The Post entered Gaza and saw the haunting battlefield in the wake of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal announced by President Trump on September 29.

Two Palestinians, including a child, were killed in an Israeli airstrike in the southern Gaza Strip on Monday after another man was killed by Israeli fire on Sunday, the local health authorities said. Israel's military did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment on the strikes.

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel on Monday returned the remains of 15 Palestinians to Gaza in the latest step forward for a U.S.-brokered ceasefire, as a top White House envoy met with Israeli leaders to discuss the next stages of the fragile agreement.

The Israeli prime minister's office says he'll convene generals to discuss "a clear violation" of the U.S.-brokered peace deal by Hamas, and Israel's response.

HOLON, Israel (Reuters) -Released Israeli hostage Bar Kupershtein says he managed to survive two years in a cramped Hamas tunnel in Gaza with no sunlight, little food and regular beatings, by clinging to his belief that he was in God's hands the entire time.

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

Officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity did not provide details on whether the Gazans referenced in the intelligence were captured Hamas terrorists or civilians. The United States allegedly gathered intelligence last year of Israeli officials discussing how their soldiers had sent Palestinians into Hamas terror tunnels the Israelis suspected may have been lined with explosives,