Global leaders support ceasefire negotiations for the war in Gaza. (Credit: Arab News) As new ceasefire negotiations move forward, Hamas says its fighters in the southern Gaza city of Rafah will not lay down their weapons, signalling the group’s intent to maintain bargaining power, even as humanitarian conditions worsen and international pressure for a truce grows. “The enemy must know that the concept of surrender and handing oneself over does not exist in the dictionary of

On March 18, Israeli forces killed over 400 people in Gaza in overnight attacks, which officially broke the ceasefire agreement the nation signed with Hamas that began on Jan. 19.