Hamas is playing games with releasing hostages — just like it has been doing since the war began. Brett McGurk served as deputy assistant to the president and White House coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa from 2021 to 2025.
The immediate past US President, Joe Biden, has expressed delight over the release of Sagui Dekel-Chen and two other Israeli hostages. Hamas had on Saturday released Sagui Dekel-Chen, an Israeli-American,
Brett McGurk defended Biden’s support for Israel, criticized Hamas’s hostage tactics, and praised Trump for calling Hamas’s bluff to secure hostage releases and push for a Gaza without Hamas.
Roman called on on Congress to launch a criminal investigation of federal officials and charity leaders who knowingly dispensed foreign aid to terror-linked organizations.
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Joe Biden told a Jewish gathering that he will ensure that Israel will have “everything it needs” to fight Hamas, a pledge that comes after weeks of tension ...
This week, Hamas once again showed why reaching a ceasefire deal was so elusive for so long: the group threatened to stop releasing hostages and to return to war with Israel. To many of us who served in the Biden administration (I helped lead months of ceasefire talks), this did not come as a surprise.
Thousands of Hamas fighters returned to their respective hideouts during the ceasefire, blending in with civilians who were also making their way back.
Rescission of the order, imposed by President Joe Biden as he struggled with the civilian toll caused by Israel’s war in Gaza, comes as Trump puts his mark on U.S. foreign policy.
President Joe Biden was right to stand firmly by Israel and demand the release of hostages by Hamas. And President Donald Trump is right to do the same.” Recalling the first hostage deal with ...
President Donald Trump’s administration has secured the release of 11 U.S. hostages who were held by foreign governments since taking office less than one month ago.
Donald Trump has followed his controversial comments on Volodymyr Zelensky with ramblings about 'condoms for Hamas' and 'Mozambique medical male circumcision'