Author: Joel Gehrke, Washington Examiner

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir is “very upset” about a brewing deal to secure the release of scores of hostages seized by Hamas during the Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel. “I am very upset because they’re now talking about some kind of deal,” Ben-Gvir told local press. “I am disturbed because we are…

Israeli officials could face targeted sanctions in response to a surge in violence against Palestinians in the West Bank, U.S. officials have warned. “Visa restrictions are very much on the table as one possible measure that we might implement,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told reporters on Monday. “There could be others.” TRUMP AND SMITH…

A top Chinese Communist Party official said that Israel has flouted the Palestinian rights of “survival and their right of return” to the territory of the Jewish state. “The fundamental reason for the cycle of conflict between Palestine and Israel is that the Palestinian people’s right to statehood and survival and their right of return…

With U.S. and Chinese officials making their final preparations for President Joe Biden’s meeting with Chinese General Secretary Xi Jinping, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen sat down with the communist regime’s top economic official. “We do not seek to decouple our economy from China’s,” Yellen said in San Francisco, where Xi and Biden will attend the…

Israel‘s war in Gaza runs a substantial risk of inspiring more Palestinian civilians to join Hamas, according to President Joe Biden’s top military adviser. “Yes, very much so,” Gen. Charles Q. Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters Thursday before arriving in Japan, according to the Times of Israel. “That’s why when…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s team declared that “the fighting continues” in the Gaza Strip in an apparent rebuff of President Joe Biden’s desire for a sustained humanitarian “pause” in the war against Hamas. “The fighting continues, and there will be no ceasefire without the release of our hostages,” Netanyahu’s office said on Thursday. “Israel…

World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is stoking a “disinformation campaign” that benefits Hamas, a senior Republican lawmaker argued amid a general critique of the United Nations posture toward Israel. “Dr. Tedros has not, in any way, shape, or form, retracted his false statements,” Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) said Wednesday. “Nothing of the sort.…

Israel must not reoccupy the Gaza Strip or annex any Palestinian territory after the war against Hamas, Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned following a meeting with leading democratic powers. “The United States believes key elements should include no forcible displacement of Palestinians from Gaza — not now, not after the war,” Blinken said in…

Israel intends to host Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for a visit to show solidarity in response to the Hamas terrorist attack last month despite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s careful management of ties with Russia. “If President Zelensky comes, he will be welcomed with open arms,” an unnamed Israeli official told the Times of Israel.…

The Israel Defense Forces are “tightening the noose” around Gaza City, according to Israeli officials intent on killing the Hamas leaders who orchestrated the Oct. 7 rampage that started the war. “They have one target: Hamas terrorists in Gaza, their infrastructure, their commanders, bunkers, communications rooms,” Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said Tuesday. “They are…