At least 160 newly freed Palestinian prisoners have become terrorist millionaires under the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) long-running “pay-to-slay” program, according to a report by Palestinian Media Watch (PMW).
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud Party are surging in Israeli voter polls following the end of the war in Gaza and the successful return of 20 living hostages.
President Donald Trump issued a stark warning to Hamas on Thursday, declaring that if the terrorist group continues killing in Gaza, the United States "will have no choice but to kill them."
Former Israeli hostage Tal Shoham revealed this week that some of his Hamas captors were not soldiers, but ordinary Palestinians — educators and medical professionals.
Socialist New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is facing backlash after refusing to say Hamas should disarm under President Donald Trump’s ceasefire deal.
Former Vice President Kamala Harris issued a public statement on October 13 acknowledging the reunification of 20 Israeli hostages and the new Gaza ceasefire—but conspicuously avoided mentioning Donald Trump by name. Instead, she credited efforts to “the President and his team,” positioning the deal more as a bipartisan achievement than as Trump’s singular success.
In a dramatic diplomatic gesture, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el‑Sisi presented President Donald Trump with the Order of the Nile, the highest state honor in modern Egypt, during a peace summit in Sharm el‑Sheikh. The award is a nod to Trump’s “significant contributions to promoting peace” and particularly for his role in ending the war in Gaza, according to Sisi’s office.
