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.
An Israeli strike on the Syrian capital on Saturday destroyed a building used by the Iranian paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, killing at least five Iranians.
The comments by Gadi Eisenkot, a former army chief, marked the latest sign of disagreement among top Israeli officials over the direction of the war against Hamas terrorists, now in its fourth month.
U.S. fighter jets struck Iranian-backed Houthi rebel sites Friday, taking out three anti-ship missiles in Yemen that were prepared to fire, according to U.S. officials.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday rejected U.S. calls to scale back Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip, drawing an immediate scolding from the White House.
Kfir Bibas has become a symbol across Israel for the helplessness and anger over the 136 hostages still in captivity in Gaza.
Biden said the U.S. would continue the strikes against Houthi military sites, even though they have not stopped the Houthis from continuing to harass vessels.
A senior Hamas teorrist official said that for every box provided for the hostages, 1,000 boxes of medicine would be sent in for Palestinians. The deal also includes the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza residents.
New sanctions come with a formal designation that is meant to sever violent extremist groups from their sources of financing.
Palestinian terrorists battled Israeli forces in northern Gaza and launched a barrage of rockets from farther south on Tuesday.
The Biden administration is expected to soon announce plans to redesignate Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen as specially designated global terrorists.
The U.S. launched a new strike against Houthis on Tuesday, hitting anti-ship missiles in the third assault on the Iranian-backed group in recent days.
Israel’s defense minister said the intense Israeli military offensive in the southern Gaza Strip will soon be scaled back.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak told the U.K. Parliament that U.K. strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen, conducted alongside the United States, were “limited, not escalatory.”
The attack on the Gibraltar Eagle, later claimed by the Houthis, further escalates tensions gripping the Red Sea after American-led strikes on the rebels.
Israeli soccer player Sagiv Jehezkel returned to Israel to a cheering crowd, hours after he was briefly detained in Turkey for allegedly inciting hatred.