4 Oct 2025

Latest from the Middle East

From Saturday Morning, 7:19 am on 4 October 2025

US president Donald Trump has given Hamas a deadline of noon on Monday New Zealand time to accept his peace deal or face "all hell".

He presented the 20-point plan with backing from several nations in the Middle East earlier this week.

Meanwhile four Italian activists are among the first to be deported by Israel after being captured as part of the Sumud Aid Flotilla that was trying to get aid into Gaza.

Our correspondent Jesse Rosenfeld joins Susie Ferguson live from Ramallah.

A child walks at a camp for displaced Palestinians set up near the beach in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, on October 2, 2025, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

A camp in the southern Gaza Strip for displaced Palestinians. Photo: OMAR AL-QATTAA / AFP