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In Scotland, pro-Palestinian activists defaced the clubhouse at the Trump Turnberry resort.
Tehran “cannot have a nuclear weapon,” the U.S. president said.
Adam Boehler, Donald Trump’s envoy for hostage affairs, met overnight with representatives of Hamas as well as officials from Egypt and Qatar.
Donald Trump is indifferent to the formalities involved in reaching a hostage deal—as long as the price isn’t excessive, protocol does not concern him.
The ultimatum to release the remaining hostages in Gaza or face severe consequences was delivered after an Oval Office meeting with freed captives.
“He’s tired of watching videos of emaciated hostages being released,” the secretary of state said of the ultimatum for the terrorists to free the captives.
Freed Israeli hostages tell Trump they didn’t think they’d be freed before his return to White House
“You were our hope, and now you’re the hope of the rest of the hostages,” Naama Levy said.
Despite Israeli and global media reports that such a meeting had been scheduled, the White House says no get-together was planned.
The U.S. secretary of state’s comments ran for 56 words, some 75% shorter than his predecessor’s.
Sharabi expressed the urgency of returning the remaining captives in Gaza.
Calling the president Israel’s greatest ally in the White House, Netanyahu expressed gratitude for Trump’s Gaza plan, releasing withheld munitions and pressuring Hamas to release hostages.
Despite the opportunities showered on the Jewish state by the U.S. president, Israel seems to be mired, more than ever, in defeatism and political inertia.
