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Roughly a dozen delegates from the pro-Palestinian “Uncommitted” movement staged a sit-in outside the Democratic National Convention, demanding a speaking slot — but would not speak to Breitbart News.

Judy Woodruff of PBS Newshour retracted claim she made about Trump telling Netanyahu not to make a hostage deal. She also apologized.

The “Uncommitted” movement, which has threatened to withhold votes from Vice President Kamala Harris unless she promises to end U.S. support for Israel, is furious at Democrats for allowing Israeli speakers but not Palestinians.

Democrats rose to their feet to honor the parents of hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin. But the convention downplayed his Israeli identity.

Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday to pressure the Israeli government to yield to Hamas’s demands for a hostage deal.

CHICAGO, Illinois — A pro-Israel group that was denied a permit to march during the Democratic National Convention gathered in a makeshift “Hostage Square” in the West Loop on Tuesday to make their voices heard. The original “Hostage Square” is

Israeli forces conducted a daring and difficult operation in the tunnels under Khan Yunis, in Gaza, on Monday night to retrieve the bodies of six hostages who died in Hamas captivity.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that pressure — from the U.S. and from domestic opposition — for a hostage deal needs to be on Hamas, not the Israeli government, due to the terror group’s ongoing obstinacy.

Hamas has rejected hostage talks that were set for this week, hours after CNN published a poorly-sourced article claiming that the terrorist group was serious about a deal but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was not.

A significant majority of U.S. voters continue to show strong support for the Jewish State over Hamas, with most demanding the removal of the Islamic terrorist organization from Gaza and advocating for conditional ceasefires based on key concessions, according to a Harvard CAPS / Harris poll.

Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign issued a statement Wednesday evening to walk back a statement she made earlier in which she said she was open to talking about an arms embargo on Israel in exchange for votes in Michigan.

Police in Israel have begun a probe into former Prime Minister Ehud Barak into incitement after he called on Israelis to engage in nationwide civil disobedience to force the government out of office this fall — in the middle of a war.

The United Nations (UN) has admitted that nine employees of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) may have participated in the Hamas terror attack of October 7.

Russia became more interested in a prisoner swap with the United States after it became clear that Donald Trump could return to the White House, according to the Wall Street Journal, whose reporter, Evan Gerskovich, was freed.

Ayelet Samerano, whose 21-year-old son was murdered by Hamas on October 7, and whose body was taken to Gaza, confronted United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) chief Philippe Lazzarini during a speech Thursday.

The New York Times published an analysis Friday in which it claimed that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had “gone rogue” by killing terrorists who had killed Israeli citizens, rather than acquiescing.

The Kremlin said it would consider allowing freed hostage Evan Gershkovich to interview Russian President Vladimir Putin.

President Joe Biden said late Thursday night that the killing of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, Iran, on Wednesday “has not helped” as he urged all sides to move toward a ceasefire that would end the war in Gaza.

President Joe Biden blamed former President Donald Trump for not rescuing hostages whom Russia seized after Biden took office.

President Joe Biden on Thursday hailed the complex prisoner-swap deal with Russia that freed unjustly imprisoned Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan, and two others in exchange for prisoners including Russian assassin Vadim Krasikov as a prodigious “feat of diplomacy.”

Israel marked 300 days on Thursday since the October 7 terror attack by Hamas, noting that over 100 hostages are still in captivity in Gaza, with perhaps half of them still thought to be alive.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Friday with former President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, Florida, exchanging warm handshakes and discussing efforts to free the remaining Israeli hostages still in captivity in Gaza.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Israel Security Agency (ISA) announced Thursday that they had rescued four bodies from Gaza, including the bodies of three captive soldiers and one hostage from Kibbutz Nir Oz.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a stern rebuke Wednesday to left-wing critics who have targeted former hostage Noa Argamani and her father for daring to accompany him on his trip to the United States, as if that meant giving him political support.

Two Israeli hostages were declared Monday to have been murdered in Hamas captivity in Gaza: Alex Dancyg, 75, a Holocaust educator from Kibbutz Nir Oz; and musician Yagev Buchshtav, 35, from Kibbutz Nirim.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump threatened countries and terrorist organizations currently holding American hostages in his speech Thursday at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Two Israeli protesters burst into the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday and demanded the release of the Israeli hostages in Gaza, as Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov was chairing a meeting of the body.

The Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, took on antisemitism and anti-Israel terror in a moving set of speeches on Wednesday night featuring a Harvard student and an American-Israeli hostage family.

Noa Argamani, 25, one of the four Israeli hostages rescued by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in a daring raid last month, will accompany Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on his visit to address Congress next week.

The families of five female Israeli hostages published images taken during their first days in captivity in Gaza after October 7 in an effort to draw attention to their plight. The images of Liri Albag, Karina Ariev, Agam Berger, Daniella

The U.S. Treasury accidentally sanctioned an Israeli man who had nothing to do with a protest movement that President Joe Biden’s administration has been targeting at the behest of radical anti-Israel organizations.

The Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, kicked off Monday with several invocations. One portion of the invocations included a special prayer for the Israeli hostages still being held by Hamas in Gaza.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated Friday that Israel has no intention of withdrawing from the Gaza-Egypt border, known as the Philadelphi corridor, in a hostage deal, despite media reports to the contrary.

The majority of Israelis reject the terms of an emerging deal with the Hamas terrorist organization to release some of the remaining 120 hostages in return for a temporary ceasefire and the release of hundreds of convicted terrorists.

IDF soldiers in Gaza City’s Shejaiya neighborhood discovered and demolished six terror tunnels that included weapons and valuable troves of intelligence.

Israel says that a successful Rafah operation and military pressure in general are leading Hamas to show a greater willingness to compromise and to reach a deal to release Israeli hostages in exchange for a pause in the war in Gaza.