The Board of Peace is part of the peace plan brokered by President Donald Trump that saw a ceasefire take hold between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.

The Trump administration wants nations to pay $1 billion to remain on his Gaza peace board, reports show.

Israel says it is unhappy it was not consulted, and Palestinians have also been critical.

The first names of those who will oversee the next phase of the US president's peace plan are announced.

Whatever the concerns and complexities, it remains the only plan in town, with many world leaders pledging to support it, writes John Sudworth.

The former UK prime minister and US secretary of state will sit on the "founding executive board", the White House says.

Israel placed and later moved control markers in three areas, with placed deeper inside Gaza than maps suggested

As the US announces the next of its plan to end the war, serious obstacles mean implementation will be difficult.

It includes the establishment of a technocratic Palestinian government, as well as the reconstruction and demilitarisation of Gaza, US envoy Steve Witkoff says.

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The new body is part of the White House's 20-point plan to end the war between Israel and Hamas.

Most of the schools in the territory have been damaged or destroyed during the war, Unicef says.

TEHRAN As we enter the new year 2026, do the risks of genocide and displacement for Palestinians in Gaza still persist?

Crammed in a tiny tent at a UN-run school in central Gaza City, Alaa Alzanin shelters with his wife, five children, his 71-year-old mother, and younger sister after losing their Beit Hanoon home.

Foreign ministers from ten nations have voiced alarm over the sharp deterioration of humanitarian conditions in Gaza, warning that the situation has reached catastrophic levels.

The move was criticised by foreign ministers from from 10 countries including the UK, who said the new rules were "restrictive" and "unacceptable".

The US president also warns Hamas will have "hell to pay" if it does not disarm, after talks with Netanyahu.

TEHRAN The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has confirmed that its armed wing spokesperson, Abu Obaida, and then Gaza chief Mohammed Sinwar were martyred in Israels genocidal war earlier this year

Heavy rain and strong winds flooded and uprooted tents in the Gaza Strip on Monday, worsening already dire living conditions for Palestinians after two years of Israeli genocide.

A Palestinian woman was killed, and several family members were injured when a storm-damaged building wall collapsed onto a tent in Gaza Citys Al-Rimal neighborhood on Sunday, Anadolu reported.

History will record this moment not as a triumph of civilization, but as its absolute moral collapse. In Gaza, more than70,000 innocent human beingsthe overwhelming majority women, mothers, pregnant women, and childrenhave been systematically annihilated

TEHRAN The resistance in Gaza is fighting a battle guided by a logic of achievable deterrence.

A bill passed by parliament expands temporary powers introduced during the Gaza war to shutter outlets seen as a security threat.

The BBC revisits one-year-old Siwar Ashour who was temporarily evacuated to Jordan for medical treatment during the Gaza war

International organisations not registered by 31 December face closure in Israel, but the Israeli government says aid delivery will not be affected.

TEHRAN The October 10 ceasefire in Gaza was sold to the world to signal that Israels war on the Palestinian enclave had finally stopped

TEHRAN War and aggression appear to be an inseparable part of the Israeli regime's existence. From the 1948 Nakba in Palestine and the at least half-dozen wars with Arab states until 2006, to its recent aggressions against Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen, Qatar, and Iran, Israel appears locked in a perpetual cycle of inflicting death and destruction.

TEHRAN The U.S. administration revives its dangerous vision of transforming Gaza into a Middle East Riviera, sidelining the Palestinians once more.

With just one hostage left in Gaza, members of the forum reflect on its influence in Israel and abroad.

TEHRAN Gaza appears to be entering a difficult testing phase, the outcome of which will depend on the Palestinians ability to forge a unified national position.

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said it is seeing a sharp rise in respiratory infections across Gaza, as harsh winter weather exacerbates already dire living conditions and poses a growing danger to young children.