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This undated family photo shows Samaher Esmail, a Palestinian-American from Louisiana who is being tried in Israeli military court for incitement, pictured on a family trip to Turkey. Esmail who was beaten, dragged out of her home and detained by Israeli authorities for over three weeks was released on bail Thursday Feb. 29, 2024 to wait out the remainder of her trial in the West Bank, the latest case to draw international attention to the prosecution of an American in Israeli military court. (Family handout via AP)

Palestinian-American woman who faces trial in Israeli military court is released on bail

By Julia Frankel - Associated Press

Israelis visit the site where revelers were killed and kidnapped on Oct. 7 cross-border attack by Hamas militants at the Nova music festival near Kibbitz Reim, southern Israel, Friday, Jan. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Families of Oct. 7 victims sue Reuters, AP reporters, claiming they partook in Hamas atrocities

By Staff - The Washington Times

Palestinians line up for a free meal in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Thursday, Dec. 21, 2023. Israel and Hamas are inching toward a new deal that would free some of the roughly 130 hostages held in the Gaza Strip in exchange for a weeks-long pause in the war, now in its fifth month. A deal would bring some respite to desperate people in Gaza, who have borne a staggering toll in the war, as well as to the anguished families of hostages taken during Hamas' Oct. 7 attack that sparked the war. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair, File)

Palestinian deaths in Gaza pass 30,000 as witnesses say Israeli forces fire on crowd waiting for aid

By Wafaa Shurafa and Kareem Chehayeb - Associated Press

A woman and her children walk past a wall with photographs of hostages who were kidnapped during the Oct. 7 Hamas cross-border attack in Israel in Jerusalem, Israel, Monday, Feb. 26, 2024. Israel and Hamas are inching toward a new deal that would free some of the roughly 130 hostages held in the Gaza Strip in exchange for a weeks-long pause in the war, now in its fifth month. A deal would bring some respite to desperate people in Gaza, who have borne a staggering toll in the war, as well as to the anguished families of hostages taken during Hamas' Oct. 7 attack that sparked the war. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)

Gaza’s Health Ministry says at least 70 killed in strike on Palestinians waiting for aid

Associated Press

Families of hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip gather in Re'im, southern Israel, as they begin their march to Jerusalem calling for the release of hostages, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024. They began the four-day march at the site where hundreds of revelers at the Nova music festival were killed or captured by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Food aid reaches north Gaza for first time in weeks. Israeli hostages’ families push for release

Associated Press

Tourists hold umbrellas against the rain as they walk in Parliament Square next to the the Houses of Parliament in London, Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024. U.K. lawmakers have called for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war. But the move came after dozens of lawmakers walked out of the House of Commons in protest at how the vote was handled on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

The U.K. is stepping up lawmakers’ security as tensions flare over the Israel-Hamas war

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

Israelis stand on tanks during an event for families of reservists outside a military base in southern Israel, Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024. Israel and Hamas are inching toward a new deal that would free some of the roughly 130 hostages held in the Gaza Strip in exchange for a weeks-long pause in the war, now in its fifth month. A deal would bring some respite to desperate people in Gaza, who have borne a staggering toll in the war, as well as to the anguished families of hostages taken during Hamas' Oct. 7 attack that sparked the war. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

A deal between Israel and Hamas appears to be taking shape. What would it look like?

By Samy Magdy and Tia Goldenberg - Associated Press

Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani delivers a speech during a state dinner with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024. Qatar's emir has arrived in France for a two-day state visit as his country plays a key role in ongoing diplomatic efforts to achieve a cease-fire in Gaza and the release of hostages. (Yoan Valat, Pool via AP)

Qatar’s emir speaks of ‘race against time’ to win hostage releases in Gaza diplomatic efforts

By Sylvie Corbet and John Leicester - Associated Press

A woman rides a scooter past a graffiti calling for the return of the hostages kidnapped during the Oct. 7 Hamas cross-border attack in Israel, in Kfar Saba, Israel, Monday, Feb. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Hamas, Israel say Biden out of touch with premature cease-fire talk

By Tom Howell Jr. and David R. Sands - The Washington Times

Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh speaks during a meeting with officials from Western and Arab nations, the United Nations and nongovernmental organizations at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023. Prime Minister Shtayyeh says his government is resigning, in a move that could open the door to U.S.-backed reforms in the Palestinian Authority. (Ludovic Marin/Pool Photo via AP, File)

What would a new Palestinian government in the West Bank mean for the war in Gaza?

By Joseph Krauss - Associated Press

Israeli soldiers run as they carry a stretcher towards a military helicopter during an exercise simulating evacuation of wounded people in northern Israel, near the border with Lebanon, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit) **FILE**

The solution for peace in Gaza is Jesus

By Jonathan Feldstein – Special to Higher Ground

A Palestinian child wounded in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip is brought to Al Najjar hospital in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Live updates | Israeli military presents a plan for a Rafah offensive to the War Cabinet

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Palestinians wait for humanitarian aid on a beachfront in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, Sunday, Feb. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Essa)

Netanyahu: Cease-fire deal would only delay ‘somewhat’ an Israeli military offensive in Rafah

By Tia Goldenberg and Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy - Associated Press

Palestinians look at the destruction after an Israeli strike on residential buildings and a mosque in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Live updates | Hamas leader leaves Egypt after cease-fire talks with officials there

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Palestinians look at the destruction after an Israeli strike on residential buildings and a mosque in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Live updates | Israeli bombings kill over 70 in Gaza, and West Bank shooters kill an Israeli

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

A Palestinian looks at the destruction after an Israeli strike on a residential building in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024. AP Photo/Hatem Ali)

Israeli strikes in Gaza kill 48 as fears mount over humanitarian crisis and West Bank violence

By Wafaa Shurafa and Melanie Lidman - Associated Press

Israeli soldiers drive a tanks near the Gaza Strip border, in southern Israel, Monday, Feb. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Live updates | 2 killed in Gaza where Palestinians were seeking shelter: Doctors Without Borders

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Palestinians line up for a free meal in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Friday, Feb. 16, 2024. The World Food Program said Tuesday it has paused deliveries of food to isolated northern Gaza because of increasing chaos across the territory, hiking fears of potential starvation. A study by the U.N. children's agency warned that one in six children in the north are acutely malnourished. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair, File)

Why isn’t desperately needed aid reaching Palestinians in Gaza?

By Joseph Krauss - Associated Press

Palestinian looks from his house damaged by Israeli airstrikes in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)

U.N. agency says it can’t deliver aid to northern Gaza because of chaos, and famine fears are rising

By Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy - Associated Press

President Joe Biden listens as he and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu participate in an expanded bilateral meeting with Israeli and U.S. government officials, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023, in Tel Aviv. For the second time this month, the Biden administration is bypassing Congress to approve an emergency weapons sale to Israel. The State Department said Friday, Dec. 29, that Secretary of State Antony Blinken had told Congress that he had made a second emergency determination covering a $147.5 million sale for equipment that is needed to make the 155 mm shells that Israel has already purchased function. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Biden’s betrayal of Israel for Michigan votes

By Kelly Sadler - The Washington Times