Marco Rubio discusses Iran, Gaza hostages with Netanyahu • France claims hostages in Gaza received medical supplies sent last year

"It is striking that Israel was not mentioned in the president's inauguration speech," a senior Hamas official told Newsweek.

Israel wants to annex the occupied West Bank and further weaken Iran, but Trump's other priorities may hold those back

A leader of an Israeli activist organization that was accused of disrupting the flow of aid into Gaza and subsequently sanctioned by the Biden Administration expressed her relief Tuesday that President Donald Trump had rescinded the policy.

Donald Trump jumped to claim credit for brokering the ceasefire moments after it was announced on Wednesday, despite the fact that he was not in office for the duration of the conflict. But his instinct may not be far off: A diplomat briefed on the negotiations credited their sudden progress to the incoming forty-seventh president, reported

Fighters from the Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, control the crowd while Red Cross vehicles come to collect Israeli hostages to be released under a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, in Gaza City, Jan. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Abed Hajjar, File)

On Monday evening, just hours after Donald Trump’s inauguration, the Senate passed the Laken Riley Act, an extreme bill that would allow for the deportation and detention of any undocumented immigrant merely suspected of a nonviolent crime. And they did it with the help of 12 Democrats.

President-elect Donald Trump has described a possible ceasefire between Israel and Hamas as being "very close," as the Palestinian militant group has accepted a draft agreement for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and the release of dozens of hostages,

Israeli forces have killed two Palestinian militants who carried out a deadly attack on a bus in the West Bank earlier this month

The violence comes as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces domestic pressure from his far-right allies after agreeing to the truce and hostage-prisoner exchange with Hamas.