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Yocheved Lifshitz, 85, who was held hostage in Gaza after being abducted during Hamas' bloody Oct. 7 attack on Israel, speaks to members of the press a day after being released by Hamas militants, at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Hamas frees two Israeli women as U.S. advises delaying ground war to allow talks on captives

By Najib Jobain, Samy Magdy and Joseph Krauss - Associated Press

Palestinians look for survivers in buildings destroyed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip in Rafah, Sunday, Oct. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)

Live updates | Israeli warplanes strike targets as US seeks more time to free hostages

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

The scene of a truck bombing on Oct. 22, 1983, at a U.S. Marine base near Beirut Airport that resulted in a huge death toll. Forty years after one of the deadliest attacks against U.S. troops in the Middle East, some warn that Washington could be sliding toward a new conflict in the region. (AP Photo/File)

40 years after Beirut’s deadly Marines bombing, U.S. troops again deploy east of the Mediterranean

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

A boy lights candles in the form of the Star of David in honour of victims of the Hamas attacks during a vigil at the Dizengoff square in central Tel Aviv, Israel, on Wednesday, Oct 18, 2023.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Higher Ground: Antisemitism on the rise, ‘The Chosen’ Season 4 to theaters and more top headlines

By Mark A. Kellner and Billy Hallowell - The Washington Times

Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Monday, Oct. 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Pentagon rushes defenses and advisers to Middle East as Israel’s ground assault in Gaza looms

By Tara Copp and Aamer Madhani - Associated Press

Left's Educational Brain Washing Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Hamas exposes educated Americans’ love of terrorism

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Palestinians look for survivors of the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip in Rafah on Monday, Oct. 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)

AOC says cease-fire with Hamas in charge is needed to save civilian lives

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

In this Sept. 24, 2015, file photo Pope Francis, flanked by then-Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, waves to the crowd on Capitol Hill in Washington as they stand on the Speaker's Balcony on Capitol Hill, after the pope addressed a joint meeting of Congress inside. President Joe Biden is set to meet Pope Francis when he visits the Vatican later this month as part of a five-day swing through Italy and the U.K. for global economic and climate change meetings. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Biden says he and the Pope are ‘on the same page’ about Israel

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Photographs of over one thousand persons killed, missing or abducted in the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7 are displayed on empty seats in an exhibit held under the motto "UNITED AGAINST TERRORISM" in the Smolarz Auditorium at Tel Aviv University, Sunday Oct. 22, 2023, in Tel Aviv. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Israel strikes across Gaza after allowing another small aid convoy into the besieged enclave

By Wafaa Shurafa, Samy Magdy and Joseph Krauss - Associated Press

From left, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and President Joe Biden listen during a meeting with European Council President Charles Michel and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Friday, Oct. 20, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Secretary of State Blinken: Biden administration doesn’t know why Hamas released two U.S. hostages

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

A Palestinian girl reacts as a child is carried from the rubble of a building after an airstrike in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Live updates | Israel says it’s stepping up attacks on the Gaza Strip

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower sits pier side at Naval Station Norfolk in Norfolk, Va., Wednesday, April 27, 2016. The Biden administration sent the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower carrier strike group Friday, Oct. 13, 2023, to the Eastern Mediterranean to support Israel. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

U.S. sends carrier strike group, missile defense system to Middle East

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Republican presidential candidate and former Vice President Mike Pence speaks, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023, during an Associated Press 2024 GOP Presidential Candidates Conversations on National Security and Foreign Policy event, held in partnership with Georgetown University's Institute of Politics and Public Service, at Georgetown University in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Pence: U.S. boots should be on the ground in Gaza to free American hostages

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, meet with victims' relatives and first responders who were directly affected by the Hamas attacks, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023, in Tel Aviv. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

U.S. is ready to respond if American personnel targeted in Israel-Hamas war: Austin, Blinken say

By Darlene Superville - Associated Press

Palestinians rescue a woman after an Israeli airstrike on buildings of the Abu Asad family in Deir el-Balah, southern Gaza Strip, Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Hassan Eslaiah)

Israel strikes Gaza, Syria and West Bank as war against Hamas threatens to ignite other fronts

By Najib Jobain, Samy Magdy and Ravi Nessman - Associated Press

Illustration on Gazans and Hamas by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Gazans aren’t innocent; they are the swamp Hamas swims in

By Don Feder

Palestinians inspect the damage after an Israeli strike hit a compound beneath a mosque in Jenin refugee camp, West Bank, Sunday, Oct. 22, 2023. The Israeli army said it was being used by militants planning an imminent attack. The Palestinian Ministry of health said two people were killed. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Escalation of Middle East war appears inevitable; more U.S. troops get ‘prepare to deploy’ orders

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Palestinian mourners carry the body of Oday Mansour, 17, during his funeral in the West Bank village of Kafr Qallil, Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023. Mansour was killed in clashes with Israeli forces Friday during a protest in support of the Gaza Strip, at a military checkpoint in the flash point town of Hawara, West Bank. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Palestinian death toll in West Bank surges as Israel pursues militants following Hamas rampage

By Amy Teibel - Associated Press

Trucks with humanitarian aid for the 'Gaza Strip enter from Egypt in Rafah on Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Aid trucks enter Gaza as Arab leaders decry ‘injustice’ of Israeli strikes

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Palestinians celebrate by a burning Israeli tank at the border fence of the Gaza Strip on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023. The militant Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip carried out an unprecedented, multi-front attack on Israel at daybreak Saturday, firing thousands of rockets as dozens of Hamas fighters infiltrated the heavily fortified border in several locations by air, land, and sea and catching the country off-guard on a major holiday. (AP Photo)

In killing Israelis, Hamas may have also targeted Saudi diplomatic deal

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times