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The relevant parties have begun intensive talks to discuss the next phases of the truce agreement, amid ongoing efforts to ensure the implementation of the previously agreed understandings."
On Thursday, Egypt's State Information Service said
The coming days are critical. The parties must spare no effort to avoid a breakdown of this deal,
Guterres said in New York
The second phase of the ceasefire agreement is supposed to begin tomorrow morning, Sunday … but the occupation is still procrastinating and continuing to violate the agreement,
the source told Agence-France PresseRamadan has come this year, and we are on the streets with no shelter, no work, no money, nothing,
said Ali Rajih, a resident of the hard-hit Jabaliya camp in north GazaBut I think the ceasefire probably won’t collapse also,
he addedThe American envoy Steve Witkoff has indicated he wants to explore the idea of extending phase one, which is the Israeli position,
he told Al Jazeera
That’s been left up in the air as the mediators try to contain this crisis and prevent a return to fighting that will bring nothing but further devastation to the people of Gaza,
he added
At this fragile moment, we must avoid a resumption of hostilities that would deepen the suffering and further destabilize a region that is already perched on a knife's edge,
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in an X post on Friday
For a year and four months my legs were shackled with chains with very, very heavy locks that cut into your flesh,
Sharabi said
The extension of the first phase as proposed by the occupation is unacceptable to us, and the mediators and guarantor countries are required to oblige the occupation to abide by the agreement in its various stages,
Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem said in a statement
Each moment the ceasefire holds means more people reached and more lives saved,
Guterres told reportersI doubt anyone in Gaza will want to go back to war,
she said in Geneva
Nobody really knows, but we'll see what happens
Asked whether the ceasefire deal would move into the second phase, Trump saidHe will try with all of his might to bring back all the hostages, whether it’s second phase or another phase or another kind of deal,
Ilay saidThe IDF retreat from Philadelphi – that’s a big deal. It’s a big asset to Israel, so I don’t know what will happen,
Ilay said
I count on him to bring the hostages back and I think he understands that to bring them back is … something which goes to the core of the Jewish nation and the ethos of the Israeli state – solidarity and leaving no one behind.”
As for Netanyahu, he saidHe looks half the man he was. He looks starved. He looks exhausted,
Ilay saidWe are right now in this weird moment where a lot depends on the pressure that the families can put on the government but also on the public,
he saidIt only drives us to do more, to speak with more people, to keep lobbying, to make him more visible – as visible as we can make him,
he saidWe have already done our duties according to the deal, and we are ready to continue implementing the deal,
said Naim,