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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”.

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.

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

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.

An anti-Israel, pro-terror march in Manhattan on Labor Day brought 5,000 demonstrators into the street, chanting radical slogans, setting off smoke bombs, and overwhelming police who tried to stop the illegal demonstration.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres responded to the murder of American and Israeli hostages by failing to name or condemn Hamas.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded to criticism Monday from President Joe Biden by saying that pressuring Israel, in the wake of Hamas’s murder of six hostages, will only encourage Hamas to kill more hostages.

U.S. President Joe Biden told reporters Monday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not doing enough to reach a deal with Hamas on the release of hostages — without evidence and in defiance of his own administration.

Dozens of people gathered at Congregation Or Torah on Monday morning to watch the livestream of the funeral of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, the American-Israeli who was murdered by Hamas along with six other hostages last week.

Israel is facing a general strike on Monday as the national labor union federation, the Histadrut, called on workers to stay home and to protest in favor of a hostage deal following Hamas’s cold-blooded murder of six hostages last week.

Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin ordered the “flags to be flown at half-staff” to honor Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, an American-Israeli hostage who was among the six bodies found dead in a tunnel underneath Gaza.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic Party’s vice presidential nominee, walked away Sunday after being asked by a reporter what his “reaction” was to the news that the bodies of six Israeli hostages had been discovered in a Hamas tunnel

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) responded to the news that the bodies of six hostages were discovered in a tunnel underneath Gaza, saying his “support for Israel is unbreakable.”

Former President Donald Trump blamed “Comrade Kamala Harris” for what he called the “Hostage Crisis in Israel” on Sunday, in the wake of the murder of American-Israeli hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin by Hamas.

Mainstream media outlets, including CNN, NBC, and USA Today, are facing intense backlash for what have been called misleading and “vile” headlines about the brutal murder of six hostages held by Hamas in Gaza.

President Joe Biden issued a statement Saturday evening that he had “worked tirelessly” to secure the release of Hersh Goldberg-Polin and other murdered hostages, and claimed he would “keep working around the clock for a deal.”

Prime Minister Keir Starmer doubled down on his demand that Israel accept a ceasefire after six hostages held by Islamist Hamas terrorists were found dead.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a statement on Sunday in response to Hamas’s murder of six Israeli hostages, whose bodies were discovered in a tunnel in Gaza: “Whoever murders hostages does not want a deal.”

The six Israeli hostages whose bodies were found in a Hamas tunnel underneath Gaza Saturday had been shot in the head in the last 48 hours, according to autopsy reports Sunday.

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris issued statements Saturday night on the murder of American-Israeli hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, that omitted the fact that Goldberg-Polin was also an Israeli citizen.

The six hostages whose bodies were found Saturday in a tunnel underneath Gaza — including American-Israeli Hersh Goldberg-Polin — were discovered in Rafah, the city that Vice President Kamala Harris told Israel not to enter.

President Joe Biden responded to the news that Hersh Goldberg-Polin was one of the bodies that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) had discovered in Gaza, and stated “Hamas leaders will pay for these crimes.”

Qaid Farhan al-Qadi, 52, the Bedouin Israeli Arab Muslim hostage whom Israeli soldiers rescued from a Hamas tunnel in Gaza on Tuesday, thanked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the “sacred” work the soldiers had done.

Israel announced Tuesday that it had rescued a Bedouin Israeli Arab Muslim hostage, Qaid Farhan al-Qadi, 52, from a Hamas tunnel in Gaza in a special operation by Israel’s Shayetet 13, the Israeli equivalent of the U.S. Navy SEALs.