election speech”.
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Vans loaded with meals and fruit belonging to Palestinian retailers enter the Gaza Strip through Salahaddin Road, south of the Netzarim Hall.
Vans loaded with meals and fruit belonging to Palestinian retailers enter the Gaza Strip. {Photograph}: Anadolu/Getty ImagesShare
Hundreds of officers are set to be deployed for US president Donald Trump’s go to to Israel on Monday, Israeli police stated. Police employees might be stationed alongside key factors of the president’s deliberate journey.
Trump is predicted to be making a brief go to to Israel on Monday, the place is because of deal with its parliament, the Knesset. This is able to mark the primary go to there by a US president in nearly twenty years.
He reportedly won’t be stopping at Tel Aviv’s Hostage Sq. over safety issues. Nonetheless, the president stated he would “most likely” be within the area when the remaining hostages in Gaza are launched.
As a part of preparation for Trump’s go to, Israeli police stated it could have officers deployed all alongside the president’s deliberate route to make sure “public security, order, and clean site visitors movement.”
As Israel prepares to welcome U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday, the Israel Police is finalizing Operation “Blue Protect 6.” Hundreds of police and Border Law enforcement officials might be deployed alongside key routes to make sure public security, order, and clean site visitors movement through the… pic.twitter.com/Xx6cDx6zBS
— Israel Police (@israelpolice) October 10, 2025
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Israel releases listing of detainees set to be launched, which doesn’t embrace Barghouti
Israel has launched an inventory of the Palestinian detainees that it plans to launch as a part of the ceasefire and hostage launch settlement made with Hamas.
In accordance with Israeli media, of the 250 Palestinian prisoners, 15 might be launched in East Jerusalem, 100 to the West Financial institution, and 135 might be deported.
The BBC stories that originally, when Hamas officers submitted an inventory of proposed prisoners to be launched to mediators in Egypt, they referred to as for the discharge of high-profile Palestinian political figures similar to Marwan Barghouti.
The now 66-year-old Barghouti was jailed by an Israeli courtroom in 2002 for his position in planning a number of killings through the second intifada. Nonetheless, Netanyahu’s workplace confirmed it refuses to launch Barghouti.
Senior Fatah chief Marwan Barghouti seems in Jerusalem’s courtroom on 25 January, 2012. {Photograph}: Bernat Armangué/AP
Barghouti, who is typically in comparison with Nelson Mandela by his supporters, is a senior determine in Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah motion. He’s seen as one of many few figures who might meaningfully reconcile rival Palestinian factions, and is massively widespread in each the West Financial institution and Gaza.
The IDF stated right now (10 October) that the ceasefire got here into impact at noon. This implies Hamas now has a 72-hour interval to launch all 48 remaining Israeli hostages from Gaza, of which 20 are nonetheless believed to be alive.
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Hundreds of displaced Palestinians have begun to return house from southern Gaza after a ceasefire got here into impact and Israeli troops withdrew to an agreed-upon redeployment line – the primary time that preventing has stopped within the devastated territory since March.
The Israeli army stated the ceasefire settlement, which was accepted by the Israeli cupboard on Thursday evening and begins the primary part of a US-drafted plan to finish the battle in Gaza, had been activated at midday native time (0900 GMT) on Friday.
Beneath the phrases of the plan, Hamas is predicted to launch the 20 residing Israeli hostages inside 72 hours, after which Israel will launch 250 Palestinians serving lengthy phrases in Israeli prisons, in addition to 1,700 others detained in Gaza through the battle.
The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, claimed credit score for the hostage launch, saying in an deal with on Friday that the “safety of Israel” was what dictated his actions in Gaza.
“I believed that if we utilized heavy army strain, mixed with heavy diplomatic strain, we might completely have the ability to return all of our hostages,” stated Netanyahu, who additionally thanked the US president, Donald Trump, for his help to attain the deal.
Avichay Adraee, an Israeli Arabic-language army spokesperson, stated residents of Gaza might return north through particular routes, whereas warning them away from areas similar to Beit Hanoun and the Rafah border crossing, the place troops remained. Israeli bombing in Gaza had intensified on Friday morning up till the ceasefire started.
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Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stated he’s “fulfilling” his promise to convey again all of the hostages, throughout a nationwide deal with.
Netanyahu stated that Israel remains to be “surrounding Hamas from each route” and stated that “Hamas might be disarmed and Gaza might be demilitarised”.
He added: “If that is achieved the straightforward method – a lot the higher. And if not – it is going to be achieved the laborious method.”
