Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a veiled criticism of U.S. President Joe Biden on Sunday, ahead of a visit by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, warning the administration that Israel “will not agree to every deal, and not at any price.”
A proposal to free some of the remaining 130 or so Israeli hostages has stalled because different groups of Hamas leaders cannot agree on whether to accept a proposal that stops short of fully ending the war, which some have said is a core demand in any deal.
On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Chris Jansing Reports,” Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) said that she supports a two-state solution in the Middle East, but “it’s pretty understandable that perhaps Israelis are not quite ready to take the step of
Israeli officials have estimated that Hamas hijacks 50% to 60% of the humanitarian aid trucks entering Gaza, according to the Times of Israel.
The Qatari regime is paying a firm run by Jay Footlik, a former Clinton administration aide, to advise the families of Israeli hostages, according to a report Wednesday by Politico. The fee is $40,000 per month, and clients are told not to criticize Qatar.
Hamas, the Palestinian terror group that carried out the October 7 attack against Israel, is represented on both sides of the negotiating table over Israeli hostages, thanks to the intervention of Qatar and Egypt, and the posture of the Biden administration.
Relatives and supporters of Israeli hostages being held by Hamas have attempted to block humanitarian aid entering Gaza over the past week, gathering at border crossings to protest and to obstruct truck convoys of supplies being sent through Israel.
The Palestinian Hamas terrorist organization reportedly rejected an Israeli offer Monday for a deal to free the remaining 132 or so hostages still in captivity in Gaza because the proposed agreement did not include a permanent end to Israel’s counteroffensive.
If Hamas survives the current war with Israel, then “they’ve won,” according to retired United States Army Major and urban and subterranean warfare expert John Spencer, who slammed the terror group’s use of “human sacrifice” tactics and warned that if Israel did not completely dismantle the organization then “massive genocidal attacks” and the taking of civilian hostages would be replicated by terrorists across the globe.
A large group of Palestinians evacuating from the southern Gaza city of Khan Yunis were seen chanting “The people want to overthrow Hamas” on a video published online Saturday by the humanitarian wing of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
The Palestinian terror group Hamas released a new propaganda video on Friday showing three female Israeli hostages, each saying that their lives were in danger from the Israeli military — not from Hamas — and urging Israel’s leaders to stop the war.
Former Israeli Chief Justice Aharon Barak dissented from the preliminary ruling of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) Friday on whether Israel is committing “genocide” Friday, saying the court “has wrongly sought to impute the crime of Cain to Abel.”
Israeli actress and producer Noa Tishby took to a pro-Palestinian protest that shut down the Sundance Film Festival over the weekend, talking to demonstrators and revealing the basic ignorance of those chanting against Israel with radical slogans.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Thursday that Israeli soldiers had achieved “operational control” in the center of Khan Yunis, the most important Hamas stronghold in the Gaza Strip, where terrorist leaders are thought to be hiding underground.
The Arabic-language spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Lt. Col. Avichay Adraee, revealed footage Wednesday of a protest by Palestinian residents of central Gaza demanding that Hamas release its Israeli hostages so that the war can end.
Qatar slammed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, after the latter was reported to have called Qatar “problematic” because it hosts the terrorist billionaire leaders of Hamas while also mediating between Hamas and Israel.
An Israeli government spokesperson said Wednesday that Hamas had violated an agreement brokered by Qatar on the transfer of medicines to Israeli hostages, and that therefore there will be no deal on a ceasefire, despite ongoing media speculation this week.
Freed Israeli hostages told the Israeli parliament, or Knesset, this week about the sexual abuse committed by Hamas terrorists against both male and female hostages in Gaza, according to Israeli government spokesman Eylon Levy in a briefing on Tuesday.
