Photographer-activist Shahidul Alam yesterday urged the international community to show collective courage and help ensure the success of the Gaza-bound freedom flotilla.

Efforts to end the conflict in Gaza gained momentum, with rival parties and mediators scheduled to meet in Cairo today, even as Israeli airstrikes continued across the territory, killing 19 more people.

They marched to mark what organisers said was "two years of genocide" in Gaza.

In its response to the Trump plan, Hamas had insisted it should have a say in the territory's future

Flotilla activists deported from Israel arrive in Istanbul

Photographer-activist Shahidul Alam, the only Bangladeshi aboard the Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla, said their mission is not to risk lives but to challenge what he termed “an illegal blockade” and stand in solidarity with journalists and health workers under attack.

The head of Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah said Saturday that Washington’s plan for a ceasefire in Gaza was “full of dangers”, accusing Israel of using the proposal to achieve what it “failed” to do during the war.

President Donald Trump has urged Israel to halt its bombing of Gaza after Hamas agreed to release hostages and accepted some key parts of a US peace plan -- a shift that could mean a two-year-old war is finally coming to a close.

Dozens were killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza yesterday despite a demand from US President Donald Trump for Israel to stop bombing in response to a declaration by Hamas that it was ready to free hostages under his plan to end the two-year-old war.

Israel yesterday said that it had deported 137 more activists who were detained while taking part in an aid flotilla bound for Gaza.

Exhausted Palestinians in Gaza clung to hopes yesterday that US President Donald Trump would keep up pressure on Israel to end a two-year-old war that has killed tens of thousands and displaced the entire population of more than two million.

Recalls the photographer-activist’s 2018 imprisonment; calls him a symbol of resistance

Group agrees to prisoner exchange, backs independent Palestinian administration in Gaza

Hopes momentum from Trump's peace plan will pave the way for permanent ceasefire

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Palestinian Islamic Jihad endorsed the group’s response to a US plan

Trump's proposal calls for a halt to hostilities, the release of hostages within 72 hours, a gradual Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and Hamas's disarmament.

Calls his move a symbol of Bangladesh’s stand against oppression and injustice

Hamas said it was ready to release hostages held in Gaza

Gaza's civil defence agency said Saturday that Israel carried out dozens of air strikes and artillery shelling