Israeli Foreign Policy
The Israeli premier declined “due to the timing being too close to the start of the holiday” of Simchat Torah, his office said.
“Even those who believe we were forced to sign this agreement should not celebrate it,” Likud’s Amit Halevi said.
U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters above Air Force One, en route to Israel, that he believes the assurances are “going to be held very strongly.”
“People are ready for some kind of promise of an agreement to feel hopeful and even jubilant,” Ross Baker, a distinguished professor emeritus at Rutgers, told JNS.
The humanitarian coordinator for the United Nations would only say that the global body will work “as one U.N. family.”
A Trump administration official told JNS that the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation “was never meant to be around forever.”
The two leaders agreed to “continue working in close cooperation.”
The Trump administration appeared to correct or clarify what two senior U.S. officials told reporters on a call.
“We have the hostages for the most part,” the U.S. president said. “The situation with the bodies, they say 28, some are going to be a little bit hard to find.”
“While not every issue has been resolved, Israel and Hamas have taken the first and needed step towards peace,” stated Sen. Tammy Baldwin.
Faith-based show of support on the second anniversary of the Oct. 7 Hamas onslaught.
“From the beginning, I made it clear: we will not rest until all our hostages return and all our goals are achieved,” said the Israeli premier.
