For now, training for the force’s deployment to Gaza has not yet begun, and efforts are still underway to secure the extensive funding required for ISF operations in the Strip.

The chair of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace told OSV News he was heartened by a United Nations move to approve President Donald Trump’s plan to end the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip by installing international transitional governance and military forces there.

NPR Mideast correspondent Daniel Estrin has entered the Gaza Strip for the first time since the war began, but Israel still requires a military escort.

Israel has carried out nearly 400 violations of the ceasefire agreement, with new strikes, rising displacement, blocked aid.

U.S. and Israeli soldiers, foreign diplomats and aid workers are congregated in a warehouse in Israel to talk about the future of Gaza. One key group is missing: Palestinians.

The United Nations Security Council voted Monday evening to approve President Donald Trump’s peace plan for Gaza, a major diplomatic victory providing an international mandate to rebuild the Gaza Strip following two years of conflict between Israel and Hamas.

Israel launches strikes across Gaza Strip after "several terrorists" opened fire on IDF soldiers in Khan Younis in the latest reported ceasefire violation.

Both the Trump Peace Plan and the Abraham Accords are problematic. The proposed ISF would be mandated to disarm ‘non state actors’ (read Hamas) in cooperation with Egypt and Israel. It seems to have slipped notice that the Gaza Strip is still on the UN’s books as an occupied territory.