Ele Ludemann: What’s not said

The first of the hostages held by Hamas are being released as I write this.

The news that President Trump’s negotiation for a ceasefire and the release of the hostages had a mixed reception.

Melanie Phillips: The return of hope

This may be the beginning of the end of Israel's long and agonising nightmare

Are they really coming home? The Jewish world scarcely dares believe it. Is this long nightmare finally over?

Under the deal that’s been agreed, Hamas will release the 20 Israeli hostages who remain alive and the bodies of another 27 over the next few days.

Brendan O'Neill: Trump has dealt a devastating blow to Israelophobia

His peace deal has left the West’s Israel-haters with nowhere left to hide.

The silence is unsettling. It’s 12 hours since President Trump announced that Israel and Hamas have assented to the first phase of his peace plan, paving the way for a ceasefire. And yet the ‘Ceasefire now’ lobby is eerily schtum. The people who’ve been noisily clamouring for an end to the war in Gaza are either mute or they’re moaning. Don’t trust that snake Benjamin Netanyahu, some say. If I thought a genocide was being executed in Gaza, a crime as cataclysmic as anything the Nazis did, I’d be on the streets celebrating this morning. Yet these people can barely be @r$ed to put a thumbs-up on Instagram.