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Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a surprise visit Tuesday to central Gaza to send a message: that Hamas will not return to power in the territory, and that there will be a heavy price to pay for any harm to hostages.

Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter, and musician John Ondrasik performed at a pro-Israel event at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, on Monday — defying the anti-Israel protest that has rocked the Ivy League campus.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is offering millions of dollars, plus safe passage out of Gaza, for any Palestinians who free Israeli hostages that they are holding captive.

The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is the target of an investigation into alleged leaks regarding hostage negotiations, according to court documents unsealed in Israel on Friday.

Grammy-nominated musician John Ondrasik, also known as “Five for Fighting,” released a new song on Tuesday, “Song for the Hostages,” and launched a yellow ribbon campaign to renew awareness about the 101 Israelis still in captivity.

Israel officially observed the anniversary of the October 7, 2023, terror attacks on Sunday, October 27 — in accord with the Hebrew calendar — as it achieved success on every front in the subsequent war except one: the hostages.

Hamas’s slain leader and October 7 massacre mastermind Yahya Sinwar reportedly urged his negotiators to reject a hostage deal, pointing to the Biden-Harris administration’s increasing pressure on Israel over Gaza as strengthening his terror group’s position while undermining the Jewish state’s.

Iranian authorities unveiled a horrific mural in Tehran featuring blood-splattered photos of the Israeli civilians abducted by Hamas.

Israel reiterated a new offer Monday made last week by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week: Hamas terrorists who release their Israeli hostages will be allowed to live; those who do not will be hunted down and killed.

“No place on earth” is safe for Hamas leaders — “not even their jacuzzi in Qatar,” according to an Israeli official, who said the collapse of Hamas’ leadership following Yahya Sinwar’s death has created a “real opportunity” to free hostages, as he slammed skeptics of Israel’s military strategy, saying they can now see how terrorist groups can be annihilated, much like the West defeated tyranny in World War II.

The U.S., Israel, and the world are “better” and “safer” without Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, according to Israeli Knesset Member Simcha Rothman who criticized the Biden-Harris administration for delaying Israel’s entry into Rafah, arguing that if the terror chief had been eliminated five months earlier, the suffering in Gaza could have been reduced and hostages might already be home, as he urged for a greater respect toward Israel’s strategy.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday evening that Hamas terrorists who freed Israeli hostages would be allowed to live, but that those who sought to harm them would be hunted down and killed. He added that the war in Gaza would end if the hostages were freed and Hamas terrorists laid down their weapons.

Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant had a clear message on Thursday for Hamas terrorists in the wake of the killing of their leader, Yayha Sinwar: release the hostages, lay down your arms, come out into the open, and surrender.

American-Israeli hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who was found dead in August along with five other hostages in a tunnel in Gaza, was likely one of the hostages Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar had kept as human shields, Israel’s Army Radio reported Thursday.

The official daily newspaper of the Palestinian Authority, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, recently published a column urging Hamas to release all of its Israeli hostages unconditionally as a way to bring fighting in Gaza and Lebanon to an end.

On Monday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) stated that “We were misled” early into the conflict about Hamas’ willingness to negotiate, because “they seemed like they could negotiate,” “But they don’t care. They do not

British government again told Israel it wants a ceasefire in the Middle East, as the world remembers the October 7th terror attack massacre.

Sir Keir Starmer’s first speech as prime minister to the Labour Party conference was marred by an apparent slip of the tongue as the UK leader appeared to call the hostages held by Hamas terrorists in Gaza “sausages”.

New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens has been released from captivity by rebels in Indonesia’s restive Papua region and is in good health despite the 19-month ordeal, Indonesian and New Zealand authorities said Saturday.

Two Honduran illegal migrants living in New Mexico have been charged for allegedly conspiring to kidnap other migrants to extort their families for ransom, the U.S. ​​Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California said Monday.

Israel has made a new hostage deal offer to Hamas leaders: free all 101 remaining hostages, and we will let you live.

Hamas’s 24 battalions have been almost completely “shattered,” and the terror organization has been reduced to a “guerrilla” force, according to Israeli government spokesman David Mencer in a media briefing on Thursday.

Israel revealed a new offer Tuesday in the elusive search for a hostage deal: it will allow Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar to leave Gaza safely if he agrees to release all of the remaining Israeli hostages.

White House national security spokesman John Kirby told reporters in a press briefing Monday that “Hamas is the main obstacle” to a hostage deal that would lead to a ceasefire — despite the administration’s pressure on Israel.

Massive protests against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the wake of the news of the murder of six hostages by Hamas faded by the end of the week in Israel — though weekly protests will continue on a smaller scale.

On Thursday’s broadcast of “CNN This Morning,” Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) argued that the primary pressure to achieve a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas conflict has to be put on Hamas and that Hamas “is not an organization that can be

The family of murdered American-Israeli hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin has released a Hamas propaganda video filmed by the terrorists before they executed the 23-year-old last week in cold blood as Israeli soldiers approached.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of “CNN This Morning,” Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) stated that humanitarian aid for Gaza approved in the foreign aid bill passed by Congress is going into Gaza and wondered why the hostages held by Hamas aren’t being

The six Israeli hostages whose bodies were found Saturday had been murdered by Hamas in a tunnel in Rafah, in Gaza, underneath a children’s room, with a tunnel shaft surrounded by stuffed animals and Disney cartoons.

Israeli hostage Eden Yerushalmi, 24, was found to weigh only 36 kilograms — 79 pounds — at the time of her death, having been starved by Hamas terrorists before being murdered last week, according to Israel’s Channel 12 news.

Bret Stephens, a columnist for the New York Times who is a frequent critic of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, says that the Israeli leader is right that a hostage deal requiring a withdrawal from the Gaza border is a “poison pill.”

On Tuesday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “The Hill,” Rep. John Garamendi (D-CA) said that 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris was “very correct” to urge Israel to avoid a major military operation in Rafah, where the six hostages killed

The Biden-Harris administration said Tuesday that it opposed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to hold onto the Gaza-Egypt border — known as the Philadelphi Corridor — to ensure weapons cannot be smuggled into Gaza.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Israel’s Ambassador to the U.N. Danny Danon responded to President Joe Biden criticizing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by alleging Netanyahu hasn’t done enough to get a ceasefire by

Hundreds of Americans gathered at Los Angeles’ Nova exhibit over the past 48-hours to pay their respects to six of the Israeli hostages kidnapped by Hamas terrorists last year and brutally murdered Sunday in Gaza.

Hamas terrorists filmed the six Israeli hostages before executing them last week — a gruesome reminder of the tactics of psychological warfare once used by ISIS.