Exhausted and tearful Israeli families praying and hoping to see their loved ones faced renewed uncertainty Thursday as Israeli officials said a ceasefire and hostage deal will not come into effect until Friday at the earliest.
Arab Gulf nations have indicated that a condition for obtaining their financial aid to rebuild the Gaza Strip after the Hamas-Israel war has ended is a change in the leadership of the Palestinian Authority which currently governs only the West Bank, i24 News reports.
According to a Hezbollah source cited by Al Jazeera, Hezbollah will participate in the upcoming four-day ceasefire starting tomorrow, even though it was not part of the Israel-Hamas negotiation. The hostage deal made with Hamas may lead to the release of up to 50 hostages over the next four days.
Israel’s government has agreed on a controversial deal with Hamas that would ensure the release of more than 50 hostages, mostly women and children, within four days in exchange for a pause in the fighting and the release of Palestinian prisoners.
U.S. President Joe Biden said Monday that he believes a deal “is near” to free hundreds of Israeli and other hostages held by Hamas in Gaza although deadly clashes continued, including around a hospital.
Clashes along the Lebanese border persisted on Monday as Hezbollah terrorists fired rockets and deployed drones in northern Israel, causing substantial damage to an Israeli army base during one of the attacks.
Israel last week pulled no punches in accusing the United Nations and the World Health Organization of “complicity” in Hamas war crimes because these agencies did not stop the terror group from using hospitals in the Gaza Strip as bases from which to attack Israelis, Israel365 reports.
A new poll shows a combined total of 75% of Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip support Hamas’ devastating Oct. 7 attack on Israeli civilians, although Gaza residents are significantly less supportive of it, the Jerusalem Post reports. The survey was conducted on November 14 by the Arab World for Research and Development organization.
Israel’s military showed a video it said revealed hostages being taken to Gaza’s largest hospital by Hamas and a tunnel beneath the same medical facility used by “the terrorist organization.”
Following a period of relative calm, sirens wailed on Saturday morning across Israeli northern border towns, including Kiryat Shmona, in response to a barrage of at least 25 rockets launched by Hezbollah from Lebanon.
Families of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza plunged into mourning on Saturday, the Jewish sabbath, after Israel said its troops had found the body of a second woman held hostage by Hamas.
Syria says it shot down Israeli missiles fired from the Israel-controlled Golan Heights towards the surroundings of the capital, Damascus, early Friday.
Israel’s army confirmed Friday that its troops in Gaza found the body of hostage Yehudit Weiss, a 65-year-old woman abducted by Hamas on October 7.
According to the most recent Israel Channel 12 poll, the coalition led by Benjamin Netanyahu, which secured 64 seats in last November’s elections, would plummet to just 45 seats in the 120-member Knesset if elections were held today. Conversely, the anti-Netanyahu “change” parties would surge to 70 seats, with the Hadash-Taal alliance claiming the remaining five.
The Israel Defense Force (IDF) carried out two significant airstrikes targeting Hamas’ underground infrastructure in the Gaza Strip this week, according to IDF spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari.
A new survey shows that the percentage of Arab Israelis who feel they are part of the Jewish state and its problems has skyrocketed since the Oct. 7 surprise brutal attack on Israeli civilians by the Hamas Palestinian terror group, the Times of Israel (TOI) reports. Hamas murdered around 1,200 mostly civilian Israelis in the Oct. 7 disaster, including around 70 Arab Israelis.
Police investigators in Israel are building rape cases against Gaza terrorists who joined in the surprise attack launched by Hamas against Israeli civilians on October 7, the Times of Israel (TOI) reports. The Palestinians murdered at least 1,200 mostly civilian Israelis and abducted around 240 others, amid an attack which included the torture of children, the rape of women, and the burning down of kibbutzim in southern Israel.
Israel’s army blew up Hamas’s parliament building in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, two days after soldiers in the Golani Unit pictures themselves holding Israeli flags there, footage obtained by Worthy News showed.
The troubled Gaza enclave appeared to be without a functioning government on Wednesday after Israeli forces captured several governmental sites in the territory, footage obtained by Worthy News confirmed.
The Pentagon quietly boosts military aid to Israel, delivering military armaments on a “near-daily basis”, according to Bloomberg News.