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.
Yemen’s Houthi terrorists released footage showing fighters placing explosives on a Greek-flagged tanker that has put the Red Sea at risk of an oil spill.
Israel says the raids across the northern West Bank — which have killed a total of 16 people, nearly all terrorists, since late Tuesday — are aimed at preventing attacks.
Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists pulled back after an exchange of heavy fire across the U.N.-drawn boundary between Lebanon and Israel over the weekend. But their decades-old conflict is far from over.
Israel says it is rooting out West Bank terrorists to prevent attacks.
The talks also come as ongoing cease-fire talks to pause the war between Israel and Hamas are set to shift to Doha after several days of intense negotiations in Cairo.
Israel believes there are still 108 hostages in Gaza and that more than 40 of them are dead.
The attack on the Sounion marks the most serious assault in weeks by the terrorists, who continue to target shipping through the Red Sea corridor over the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip.
Israel and the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah traded heavy fire early Sunday but backed off from sparking a widely feared all-out war.
Israel launched intense airstrikes in southern Lebanon early Sunday in what it said was a pre-emptive strike against the Hezbollah terrorist group.
Fires broke out Friday on a Greek-flagged oil tanker previously attacked by Yemen’s Houthi terrorists this week.
The White House said Friday that cease-fire talks in Cairo have been constructive and will continue over the weekend.
The assault, the most serious in the Red Sea in weeks, comes during a monthslong campaign by the Houthis targeting ships in response to the Israel-Hamas war.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said a delegation from the country arrived in Cairo to resume efforts to salvage a Gaza cease-fire deal.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police confirmed threats were made to “a number of institutions, including synagogues and hospitals, across Canada.”
An Israeli American Council spokesperson confirmed to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that the exhibit is situated on private property near the United Center.