Trump declined to talk about Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi canceling his meeting at the White House next week over Trump's proposal to "own" Gaza.
With Hamas saying it will release more hostages this weekend, President Donald Trump has yet to weigh in, as he did last week ahead of the planned Saturday hostage release threatening "all hell is going to break out" if all hostages weren't freed by his deadline.
This week, Hamas once again showed why reaching a ceasefire deal was so elusive for so long: the group threatened to stop releasing hostages and to return to war with Israel. To many of us who served in the Biden administration (I helped lead months of ceasefire talks), this did not come as a surprise.
With the first phase of the truce set to expire Saturday, Hamas on Wednesday turned over the bodies of four hostages and Israel released hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.
Even the originator of the fib, Elon Musk, has since denied the whopper. Trump called the issue ‘incenjuary,’ possibly intending to say ‘incendiary’
President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff said on Sunday the US expects the second phase of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal to go forward and that he would visit the Middle East ...
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So far, 25 Israeli hostages and the remains of eight others have been exchanged for nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners.
Hamas said it will release six more hostages on Saturday along with the bodies of two small children and their mother...
Michelle O'Neill and Mary Lou McDonald will boycott the event in light of Donald Trump's suggestion that Palestinians should be relocated from Gaza under his "takeover" plan.