Since US President Donald Trump’s visit to Israel, a series of senior American officials have arrived in the country to bolster the ceasefire deal. The US monitoring operation, established with the support of the IDF, began amid renewed violence in Gaza and ongoing tensions surrounding the exchange of Israeli hostages and Palestinian terrorists.
Turkish Cypriot vote revives prospects for Cyprus reunification, potentially reshaping East Med energy ties and softening Ankara’s regional posture toward Jerusalem.
The USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier and its strike group are being transferred to the US Southern Command and will join the large American force already stationed in the region. Since September, the US military has been carrying out strikes against vessels it has identified as engaged in drug smuggling.
Over the past two years, Dani Miran became one of the most prominent voices in the fight to bring the hostages home. After miraculously being reunited with his son Omri against all odds, he opens up about the ordeal, the accusations leveled at him (“I was accused of treason”), and the heartbreaking conversations with his granddaughter (“She asked the girls in her kindergarten to go with her to Gaza to get her father”).
After three days without deceased hostages being transferred to Israel, Hamas may hand over two of the remaining 13 still held in captivity this evening.