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Hundreds of Palestinians in Gaza started heading north within the territory after the Israeli army introduced {that a} ceasefire had come into impact. Israel will reportedly permit 600 support vans into Gaza each day, in accordance with a report by Israeli Military Radio.
They may even let Palestinians who left the world through the battle to return house by means of the Rafah crossing.
Within the first part of the ceasefire, all Israeli hostages might be freed in return for tons of of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.
Hundreds of Palestinians seen heading in the direction of Gaza Metropolis as ceasefire comes into impact – video ShareJulian Borger
Inside just a few months, the battle in Gaza had already made its personal addition to the vocabulary of emergency medical help with the world’s most heartbreaking acronym: WCNSF, “wounded youngster, no surviving household”.
Over two years of bombardment and famine the issue has worsened, regardless that within the fixed chaos created by Israeli bombing and evacuation orders, which fragment communities and scatter them across the Gaza Strip, it’s laborious to maintain observe of youngsters separated from their households.
The UN’s youngster safety company, Unicef, cited Gaza well being ministry statistics from early September, recording 2,596 youngsters who had misplaced each dad and mom, and an extra 53,724 who had misplaced both their father (47,804) or mom (5,920).
There is no such thing as a knowledge on what number of parentless youngsters have additionally been wounded, however, whilst the primary part of a ceasefire deal to finish the lengthy battle was agreed on Thursday, Gaza has the very best charge of kid amputations of any trendy battle.
On 13 August, a three-year-old woman, Wesam, was asleep together with her five-year-old brother, Zuheir, her pregnant mom, Nour, her father, Moatassem, and her grandparents, when the household home in Gaza Metropolis was bombed. Wesam was the one survivor, however sustained severe wounds to her leg and stomach, together with a lacerated liver and kidney, and extreme psychological trauma.
Unicef stated she was in “pressing want of medical evacuation overseas for superior therapy, significantly to avoid wasting her left leg from the chance of amputation”.
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Gaza residents have been instructed that “cooperation, self-discipline, and responding to directions” is the most secure option to transfer ahead as support comes into the area.
Al Jazeera has reported that Gaza’s Authorities Media Workplace has issued a “nationwide attraction”, which asks the folks residing within the Gaza Strip to “make sure the success of the humanitarian restoration part of the ceasefire settlement”.
“We name upon our nice Palestinian folks to completely cooperate with the governmental and humanitarian companies,” it stated.
It added: “We affirm that cooperation, self-discipline, and responding to directions issued by governmental and aid companies is the secure option to speed up and facilitate service efforts supplied to our folks, and to make sure the gradual and organised restoration of life, in a method that achieves the curiosity of all and preserves the safety and stability of society.”
The message additionally acknowledged the “extent of the ache” of the Palestinian folks after months of bombardment, and says it subsequently asks the individuals who stay within the Strip to “take care of this stage with a spirit of nationwide and humanitarian duty.”
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At the least 17 Palestinians have been killed and 71 injured in Israeli assaults in Gaza over the previous 24 hours, in accordance with Gaza’s well being ministry (whose figures the UN finds credible).
The full demise toll has risen to 67,211 since 7 October 2023, the ministry stated.
This comes after it was introduced yesterday {that a} ceasefire and hostage launch deal was agreed upon between Hamas and Israel yesterday (9 October. The IDF says that as of noon right now (10 October), the ceasefire has come into impact.
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Unicef requires all support routes into Gaza to open, and warns of kid deaths
Unicef has referred to as for all support routes into Gaza to open and warns that youngster deaths might spike if not.
“The state of affairs is important. We danger seeing a large spike in youngster demise, not solely neonatal, but in addition infants, given their immune techniques are extra compromised than ever earlier than,” stated spokesperson Ricardo Pires.
Diet help is the principle precedence, in accordance with Unicef, with 50,000 youngsters susceptible to acute malnutrition and in want of rapid therapy.
Pires stated youngsters “haven’t been consuming correctly and just lately in any respect for method too lengthy”, and that is inflicting them well being issues which might have detrimental long-term impacts. “With youngsters, they should have the appropriate nutritional vitamins and the vitamins to develop and have the ability to deal with temperature modifications, or virus outbreaks,” he stated.
About 600 vans a day are reported to enter Gaza and ship support, because the United Nations has introduced its plans to ship 170,000 metric tons of meals, drugs and different humanitarian support is able to enter Gaza. It’s now in search of a inexperienced gentle from Israel to massively enhance assist for greater than 2 million Palestinians in want.
