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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., answers questions from reporters outside the Senate chamber, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023. President Joe Biden's nearly $106 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel and other needs is sitting idle in Congress as Republicans are insisting on U.S.-Mexico border policy provisions in exchange for any new U.S. dollars for Ukraine in its fight against Russia. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Schumer denounces rise in antisemitism as ‘five-alarm fire that must be extinguished’

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Live updates | Hamas frees 10 Israeli women and children, 4 Thai nationals

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

This handout photo provided by GPO shows Gabriela and Mia Leimberg, rear, talking with family from a meeting point in Israeli territory after being released by Hamas, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023. (GPO/Handout via AP)

Hamas releases 12 more hostages as fragile cease-fire holds — for now

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Congressional candidate Mike Lawler delivers a speech to supporters before knowing the final results during an election night party, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2022, in Pearl River, N.Y. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez) **FILE**

Lawmakers overwhelmingly vote to recognize Israel’s right to exist, call for Hamas to free hostages

By Alex Miller - The Washington Times

Israeli protesters call for the release of the hostages held in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas militant group, in Tel Aviv, on Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israel says 12 more hostages have been freed by Hamas and have arrived in Egypt

By Wafaa Shurafa, Jack Jeffery and Lee Keath - Associated Press

Israeli soldiers work on a tank at an army staging area near Israel's border with Gaza, southern Israel, Monday, Nov. 27, 2023. on the fourth day of a temporary cease-fire between Israel and Hamas. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Israel says Hamas violating cease-fire by attacking IDF troops in Gaza

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Israel trading Hamas terrorists for hostages illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

Trading terrorists for hostages: Israel agrees to a bad deal for a good reason

By Clifford D. May

Released Palestinian prisoner Muhammad Abu Al-Humus, 17, hugs his mother after arriving home in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya, Tuesday Nov. 28, 2023. Eleven Israeli women and children, freed by Hamas, entered Israel Monday night in the fourth swap under the original four-day truce, which began Friday and had been due to run out. Qatar said Israel was to release 33 Palestinians from its prisons, mostly teenagers. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Live updates | Israel releases 30 prisoners after Hamas frees 12 hostages in extended truce deal

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks to reporters on Nov. 26, 2023, in Nantucket, Mass. The Biden administration has told Israel that it must operate with far greater precision in southern Gaza if it renews a ground campaign aimed at eradicating the Hamas militant group. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough, File)

U.S. tells Israel any ground campaign in southern Gaza must limit further civilian displacement

By Aamer Madhani and Zeke Miller - Associated Press

A German police officer stands guard in front of the synagogue in Frankfurt, Germany, early Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023. A group tracking antisemitism in Germany said Tuesday that it documented a drastic increase of antisemitic incidents in the country in the month after Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7. The RIAS group said, it recorded 994 incidents, which is an average of 29 incidents per day and an increase of 320% compared to the same time period in 2022. The group looked at the time period from Oct. 7 to Nov. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

Antisemitic incidents in Germany rose by 320% after Hamas attacked Israel, a monitoring group says

By Kirsten Grieshaber - Associated Press

Supporters of Israel walk past cutout cardboard effigies, representing Israeli hostages, during a protest outside Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023. Relatives and a friend of Israelis kidnapped and killed by Hamas visited Australia's Parliament House on Tuesday, sharing personal stories to lobby for international support for all hostages to be freed and to support Israel's war effort.(Mick Tsikas/AAP Image via AP)

Relatives and a friend of Israelis kidnapped and killed by Hamas visit Australia’s Parliament House

By Rod McGuirk - Associated Press

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg talks to journalists ahead of a meeting of NATO foreign ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023. NATO foreign ministers on Tuesday begin a two-day meeting in which the alliance will reaffirm its support for Ukraine's defense against Russia's invasion, explore ways of easing tensions between Kosovo and Serbia and look at preparations for NATO's 75th anniversary next year. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

NATO’s Stoltenberg: Israel-Hamas war in Gaza won’t prevent alliance from being committed to Ukraine

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Palestinians flee south on the third day of a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas at Salah al-Din road in central Gaza Strip on Sunday, Nov. 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

More hostages freed as Israel, Hamas extend cease-fire for two more days

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

A woman speaks against the City Council resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza, Monday, Nov. 27, 2023, in Oakland, Calif. (AP Photo/D. Ross Cameron)

Calls for cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war roil city councils from California to Michigan

By Olga R. Rodriguez and Robert Jablon - Associated Press

Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad al-Malki flashes a victory sign in Barcelona, Spain, Monday, Nov. 27, 2023. Delegations from the European Union member states and from Middle East and northern Africa countries are meeting Monday in Barcelona, Spain, to discuss the crisis in Gaza where a fragile pause in fighting is set to expire. Forty-two delegations will gather at the Union for the Mediterranean event with many represented by their foreign ministers. Israel is not attending. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Palestinian diplomat appeals for Gaza truce to be extended as EU and Arab nations meet in Spain

By Joseph Wilson - Associated Press

A group of Israelis celebrate as a helicopter carrying hostages released from the Gaza Strip lands at the helipad of the Schneider Children's Medical Center in Petah Tikva, Israel, Sunday Nov. 26, 2023. The cease-fire between Israel and Hamas was back on track Sunday as the militants freed 17 more hostages, including 14 Israelis and the first American, in exchange for 39 Palestinian prisoners in a third set of releases under a four-day truce. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Live updates | Israel confirms release of 11 hostages by Hamas on fourth day of truce

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Qatar's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani listens to a question with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Doha, Qatar, Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. Qatar is the go-to mediator in the Israel-Hamas war. On Saturday, Nov. 25, 2023, a Qatari jet landed at Israel's Ben-Gurion International Airport with an urgent task: save the cease-fire deal between Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool, File)

Qatar is the go-to mediator in the Mideast war. Its unprecedented Tel Aviv trip saved a shaky truce

By Isabel Debre - Associated Press

This handout photo provided by the Israel Prime Minister Office shows Yahel Shoham, 3 years old, upon her arrival in Israel after being freed. Yahel was one of the 13 Israeli hostages that Hamas released late Saturday, Nov. 25, 2023, in the second round of swaps under a cease-fire deal. (Israel Prime Minister Office/Handout via AP)

Israel and Hamas look open to extending truce on its final day, with one more hostage swap planned

By Tia Goldenberg and Samy Magdy - Associated Press

Humanitarian aid trucks arrive in Rafah, Gaza Strip, on Monday, Nov. 27, 2023, on the fourth day of the temporary ceasefire between Hamas and Israel (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)

Israel and Hamas agree to extend cease-fire for two more days, Qataris report

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar speaks at the British-Irish Council to condemn the violence in Dublin City Centre on Thursday night, at Dublin Castle, Friday Nov. 24, 2023. (Gráinne Ní Aodha/PA via AP)

Israel rips Irish PM for calling 9-year-old ‘lost,’ not kidnapped by terrorists

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times