A Gaza company that operates water desalination plants serving nearly half of the enclave's population has stopped operations to protest at the detention by Hamas of one of its staff.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urges Middle Eastern nations to back Israel against Hamas after the U.N. adopts President Donald Trump’s peace plan.

Hamas has seen its popularity soar inside the Gaza Strip amid the cease-fire with Israel, with Palestinians supporting its crackdown on rampant crime — even if it results in brutal, daylight

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for Hamas to be expelled from the region, a day after the U.N. Security Council endorsed President Donald Trump's plan to end the war that offers the Palestinian militant group amnesty.

Deep underneath the wreckage of Rafah, southern Gaza, the war is not over. Scores of Hamas militants, split up into independent cells, are trapped in tunnels underground behind Israeli lines, as mediators try to find a solution that doesn’t collapse the month-old ceasefire in Gaza.

In the 20-point plan, and in any other case, this area will be demilitarized and Hamas will be disarmed — either the easy way or the hard way,” the Israeli PM said in his weekly cabinet

Hamas rejected the United Nations Security Council passing a U.S.-drafted resolution endorsing U.S. President Donald Trump's Gaza plan, saying it fails to meet Palestinians' rights and demands and seeks to impose an international trusteeship on the enclave that Palestinians and resistance factions oppose.

The presence of the militants, who have killed three Israeli troops, is threatening to unravel the fragile cease-fire.

Hamas has swiftly reestablished its hold over areas from which Israel withdrew, killing dozens of Palestinians it accused of collaborating with Israel.