Vans carrying support line up close to the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, amid the continued battle between Israel and Hamas, in Rafah, Egypt, 13 August 2025. {Photograph}: Reuters
Within the final a number of months, UN and its humanitarian companions have solely been in a position to ship 20% of the help wanted within the Gaza Strip. In addition to offering meals, shelter gear and medical provides, it hopes to revive Gaza’s water grid and enhance sanitation by putting in latrines in households, repairing sewage leaks and pumping stations, and shifting strong waste from residential areas
Unicef additionally stated it has evacuated two of 18 new child infants from a North Gaza hospital to be reunited with their dad and mom within the south of the area.
“I hope that is simply an instance of what’s going to come after the ceasefire is absolutely carried out,” Pires stated.
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Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stated that the didn’t hearken to those that stated it could not be attainable to convey the hostages house. Whereas delivering an deal with to the general public on Friday, 10 October, he stated “the safety of Israel” is what guided his political choices.
“I believed that if we utilized heavy army strain, mixed with heavy diplomatic strain, we might completely have the ability to return all of our hostages,” he stated, as reported by the Occasions of Israel.
He later added: “Which means attaining the objectives of the battle, together with returning the hostages, eradicating the ballistic and nuclear risk from Iran that endangered our existence right here, and breaking the Iranian axis, of which Hamas is a central part.”
Elsewhere within the deal with, the prime minister additionally stated that the Israeli army is remaining in Gaza to place strain on Hamas till it disarms.
He additionally thanked his “large pal” US president Donald Trump, saying that diplomatic strain and army presence is the “highly effective mixture” that “will trigger Hamas to present again all of our hostages, whereas the IDF stays deep contained in the Strip and holds all the important thing positions.”
US president Donald Trump and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake fingers on the conclusion of a joint press convention within the State Eating Room of the White Home in Washington DC on 29 September 2025. {Photograph}: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Photos
Netanyahu thanked Trump “for his world management, and for his unceasing efforts to place collectively this plan to convey again our hostages.”
Trump, in accordance with the Israeli prime minister, “proved his friendship to our folks, to our nation” – and was given reward together with the IDF and the family members of the Israeli hostages.
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Palestinians start journey north after Israel says ceasefire has come into impact
Hundreds of Palestinians in Gaza started heading north within the territory after the Israeli army introduced {that a} ceasefire had come into impact on Friday, in accordance with AFP information company.
Listed here are a few of the pictures coming by means of to us on the wires:
Palestinians, who had been displaced to the southern a part of Gaza at Israel’s order through the battle, stroll as they try to return to the north after a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza went into impact. {Photograph}: Mahmoud Issa/ReutersPalestinians, who had been displaced to the southern a part of Gaza at Israel’s order through the battle, wait as they try to return to the north after a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza went into impact, within the central Gaza Strip, 10 October 2025. {Photograph}: Mahmoud Issa/ReutersShare
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Israel will reportedly permit 600 support vans into Gaza each day, in accordance with a report by Israel’s Military Radio. They may even let Palestinians who left the Gaza strip through the battle to return house by means of the Rafah crossing.
The 600 support vans might be allowed to movement from the south to the north of the Gaza Strip through Salah al-Din and al-Rashid streets, Al Jazeera stories. The vans can herald meals, medical gear, shelter provides, and gas – and might be distributed by a mix of United Nations, accredited worldwide organisations and the non-public sector.
Displaced Palestinians stroll alongside the coastal street close to Wadi Gaza within the central Gaza Strip, shifting towards northern Gaza, Friday,10 October 2025. {Photograph}: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP
The radio report additionally stated that Gaza residents will have the ability to go to Egypt by means of the Rafah crossing, equally to what was allowed through the January 2025 settlement. Nonetheless, this motion is topic to the approval of Israel and below the supervision and inspection of the European Union mission.
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Israeli broadcaster Channel 12 stories that Donald Trump is predicted to land in Israel at round 9am on Monday, 13 October. The US president is because of arrive at Ben Gurion Airport, the place he might be welcomed with a proper ceremony.
Nonetheless, the go to is now going to be shorter than initially deliberate, on account of logistics of organising the journey at such a final minute – in accordance with The Occasions of Israel.
President Donald Trump speaks throughout a Cupboard Assembly on the White Home in Washington DC. {Photograph}: Samuel Corum/EPA
After his arrival, Trump is predicted to go straight to the Knesset in Jerusalem to ship a speech earlier than the beginning of the Jewish vacation Simchat Torah – which begins on Monday night. As per Channel 12, if this timeline is correct, this implies the president won’t have time to cease by Hostages Sq. in Tel Aviv.
It was confirmed yesterday that Trump won’t be visiting Gaza throughout his Center East journey.
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