CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli planes and tanks pounded areas in eastern Gaza on Thursday, Palestinian residents and witnesses said, a day after Israel said it remained committed to a U.S.-backed ceasefire despite launching more lethal bombardments in the territory.

The Red Cross said it transferred the unidentified remains of three people to Israel late Friday but they were still being examined and may not be those of missing hostages, an Israeli military official said.

The temporary dividing line between two foes is becoming more permanent, with earthworks and plans for civilian infrastructure.

Israel’s military said Wednesday that the ceasefire was back on in Gaza after it carried out heavy airstrikes overnight across the Palestinian territory that killed 104 people, including 46 children,

Jerusalem Post Editor-in-Chief Zvika Klein spoke with Fox News Digital about the American news media's coverage of the Israel-Hamas war, singling out The New York Times' reporting.

The crown prince of Saudi Arabia is pushing for a security pact and a nuclear deal with the United States yet is not expected to recognize Israel soon, despite President Trump’s wishes.

Mamdani was joined in the protest by other radicals, including Siraj Wahhaj, a Brooklyn imam who was an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and once acted as a character witness for Omar Abdel-Rahman, the terrorist who organized it. Mamdani recently came under fire for campaigning with Wahhaj.

If Zohran Mamdani wins New York City’s mayor’s race next month, he would become the city’s first Muslim mayor and its youngest in a century.

In September, Jews for Racial & Economic Justice, a progressive New York-based organizing group, filled a Sunset Park sports center for its gala, the Mazals, with some 1,000 attendees. Dressed in a high-low mix of sequins and clogs, attendees bumped into childhood friends from summer camp, while a speaker shouted, “Mazel tov and free Palestine!”

Israel accused Hamas of firing on Israeli troops and returning remains that belonged to a hostage whose body the military had already partially recovered.