The Gaza ceasefire is still in the first of three proposed stages.
Last Updated: December 29, 2025, 4:50 AM EST
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will travel to Florida for talks with U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday.
The ceasefire in Gaza is broadly holding, despite sporadic clashes between the Israel Defense Forces and Gaza militants — plus deadly IDF strikes. Israeli forces inside the strip have pulled back to the so-called “yellow line.”
The ceasefire is still in the first of three proposed phases. The details of the second phase of the agreement are yet to be agreed. The remains of one deceased hostage are still thought to be in Gaza.
Israeli strikes are also ongoing against alleged Hezbollah targets in southern and eastern Lebanon.
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Here’s how the news is developing.
4:21 AM EST
Netanyahu to meet Trump on Monday
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with U.S. President Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Monday.
The meeting is expected to focus on advancing the Gaza 20-point peace plan. The October ceasefire was the first of three planned stages of the peace plan, but the details of the second phase are yet to be agreed to.
-ABC News’ Anna Burd
Dec 25, 2025, 1:59 AM EST
IDF reports 2 new strikes in Lebanon
The Israel Defense Forces said it attacked two more “terrorists” in Lebanon on Wednesday and Thursday.
The first strike on Wednesday targeted an alleged Hezbollah fighter in the southern Janta region, the IDF said in a post to X. In another post on Thursday, the IDF said it also targeted a person in the Nazriya area.
Dec 24, 2025, 9:39 AM EST
IDF officer injured near Rafah
A combat officer with the Israeli military was wounded by an improvised explosive device that was detonated near Rafah, the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement Wednesday.
The officer was “lightly injured” after the device was detonated against an IDF vehicle “during operational activity,” the IDF said.
The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office released a statement saying Hamas continues to violate the ceasefire agreement and President Donald Trump’s peace plan.
“Their ongoing and continuing public refusal to disarm is an ongoing flagrant violation and again today their violent intentions and violations were confirmed by their detonation of an IED that wounded an IDF officer,” the statement from the Prime Minister’s Office stated.
“Israel will respond accordingly,” the statement said.
-ABC News’ Dorit Long
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