Trump has rescinded the Biden administration’s sanctions against Israelis accused of violence in the territory.

Meanwhile on the ground in Gaza the ceasefire, which came into effect on January 19th, is holding. The first hostages have been released as have 90 Palestinian prisoners. Aid has begun to flow in. The idf has begun to dismantle some of its bases. Displaced Gazans are returning to the rubble of their homes.

Israel launched a major military operation Tuesday in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin that killed at least nine Palestinians and left at least 40 more people wounded, Palestinian health officials said,

Meanwhile, the major operation launched by Israeli forces on the city of Jenin left at least six dead and dozens more wounded, Palestinian health officials said, just days into a fragile ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza. It comes as Donald Trump said he is “not confident” that the temporary truce will hold.

As the world celebrates the fragile ceasefire halting the war in Gaza, a new round of violence broke out in the West Bank, leaving dozens of casualties. Israeli military officials announced a “counterterrorism operation” across the West Bank,

Andrew Miller, a high-ranking State Department official under Biden, discusses the state of a fragile truce and Trump’s effect on the Middle East.