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Israel’s Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana and House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday unveiled what they called a first-of-its-kind global parliamentary bid to nominate President Donald J. Trump for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize, declaring that “no one has ever deserved that honor more” and that “no person in the world has done more for peace over the past year.”

President Donald Trump on Thursday met with recently freed Israeli hostages at the White House, just over a month after a historic Middle East peace deal that has thus far secured the release of the remaining living, and 25 of 28 deceased hostages, who were held captive by Hamas.

The Iranian regime held massive rallies in over 900 cities on Tuesday to commemorate the anniversary of the hostage crisis at the U.S. Embassy in 1979 – an event known as the “National Day of Fighting Global Arrogance” in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

The terrorists of Hamas returned the remains of three more slain hostages to Israel on Sunday. All three were Israeli soldiers who were killed attempting to repel the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023. The terrorists dragged their bodies back to Gaza to use as bargaining chips.

Israel confirmed Thursday night that two bodies delivered by the Hamas terrorist organization via the Red Cross were those of two dead Israeli hostages, Amiram Cooper, 85, and Sahar Baruch, 25.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) issued a rare criticism of Hamas on Tuesday after the terrorist organization staged a fake retrieval of a body it falsely claimed to be that of a missing hostage.

Hamas was caught on video faking the retrieval of a body of one of the 13 dead Israeli hostages whose bodies it was supposed to hand over two weeks ago under President Donald Trump’s ceasefire agreement.

Hamas staged a fake recovery of a hostage’s body in the Gaza Strip, according to Israeli soldiers who observed the event; and also returned a coffin to Israel Monday that contained more remains of a previously recovered hostage.

Arab and Muslim nations that are expected to contribute to a peacekeeping force in Gaza are reportedly afraid to face Hamas, due to the group’s ferocity and the perception of appearing to be occupiers.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance arrived in Israel on Tuesday and told reporters that he was confident Hamas was committed to its ceasefire with Israel in Gaza — but that it would be “obliterated” if it failed to disarm.

The Iran-backed Houthi insurgents of Yemen raided a United Nations compound in the occupied capital of Sanaa on Saturday and took 20 employees hostage, the latest of several mass kidnappings the Houthis have conducted against U.N. personnel.

Israel is rejecting claims by Hamas, reiterated by the media, that the terrorist group has not delivered all of the remaining bodies of dead hostages, as promised, because it cannot locate them amid the rubble of Gaza.

U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner sparked controversy Sunday by defending Hamas’s good faith in the Gaza ceasefire, and suggesting Israel needs to treat Palestinians better.

The Israeli government demanded to know Sunday why the world is silent in the face of Hamas’s abuse of Palestinians in Gaza, including public beatings and executions, carried out in the ten days since the ceasefire.

The ceasefire in Gaza is holding, despite the fact that Hamas is violating it by executing rivals in public, delaying the transfer of the bodies of Israeli hostages, and even attacking Israeli soldiers on patrol.

Hamas offered starving hostages more food if they converted to Islam — and they refused, according to statements by families of some of the 20 living hostages who were returned to Israel earlier this week.

Rom Braslavski, freed this week after two years in captivity under the terrorist group Palestinian Islamic Jihad, was systematically tortured, kept in shackles, and repeatedly pressed to renounce his Jewish faith and convert to Islam in exchange for food, his mother told Hebrew media Wednesday.

A forensic examination revealed that one of the bodies delivered by Hamas via the Red Cross was not of an Israeli hostage, but of a Palestinian from Gaza.

One of the bodies handed over by Hamas terrorists as part of the Middle East ceasefire deal is not one of the hostages who was held in Gaza, the Israeli military said Wednesday.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), whose official “@GovPressOffice” account has been posting increasingly vicious attacks on President Donald Trump, crossed a line Tuesday by mocking the release of Israeli hostages.

Argentina on Monday celebrated the release of the last three remaining Argentine hostages taken by the jihadist terrorist group Hamas on October 7. 

Donald Trump Jr. resurrected a clip of “The View” co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin vowing to wear a MAGA hat on air if President Trump succeeded in freeing Israeli hostages held by Hamas.

As President Donald Trump works tirelessly to secure peace in the Middle East, overseeing the release of hostages and the signing of a historic ceasefire, the wife of New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani publicly mourned a Palestinian social media figure killed in Gaza known for promoting Hamas propaganda. Rama Duwaji has not yet commented on the hostage release or Trump’s agreement.

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon said that “Hamas didn’t comply with the agreement today” by failing to deliver the remains of all the deceased hostages and only

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Deputy Chief of Mission for Israel’s Embassy in D.C. Eliav Benjamin stated that while Hamas was given 72 hours to release the remains of deceased hostages, “let’s also remember that 70 hours were

Guy Gilboa-Dalal and Evyatar David endured systematic starvation, psychological torture, and months buried alive in Hamas tunnels before Monday’s historic release after two years in captivity.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) praised President Donald Trump and his administration for helping to make happen the release and safe return of 20 living Israeli hostages.

President Donald Trump went off-script during a speech Monday and asked for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be pardoned.

The final Israeli hostages to be released by Hamas as part of President Donald Trump’s peace deal were reunited with their families on Monday — parents, children, brothers, sisters, lovers, friends, and neighbors.

Conservatives across the country on Monday celebrated President Donald Trump’s historic peace deal, noting that “he accomplished what no other world leader could.”

Israeli Hostage Evyatar David, whom Hamas forced to dig his own grave in a tunnel, is now safely back in Israel, freed and returned as a result of U.S. President Donald Trump’s deal to end the war in Gaza.

U.S. President Donald Trump told Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, on Monday that “This is not only the end of a war, but the end of an age of terror and death, and the beginning of an age of faith and hope.”

Israelis celebrated Monday as word spread that the 20 living Israeli hostages had been released by Hamas to the Red Cross, and as U.S. President Donald Trump touched down in Israel ahead of his speech to the Knesset.

TEL AVIV—As the fragile ceasefire in Gaza holds, Israel anticipates the release of all remaining Israeli hostages, including its final 20 living hostages, from Hamas captivity Monday morning, under the first phase of a historic U.S.-brokered peace plan spearheaded by President Donald Trump.

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the nation Sunday night on the eve of the return of the remaining hostages to Israel, calling it “an evening of tears and joy,” while warning that the threat to Israel’s security “is not over.”

Vice President JD Vance announced Sunday that Hamas will release its remaining hostages “any minute now” as President Donald Trump prepares to depart for a historic trip to Israel.