NewsTracker Answers for week of Oct. 13, 2025

Q: Israel and Hamas began implementing a ceasefire agreement last week to stop fighting in Gaza, exchange all remaining hostages for many Palestinian prisoners, and resume humanitarian aid to Gaza. Where is Israel and the Gaza Strip?

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Q: The ceasefire agreement was reached last week during negotiations in which nation that borders both Israel and the Gaza Strip?

A. Egypt

B. Jordan

C. Lebanon

D. Syria


A. Israel borders Egypt to the southwest, Jordan to the east, Syria to the northeast, and Lebanon to the north. Egypt controlled the Gaza Strip from 1948, after Israel declared independence, until 1967, when Israel seized control of Gaza during the Six-Day War.


Q: Both Palestinians and Israelis celebrated the ceasefire agreement amid hope for a peace plan proposed by President Donald Trump. Israel, Hamas, and Egypt participated in last week’s negotiations along with ...

A. Qatar

B. Turkey

C. United States

D. All of the above


D. The United States joined its three friendly Muslim-majority Mideast nations in mediating talks between Israel and Hamas. The ceasefire was welcomed, but doubts for a lasting peace remained over tough issues about governing Gaza, disarming Hamas, securing the peace, and fully withdrawing Israeli forces.


Q: Desperate Gaza residents have started receiving hundreds of truckloads of critical food, medical supplies, tents, blankets, and fuel. War has reduced most of Gaza to rubble. How many Gazans were forced to leave their homes?

A. All

B. 90%

C. 80%

D. 70%


B. The war displaced about 90% of Gaza’s 2 million residents and killed more than 67,000 of them. With fighting stopped, more bodies were being pulled out of the rubble. Famine was declared in parts of Gaza, and the war led to accusations of genocide. Israel vehemently denied both allegations.


Q: Trump flew to Israel on Sunday, hoping to bring “eternal peace” among people who have been fighting and killing each other for more than a century. Who first promised land to both Jews trying to create Israel and Arabs trying to establish a state of Palestine?

A. British

B. French

C. Germans

D. Ottomans


A. The British took control of Palestine from the defeated Ottoman Empire after World War I. They promised Jews they could build a homeland on some of the land, angering Arabs. Israeli military victories in 1948 and 1967 created more than 1 million Arab refugees, whose population has grown to about 6 million.