Tag: Gaza Strip
Captive’s father denies report relatives urging unilateral Hamas deal
Jonathan Dekel-Chen, the father of U.S.-Israeli captive Sagui Dekel-Chen, is denying a report in NBC News on Wednesday that families of Americans held hostage by Hamas in Gaza are urging the White House to cut a unilateral...
Has Hamas partially restored capabilities in northern Gaza?
According to a report published by Israel’s Channel 12 News on Tuesday, Israeli security officials have identified disturbing signs of renewed Hamas activity in the northern Gaza Strip. This resurgence, characterized by the recruitment of approximately...
Netanyahu suggests Israel is open to possible withdrawal from Gaza-Egypt border
Jerusalem might consider a withdrawal of troops from the Gaza-Egypt border as part of a hostage deal with Hamas if a viable alternative can be found to prevent the terror group from rearming itself...
White House: Murder of six hostages demonstrates Hamas’s evil, need for hostage deal
Hamas’s murder of six hostages, including U.S. citizen Hersh Goldberg-Polin, makes a ceasefire-for-hostages deal more urgent, the White House said Tuesday.
John Kirby, the White House national security communications advisor, told reporters that Hamas leaders...
Netanyahu to Gantz: Those who don’t help war effort ‘would do well not to...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hit back at National Unity Party chair Benny Gantz on Tuesday night after the former War Cabinet member, who returned to the opposition in June, accused him of putting...
This failure will not define us
Our hearts hurt. Our pain is real. It feels like failure.
For 330 days, Hersh Goldberg-Polin languished in the dark. For 330 days, he fought back against despair and kept striving for life. For 330...
Netanyahu: IDF control of Gaza-Egypt border ‘determines our future’
The Israel Defense Forces will stay on Gaza’s border with Egypt to prevent Hamas from rebuilding its strength by smuggling in arms, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday night. He also vowed to...
Accused of neglecting the hostages, Biden blames Netanyahu
U.S. President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and senior advisers met in the White House Situation Room on Monday, a U.S. federal holiday, to discuss “next steps in the ongoing effort to secure...
After Hamas kills hostages, Biden pressures Netanyahu on truce deal
U.S. President Joe Biden accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday of not doing enough to secure a ceasefire-for-hostages-and-terrorists-release deal with Hamas, two weeks after Jerusalem accepted the latest proposals put forward by...
Gaza hostage families to government: Destroy Hamas!
Members of the Gvura Forum converged on the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem on Monday to protest against a general strike called by the Histadrut labor federation following the IDF’s recovery over the weekend of six...