Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu published a video on Tuesday evening explaining why Israel had returned to war against Hamas in Gaza after the Palestinian terrorist organization refused a new ceasefire deal.

Israel consulted with President Donald Trump’s administration before renewing its attack on Hamas in Gaza, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News on Monday night.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) resumed attacks on Hamas in the Gaza Strip early Tuesday local time, after the terror group refused repeated attempts to extend a ceasefire and release all of its remaining Israeli and American hostages.

The Palestinian terrorist organization known as Hamas offered Friday to release one living American hostage and the bodies of four dead American hostages while retaining about 55 Israeli hostages, in response to American proposals.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Sunday that Israel will be halting all movement of goods into Gaza, following Hamas’s apparent rejection of a ceasefire proposal suggested by President Donald Trump’s envoy.

Israel accepted a new proposal by the Trump administration on Saturday night, under which all of the 63 remaining hostages would be released over the course of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, en route to a permanent ceasefire.

Freed Israeli hostage Eli Sharabi has described the conditions in which he was held by Hamas in Gaza, including torture and starvation that caused him to lose 40% of his body weight until he was released earlier this month.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) released the results of its inquiry into its own failures in responding to the October 7, 2023, terror attack by Hamas on Thursday, finding it had underestimated Hamas and misunderstood it as pragmatic.

A senior Hamas official told the New York Times last week that he would not have supported the October 7, 2023, terror attack against Israel if he had known the outcome — the destruction of Hamas and the devastation of Gaza.

Israel foiled a plot Thursday by Palestinian terrorists to blow up several buses after some of the explosives blew up prematurely on empty buses, alerting authorities to the overall plan.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Thursday that one of the four hostage corpses handed over by Hamas as part of the ceasefire deal was not, in fact, the right person.

Israelis are mourning Thursday as the bodies of four hostages — including an elderly man and two small children — were returned in locked coffins, following a gruesome handover ceremony by Palestinian Hamas terrorists in Gaza.

The iconic Bibas children — Ariel, 5, and Kfir, 2 — and their mother, Shiri, have been confirmed as being among the four dead hostages to be returned Thursday to Israel under the ceasefire agreement with Hamas. Their father, Yarden, was released alive several weeks ago, and did not know the fate of his wife or their two children.

Israel reiterated Thursday that it would end the current ceasefire and return to war in Gaza if Hamas did not release “hostages” by noon on Saturday — but it appeared to back away from a threat to act if “all” hostages are not released.

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said Tuesday that if Hamas did not release all 73 of the remaining hostages still in Gaza by noon on Saturday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) would resume attacking “until the final defeat of Hamas.”

The Palestinian Authority agreed Monday to end the so-called “Pay to Slay” policy of paying stipends to Palestinian terrorists, alive or dead — though Israel said that the Palestinian government was simply trying to reroute the funds.

Israelis were shocked Saturday at the physical condition of three emaciated hostages released by Hamas under the ongoing ceasefire deal, with many condemning the evident starvation of the Israelis after nearly 500 days in captivity.

Comedian and actor Michael Rapaport offered his reaction Thursday to President Donald Trump’s suggestion that the U.S. take over the Gaza Strip after relocating most of the Palestinian population, saying there may be no other option.

USAID materials were found among weapons used by Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon, according to a newly-released photograph.

New documents reportedly reveal that Hamas, the Palestinian terror organization formerly in control of Gaza, tortured and executed those of its members it suspected of homosexual activity, according to the New York Post.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Monday with National Security Adviser Mike Waltz and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, after the latter viewed a 47-minute film detailing Hamas atrocities in the October 7 attack.

President Donald Trump will reportedly defund the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the agency for Palestinian “refugees” that has aligned with Hamas terrorists, this week. Trump will also withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council, which has

U.S. citizen Keith Siegel was released from captivity on Saturday as part of a ceasefire and hostage deal between Israel and Hamas, which was brokered with help from the outgoing Biden administration and President Donald Trump.

South Africa and eight other nations, including totalitarian Cuba, formed the so-called “Hague Group” on Friday with the explicit aim of opposing Israel, and denying it the mean to defend itself against Palestinian terrorist attacks.

A freed Israeli hostage told Israel’s Channel 12 that he had once been held for 12 hours beneath a Red Cross office in Gaza, and feared that he would be executed — while the Red Cross failed to visit any of the hostages held in Gaza.

U.S. citizen Keith Siegel, 65, is to be freed from Gaza on Saturday, after being held in captivity by Hamas terrorists for nearly 500 days.

Three Israeli hostages and five Thai hostages were freed by Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists in Gaza on Thursday amid shocking scenes of a mob of Palestinians shoving two of the hostages as they were transferred to the Red Cross.

President Donald Trump suggested for the second time in three days that Palestinians would be better off leaving Gaza after the conclusion of the latest war that Hamas terrorists have launched against Israeli civilians.

President Donald Trump re-designated the Houthi rebels in Yemen as a Foreign Terrorist Organization on his third day in office Wednesday, restoring a status that former President Joe Biden had reversed upon taking office in 2021.

Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi resigned Tuesday over the military’s failures to anticipate the Hamas terror attack of October 7, 2023. Major General Yaron Finkelman, who leads the IDF Southern Command, announced his intention to resign

Donald Trump repeated his warning to Hamas: the “gates of hell” will open if they do not free the hostages they are still holding by his Inauguration on January 20, the President-elect told radio host Hugh Hewitt on Monday.

The Iran-backed Palestinian terrorist group Hamas fired a rocket Saturday that hit the Erez Crossing, a border crossing that is a major conduit for humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip.

President Joe Biden will make time to visit New Orleans on Monday after the city was stunned by an ISIS-inspired terrorist attack on New Year’s Day morning.

Israel is planning to establish military outposts in southern Lebanon and southwestern Syria as a means of defending Israeli communities from being attacked by Hezbollah or other terror groups, according to a report in Israeli media.

Federal officials do not believe the suspect in the New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans had help from four other people recorded on surveillance cameras.

The mosque reportedly attended by New Orleans terrorist Shamsud Din Jabbar urged members to refer inquiries from the FBI to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Islamic Society of Greater Houston.

Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters marched in New York City on New Year’s Day for “intifada,” blocking Sixth Avenue in Manhattan just hours after a terror attack in New Orleans, Louisiana, and an explosion in Las Vegas, Nevada.
