Residents of a tent camp in the Gaza Strip inspected the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike as a ceasefire holds with the Hezbollah terrorist group in Lebanon. Meanwhile, the brother of a Hamas hostage addressed the United Nations, calling for action to free those still held in Gaza.
U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan was in Israel on Thursday, seeking to forge a ceasefire and hostage deal. Sullivan said he believes a deal may be close as Israel signaled it was ready, while there are signs of movement from the Hamas terrorist group.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel’s military has taken over a buffer zone in the Golan Heights that was established decades ago, after Syrian opposition fighters ended the rule of President Bashar al-Assad’s decades-long reign. In a statement released by video on Sunday morning, Netanyahu said that the agreement, hashed out in 1974 […]
JERUSALEM—Israel unleashed its largest wave of airstrikes across Lebanon since agreeing to a ceasefire with Hezbollah last week, killing at least 11 people on Monday after the Lebanese terrorist group fired a volley of projectiles as a warning over what it said were Israeli truce violations. The projectiles were apparently the first time that Hezbollah […]
An American-Israeli soldier has been confirmed dead in the Gaza Strip. The IDF announced on Monday that 21-year-old Omer Neutra was killed during the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attack on Israel. NTD sat down with Liz Hirsh Naftali, whose 4-year-old niece Avigail Idan was the first American hostage to be released from Hamas captivity.
President-elect Donald Trump threatened severe consequences if hostages held in the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, 2023, are not released by the time he takes office on Jan. 20 next year. “Everybody is talking about the hostages who are being held so violently, inhumanely, and against the will of the entire World, in the Middle […]
An American who was an Israeli military member is dead, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Dec. 2. Omer Neutra “was killed in battle on Oct. 7 and his body has been held hostage in Gaza since,” the IDF stated on social media platform X. Neutra had served as a platoon commander in Israel’s […]
Thousands of residents of towns and villages in southern Lebanon have started returning to their homes as the cease-fire between Israel and the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah took effect. The cease-fire came into effect at 4 a.m. local time on Nov. 27 (9 p.m. ET on Nov. 26) and within hours hundreds of cars were […]
WASHINGTON—President Joe Biden announced on Nov. 26 that the governments of Israel and Lebanon have agreed to a U.S.-brokered cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hezbollah. “Today, I have some good news to report from the Middle East,” Biden said. “Just spoke with the prime minister of Israel and Lebanon. I’m pleased to announce that the […]
Israel and Hezbollah have commenced a cease-fire that ends more than a year of cross-border air and rocket attacks and two months of Israel’s ground war to drive the Hezbollah terrorist group away from Israel’s northern frontier. The cease-fire came into effect at 4 a.m. local time on Nov. 27 (9 p.m. ET on Nov. […]
Victoria Coates discussed with NTD’s Steve Lance a potential ceasefire deal between Israel and Hezbollah and Russia’s escalation in the Ukraine War. Coates is a former deputy national security adviser to President Donald Trump and vice president of the Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at the Heritage Foundation.
A cease-fire agreement to halt the fighting between Israel and the Hezbollah terrorist group is nearly final, according to Michael Herzog, Israel’s ambassador to the United States. “We are close to a deal,” Herzog said on Monday in an interview with Israel’s Army Radio, adding that there were still points that needed to be addressed. […]
The United States has condemned the International Criminal Court (ICC) over its issuance of arrest warrants on Nov. 21 for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant regarding their actions in the conflict between Israel and Hamas. “The United States fundamentally rejects the Court’s decision to issue arrest warrants for […]
Nations around the world reacted to the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) issuing an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for war crimes, but one nation stood out in its reaction. Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban invited Netanyahu to Hungary on Nov. 22, saying the arrest warrant would “not be observed.” Orban, in comments […]
The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague has issued warrants for the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and its former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. The court has also issued a warrant for Hamas leader Mohammed Diab Ibrahim Al-Masri, who is sometimes known as Mohammed Deif. The court said the warrants were for […]
The United States vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution that called for an immediate, unconditional cease-fire in Gaza on Nov. 20. The 15-member council voted on the resolution proposed by 10 nonpermanent members, including Algeria, Ecuador, and Japan. The United States was the only member to vote against it, using its veto power as […]
Incoming Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) on Nov. 17 urged the Senate to impose sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICC) if it continued to pursue arrest warrants for Israeli officials over the Israel–Hamas war in Gaza. In June, the House of Representatives passed a bill aimed at imposing sanctions on those involved in […]
BEIRUT—A rare Israeli strike in central Beirut killed the Hezbollah terrorist group’s chief spokesman on Sunday. Mohammed Afif al-Naboulsi was killed in a strike on the Arab socialist Baath party’s office in Beirut, Hezbollah confirmed in a statement. He had been especially visible after all-out war erupted between Israel and Hezbollah in September. Israel’s military […]
