"Let me tell you something: This whole thing is only for one purpose – to just bring the hostages back, and whenever there is an opportunity to just bring the hostages, I think this is where Israel is compromising," Yousef said.
Israel lured out elusive Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr with a mysterious phone call moments before launching the deadly airstrike that would kill him.
Sen. John Fetterman's communications director, Carrie Adams publicly badmouthed her boss's views on Israel and admitted she differs with him over the Mideast conflict.
“In a very constructive meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu today, he confirmed to me that Israel supports the bridging proposal," Blinken told reporters. “The next important step is for Hamas to say ‘yes.’"
A large quarry has been under excavation in at Mount Hotzvim in Jerusalem, exposing more information on the Second Temple time period when Jesus walked the Holy Land.
Speaking before the DNC on Monday night, Biden said the US and Israel were committed to seeking a truce in Gaza and to free the remaining 109 hostages, but noted that "Hamas is now backing off."
Hamas chief and Oct. 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar, who previously claimed that it would be an honor to die fighting Israel, has made his own survival a condition of any cease-fire in Gaza, according to a new report.
“They are showing weakness and just looking for ways to capitulate, while I’m insisting on the interests of the State of Israel and am not prepared to concede to demands that would harm security," he said.
Yahya Sinwar, the new head of Hamas, tossed yet another wrench into Gaza cease-fire talks with an rumored demand for a “don’t kill me” clause in any deal with Israel.
While Israeli and Hezbollah officials claimed the clash, one of the biggest in the history of conflict between the two entities, does not seek to start an all-out war, both agreed that this was just the first exchange of its kind.
"If I were the state of Israel, I would tell the ayatollah if these people do not come home alive — the ones that are left alive — and if we don't get the bodies of the fallen, we're going to blow up your oil refineries," the pol said.