Iran’s stockpile of uranium enriched just below the level needed for nuclear weapons surged more than 50% in the last three months, defying mounting pressure on the Islamic Republic to curb its atomic activities.

The families of hostages still in Gaza are struggling to maintain hope they’ll see their loved ones soon as uncertainty swirls over the future of the fragile ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas.

Israeli and Hamas officials said Tuesday they have reached an agreement to exchange the bodies of dead hostages for the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, keeping their fragile ceasefire intact for at least a few more days.

Agam Berger, a 20-year-old Israeli soldier freed in the current ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, said that faith sustained her in captivity as she was moved around multiple times during the nearly 16 months she was held in the Gaza Strip.

A Gaza Health Ministry official said the ministry has recorded 15 deaths from hypothermia this winter, all of them children. The ceasefire has allowed a surge in humanitarian aid, but residents say there are still shortages of blankets and warm clothing, and little wood available for fires.

The gathering opened Tuesday in the Syrian capital of Damascus. The organizers said some 600 people from across the country were invited to the conference hosted by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, which led the offensive that ousted Assad in December.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will not allow Syria’s new army or the insurgent group that led the ouster of former President Bashar Assad to “enter the area south of Damascus” as his government made clear Israeli forces would stay in parts of southern Syria for an indefinite period.

The precision airstrike killed Wasim Tahsin Bayraqdar, a senior leadership facilitator of the terrorist organization Hurras al-Din.

Israeli tanks moved into the occupied West Bank on Sunday for the first time in decades in what Palestinian authorities called a “dangerous escalation,” after the defense minister said troops will remain in parts of the territory for a year and tens of thousands of Palestinians who have fled cannot return.

Hundreds of thousands of people packed into a stadium in Beirut and the streets outside Sunday for the funeral of Hezbollah’s former leader, Hassan Nasrallah, nearly five months after he was killed in an Israeli airstrike.