# 2025 in the State of Palestine

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Events in the year 2025 in Palestine.

## Incumbents

| Photo | Post | Name |
| | President (PLO) | Mahmoud Abbas |
| | Prime Minister | Mohammad Mustafa |
* Government of Palestine – Nineteenth government of Palestine

## Events

* Ongoing — Gaza war

### January

* 1 January — The Palestinian Authority orders the suspension of broadcasts and operations by Al Jazeera in the West Bank, accusing it of broadcasting "inciting materials" and "misleading reports" that "provoke strife and interfere in Palestinian internal affairs".
* 2 January — Mahmoud Salah, the chief of police of the Gaza Strip, is killed along with his deputy, Hussam Shahwan, and nine others in an Israeli airstrike in Al-Mawasi, Rafah.
* 6 January – Palestinian gunmen kill three Israelis and injure eight others in a mass shooting on a bus in al-Funduq, West Bank.
* 17 January –
** The Cabinet of Israel approves a ceasefire and prisoner exchange deal with Hamas.
** Defense Minister Israel Katz announces that all Israeli settlers in administrative detention will be released in response to the release of Palestinian prisoners in the ceasefire deal.
* 19 January –
** The ceasefire and prisoner exchange deal with Hamas comes into effect.
** The IDF announces that the body of Oron Shaul, who was killed and captured by Hamas during the 2014 Gaza War, was recovered in an operation in Northern Gaza.
* 20 January – The first batch of 90 Palestinian prisoners to be released as part of the ceasefire agreement arrive in the West Bank.
* 21 January – The IDF conducts drone strikes and a ground raid in Jenin in a counterterrorism operation codenamed "Iron Wall", killing at least eight Palestinians and injuring 35.
* 25 January –
** Four female IDF soldiers captured by Hamas during the 7 October attacks, including Naama Levy, are released by the group as part of the ceasefire agreement.
** Two hundred Palestinian prisoners are released by Israel as part of the ceasefire agreement with Hamas.
* 27 January – Displaced Palestinians are allowed to return to the north of the Gaza Strip as part of the ceasefire agreement.
* 30 January –
** Three Israelis and five Thais captured by Hamas during the 7 October attacks are released by the group as part of the ceasefire agreement.
** 110 Palestinian prisoners are released by Israel as part of the ceasefire agreement.
** Hamas confirms the killings of al-Qassam Brigades commander Mohammed Deif and his deputy Marwan Issa.

### February

* 1 February –
** Three Israelis captured by Hamas during the 7 October attacks are released by the group as part of the ceasefire agreement.
** 183 Palestinian prisoners are released by Israel as part of the ceasefire agreement.
* 4 February –
** A gunman kills two IDF soldiers at a checkpoint in Tayasir in the West Bank before being killed by responding soldiers.
** US President Donald Trump announces that the US would take over the Gaza Strip.
* 8 February –
** 183 Palestinian prisoners are released by Israel as part of the ceasefire agreement.
** Three Israelis captured by Hamas during the 7 October attacks are released by the group as part of the ceasefire agreement.
* 9 February – The IDF withdraws from the Netzarim Corridor in the Gaza Strip as part of the ceasefire agreement.
* 10 February – Israeli police raid two bookstores in occupied East Jerusalem, including the Educational Bookshop. The store's owner and his nephew are arrested and the books are seized.
* 15 February –
** 369 Palestinian prisoners are released by Israel as part of the ceasefire agreement.
** Three Israelis captured by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad during the 7 October attacks are released by both groups as part of the ceasefire agreement.
* 20 February – Hamas returns the bodies of Kfir and Ariel Bibas and Oded Lifshitz, who were captured during the 7 October attacks but later died in captivity, as part of the ceasefire agreement. A fourth body, which Hamas claimed was Shiri Bibas, is later found to have been misidentified as a hostage. Hamas subsequently says that Shiri's remains had been mixed with those of other victims following an Israeli airstrike and that it will examine allegations over Shiri's remains, while asking Israel to return the body, which it identifies as a Palestinian woman.
* 21 February – Hamas says that it had handed over the remains of Shiri Bibas, which are subsequently identified by forensic experts.
* 22 February – Four Israelis captured by Hamas during the 7 October attacks and two others held in captivity after entering the Gaza Strip on their own in 2014 and 2015 are released by the group as part of the ceasefire agreement. They are the final living hostages held by Hamas to be released in the first phase of the deal.
* 26 February –
** Hamas returns the bodies of four hostages captured during the 7 October attacks but later died in captivity, as part of the ceasefire agreement.
** 596 Palestinian prisoners are released by Israel as part of the ceasefire agreement.
* 27 February – 46 Palestinian prisoners are released by Israel as part of the ceasefire agreement.

### March

* 2 March – No Other Land, a documentary directed by two Palestinian and two Israeli filmmakers about Israeli demolitions in Masafer Yatta, West Bank, wins an Oscar for Best Documentary at the 97th Academy Awards.
* 18 March – Israel breaks the ceasefire between it and Hamas and launches attacks on Gaza.