The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas that Donald Trump championed has mostly held, but progress has slowed recently.
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The vote was a crucial next step for the fragile ceasefire and efforts to outline Gaza’s future following two years of war between Israel and Hamas.
The remains of four hostages are still in Gaza after Palestinian militants released the remains of another on Sunday.
With Monday’s return, the bodies of 270 Palestinians have been handed back since the start of the ceasefire.
Since the ceasefire in Gaza took effect on Oct. 10, Palestinian militants had released the remains of 17 hostages, with 11 remaining in Gaza.
Had President Donald Trump not been re-elected, terrorist entities would try to “wipe out” the State of Israel, Sen. Rick Scott told a packed crowd in Las Vegas.
Yehuda Bauer, one of Israel’s foremost Holocaust scholars who shaped the way people around the world study and learn about the Holocaust, has died in Jerusalem. He was 98.
President Biden is “deeply concerned” about the unauthorized release of classified documents on Israel’s potential retaliation on Iran, according to a White House spokesman.
The United States is investigating an unauthorized release of classified documents that assess Israel’s plans to attack Iran, three U.S. officials told The Associated Press.
Evacuation warnings affected southern Beirut, the eastern Bekaa valley and parts of southern Lebanon. AP video showed strikes near Lebanon’s only airport but it continued to operate.
Israel launched its ground invasion into southern Lebanon on Oct. 1 and has since sent thousands of troops into the rugged terrain.
Israel’s military said dozens of projectiles were launched from Lebanon a day after Hezbollah announced a new phase in fighting.
The attack appeared to be the first use of the B-2 in combat in years and the first time the flying wing targeted sites in Yemen.
The standoff comes as Israel’s war with Lebanon’s Hezbollah — a Hamas ally backed by Iran — has intensified in recent weeks.
Vice President Kamala Harris echoed Biden’s statement, saying Thursday that Israel’s killing Sinwar offers “an opportunity to finally end the war in Gaza.”
Yahya Sinwar was a chief architect of last year’s attack on Israel that sparked the war.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin warned their Israeli counterparts in a letter dated Sunday that the changes must occur.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to limit his country’s retaliation against Iran, according to a report in The Washington Post.
It was the deadliest strike by the Hezbollah terrorist group since Israel launched its ground invasion of Lebanon nearly two weeks ago.
The United States will send a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense battery to Israel, along with the troops needed to operate it, the Pentagon said Sunday.
A drone strike hit central Israel on Sunday, wounding more than 60 people, some of them critically, rescue services said.