Hamas has expressed willingness to compromise on the presence of Israeli soldiers in key areas of the Gaza Strip during a potential cease-fire, an Egyptian official told Haaretz Sunday.

One of these areas is the Philadelphi Corridor, a strip of territory along Gaza’s border with Egypt, from which the Israeli army partially withdrew during the most recent cease-fire that began in January. During that time, Palestinian forces administered the Gaza side of the Rafah border crossing, while Egyptian officials oversaw the Egyptian side.

Now, the official said, Hamas is prepared to agree to Israel maintaining control of the entire corridor for the duration of the cease-fire, while the two sides negotiate the area’s future.

Hamas is also willing to accept an IDF presence in peripheral and uninhabited areas of the Gaza Strip for the span of the cease-fire, the official said. He noted that while this marks a shift in Hamas’ negotiating position, it is only a tactical one. According to the official, key areas of disagreement between Israel and Hamas remain unresolved, particularly Hamas’ demand for guarantees that the war will end — a condition Israel has so far refused to accept.

Here are the latest updates on day 630 of the war:

■ Rabbis and other public figures from the Jewish community in Iran have been arrested on suspicion of having ties to Israel, according to the Collectif Femme Azadi, an organization representing Iranian women in exile. The group said that the accusations of collaboration with Israel lack any evidentiary basis.

■ Violent clashes broke out between Hamas forces and armed members of the Barbakh clan near Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza’s Khan Yunis, resulting in several casualties following a gun battle.

■ Israeli fighter jets carried out airstrikes targeting military sites belonging to Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, the Israeli army said Friday. The site was part of an underground Hezbollah project that had been targeted by the military in the past, and recent efforts to rebuild it were detected in recent days.

■ Lebanon’s Health Ministry said that a woman was killed and 11 people were wounded, following an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon.

■ Medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that at least 26 people were killed Friday morning as a result of Israeli airstrikes and artillery fire in several areas across the Strip.

■ Senior Trump administration officials have urged Israel to send its negotiation team to Cairo next week to advance talks with Hamas, a source who spoke to several officials in recent days told Haaretz.

■ IDF chief: Israel set back Iran’s nuclear and ballistic programs, eliminated people leading “the effort to destroy Israel.”

■ The U.S. State Department announced it will provide $30 million in funding to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). Principal Deputy Spokesperson Tommy Piggot urged other nations to join the U.S. in supporting the organization.

■ The Trump administration is considering offering several incentives to Iran to secure its return to the negotiating table. Incentives include $30 billion in support for a civilian energy program, the easing of sanctions, and the release of billions of dollars in frozen Iranian funds, according to four sources familiar with the proceedings, as reported to CNN.

U.S. President Donald Trump, in a post on Truth Social, said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s trials were distracting from Gaza and Iran talks and called them a witch-hunt, similar to his own trials.

“It is terrible what they are doing in Israel to Bibi Netanyahu. He is a War Hero, and a Prime Minister who did a fabulous job working with the United States to bring Great Success in getting rid of the dangerous Nuclear threat in Iran. Importantly, he is right now in the process of negotiating a Deal with Hamas, which will include getting the Hostages back,” said Trump.

He added: “How is it possible that the Prime Minister of Israel can be forced to sit in a Courtroom all day long, over NOTHING (Cigars, Bugs Bunny Doll, etc.). It is a POLITICAL WITCH HUNT, very similar to the Witch Hunt that I was forced to endure. This travesty of ‘Justice’ will interfere with both Iran and Hamas negotiations. In other words, it is INSANITY doing what the out-of-control prosecutors are doing to Bibi Netanyahu.”

Trump warned that the “United States of America spends Billions of Dollar a year, far more than on any other Nation, protecting and supporting Israel. We are not going to stand for this.”

“We just had a Great Victory with Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu at the helm — And this greatly tarnishes our Victory. LET BIBI GO, HE’S GOT A BIG JOB TO DO!” Trump said.

Sunday marks day 631 of the Israeli genocide against the entire Palestinian population of the Gaza Strip (apart from a brief ceasefire in February 2025, which Israel violated in March, blocking all aid from entering Gaza and resuming the daily and nightly bombardment of Palestinian civilians in all parts of the besieged coastal enclave.

Seven Palestinians were killed and others injured on Sunday morning when Israeli warplanes bombed Gaza City and Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.

Wafa news correspondents reported, citing medical sources, that five civilians, including two women and a child, were killed and others were injured when the occupation forces bombed a tent housing displaced persons in Mawasi, west of Khan Yunis.

The same sources added that two children were killed and several other civilians were injured when the Israeli occupation forces bombed the Azzam family’s home near the Daloul gas station in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City.

Several injuries were reported after an Israeli airstrike targeted a house near Al-Joulani Mosque in Al-Tuffah neighborhood, northeastern Gaza City.

The Israeli occupation forces continue to destroy residential buildings in the center of Khan Yunis, while artillery shelling continues in the outskirts of Rafah.

Forced displacements:

The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continue to forcibly displace thousands of civilians in several areas of the Gaza Strip, this time from areas in Gaza City and Jabalia, north of the Gaza Strip, amidst its ongoing genocidal war for 21 months and forced displacement plans.

The occupation demanded, via a post on social media, this Sunday morning, that all those present in the Gaza City area, Jabalia, and in the neighborhoods of eastern Zeitoun, the Old City, Turkman, Ajdeeda, al-Tuffah, al-Daraj, al-Sabra, Jabalia al-Balad, Jabalia al-Nazla, Jabalia camp, al-Rawda, al-Nahda, al-Zahour, al-Nour, al-Salam, and Tal al-Zaatar, evacuate immediately south to the al-Mawasi area.

The Israeli occupation army warned Palestinian citizens against returning to areas it described as “dangerous combat zones,” meaning areas it had warned them to evacuate.

Israeli forces “will operate with intense force in these areas, and these military operations will intensify and expand … to destroy the capabilities of the terrorist organisations”, military spokesman Avichay Adraee said in a statement, ordering residents to “evacuate immediately south to al-Mawasi“, which Israel describes as a “safe zone”.

A Palestinian youth injured in the Israeli aggression on Gaza takes to the sea in a small fishing raft, risking his life to catch fish to feed his family amid the ongoing Israeli war of hunger:

5-month-old Hani Ziyara has lost his leg in an Israeli strike on Gaza. His mother is pleading with the international community to urgently evacuate her baby for treatment abroad.

Grieving families mourn their loved ones, including children, killed in a deadly Israeli massacre against innocent civilians in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood of Gaza City.

Several people were killed and injured late last night following an Israeli shelling on a displacement tent in the Al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Younis.

From journalist Ramy Abdu: “Every morning, piles of bodies are gathered at hospitals. This is a genocide unlike anything history has witnessed—committed by a brutal entity with no regard for values or norms, thriving on a false narrative of victimhood.”:

The Israeli occupation forces have continued their aggression on the Gaza Strip, by land, sea, and air, since October 7, 2023. This has resulted in the killing of 56,412 Palestinian citizens, the majority of whom are women and children, and the injury of 133,054 others, in a preliminary toll. Thousands of victims remain under the rubble and on the streets, unable to be reached by ambulances and rescue teams.

The genocide left approximately 189,000 Palestinians dead or wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing. Hundreds of thousands were displaced, and a famine claimed the lives of many, including children.

A recent study estimated that the casualty count could be much higher – an estimated 377,000 Palestinians dead from the Israeli massacre over the past 21 months.