Hamas’s Gaza chief, Khalil al-Hayya, says the Palestinian resistance movement’s commitment to the Gaza ceasefire agreement hinges on Israel’s compliance with the accord.

Hamas rejects Israeli claims that recent bombings in Gaza are a “response” to the resistance movement’s violations of the ceasefire agreement as “lies meant to justify its massacres in Gaza.”

A senior Hamas official says the Palestinian resistance group never agreed to surrender its weapons in the course of indirect ceasefire talks.

Here are Press TV's latest top stories at 16:00 GMT on January 26, 2026.

Hawkish Israeli minister in charge of illegal settlements, Orit Strock, sharply criticizes Trump’s so-called “Board of Peace” plan, and calls on the Tel Aviv regime to reoccupy the war-ravaged Gaza Strip.

Israeli forces have demolished structures at the UNRWA headquarters in occupied East al-Quds, drawing strong condemnation from the UN agency, which labeled the action as an unprecedented breach of international law.

Hamas issues a scathing denunciation of the Israeli regime over the sheer systematic ill-treatment of Palestinian prisoners.