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The White House reportedly told Prime Minister Netanyahu that the assassination of senior Hamas figure Ra'ad Sa'ad constitutes a violation of the ceasefire agreement.

DOHA, Qatar (AP) — With the remains of one hostage still in Gaza, the first phase of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas is nearly complete, after a two-month process plagued by delays and finger-pointing.

The fragile Gaza ceasefire is now hanging by a thread after an Israeli airstrike on the Gaza coast killed Raad Saad, Hamas’s weapons chief marking the highest-profile assassination since the October truce.

Israel has killed senior Hamas military figure Raad Saad in an airstrike on Gaza’s Rashid coastal road, in a move both sides frame as a major test of the new US‑brokered ceasefire. Saad, long described by Israeli officials as Hamas’s number‑two and head of its weapons‑manufacturing network,

The fragile Israel-Hamas truce has reached an inflection point as the cease-fire deal hinges on the release of all hostages before it can move on to the next phase, but the terror group claims it can’t find the body of the final captive.

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