Israeli authorities have reportedly foiled a planned terror attack in Jerusalem by two Arab residents of East Jerusalem who had pledged loyalty to the so-called “Islamic State,” or ISIS.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu firmly rejected a Biden administration-backed plan Sunday to end the war in Gaza, with Hamas still holding onto its weapons and power, in exchange for the staged release of the remaining 136 Israeli hostages.
The U.S., Qatar, and Egypt have reportedly proposed a deal in which Hamas would free the remaining 136 Israeli hostages (or their bodies) in exchange for Israel withdrawing from Gaza and ending the war without destroying the terrorist organization.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a veiled rebuke to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday night, pushing back against Blinken’s claim that Israel could not defeat Hamas in Gaza, and that it should accept a Palestinian state.
Israeli hostage Kfir Bibas, who was abducted by Hamas with his mother and four-year-old brother from Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7, turned one year old on Thursday, January 18, while still in captivity in Gaza.
Freed Israeli hostage Agam Goldstein-Almog told Israel’s Channel 13 on Tuesday that fellow female hostages were raped repeatedly by their Hamas captors in Gaza, and that her own captors threatened to forcibly “marry” her as well.
Hamas issued a new video on Monday in which it forced an Israeli hostage, Noa Argamani, announced the death of two other hostages who had appeared in another video with Argamani the day before.
The Palestinian Hamas terror organization released a 37-second video on Sunday that was the first sign that hostage Noa Argamani, 26, is still alive, along with two other Israeli hostages.
The Palestinian terror group Hamas has agreed to allow Israel to transfer lifesaving medicines to Israeli hostages in Gaza, under an agreement brokered by Qatar. In return, Israel has agreed to increase medical aid to Gaza — presumably for Hamas’s benefit.
On the 3-month anniversary of October 7, Israel issued a stern warning to the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah in Lebanon not to provoke it into a second war front.
An Israeli woman confirmed that Hamas held her against her will at a Gaza hospital where she underwent “psychological warfare.”
The Palestinian Hamas terror organization has cut off talks about releasing Israeli hostages, following an attack in Beirut, Lebanon, that killed Deputy Hamas chief Saleh al-Arouri and several other Hamas officials.
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said Saturday that Hamas terrorists continued fighting because they believed that Israel would soon have to withdraw from the Gaza Strip.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) released the results of its investigation into the accidental shooting of three Israeli hostages on December 15 who had escaped their Hamas captors in northern Gaza and were trying to signal to Israeli soldiers for help.
American-Israeli dual national Judith (Judy) Weinstein, 70, was confirmed Thursday to have been murdered by Hamas during its October 7 terror attack, not taken hostage as previously thought.
Former hostage Mia Shem, 21, says that Hamas forced her to endure surgery performed by a veterinarian and without anesthetic after she was taken to Gaza during the terror attack of October 7 and that she was held captive in ordinary Palestinian civilian homes.
On Wednesday’s “PBS NewsHour,” Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs Roger Carstens responded to a question on whether deals brokered by the Biden administration will incentivize countries to take more hostages by stating that “I might say that my case numbers
The American family of Israeli hostage Amiram Cooper, 85, is warning that he has been denied essential medication, abandoned by the Red Cross, and starved by Hamas — and that it may soon be too late to save him without urgent diplomatic intervention.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) continue to uncover massive Hamas tunnel complexes — some involving the sad discovery of the bodies of Israeli hostages.
TikTok, the Chinese-owned social media company whose role in spreading anti-Israel and antisemitic propaganda has come under scrutiny, refused an ad promoting awareness of the plight of Israeli hostages held by Hamas, deeming the ad “too political.”
Hamas murdered U.S. citizen Gad Haggai, who was abducted during the October 7 terror attack, according to a press statement by Kibbutz Nir Oz, the community where he lived with his wife, Judy Weinstein, an American who remains a hostage in Gaza.
Former Democratic Party presidential nominee Hillary Clinton used a meeting with the families of Israeli hostages Thursday to attack Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, prompting criticism that it was a “revolting, disgusting” thing for her to do.
