President Donald Trump's special envoy to the Middle East is on his way back to the region to press forward on ceasefire and hostage talks after Israelis experienced a grueling week with the return of four hostage bodies and six living hostages.
The terror group Hamas on Saturday released six living hostages in to the custody of the Red Cross, who transfered them to the Israel Defense Forces. On Friday, the body of Shiri Bibas was also sent to Israel after Hamas had enraged Israelis by returning an unidentified Gaza woman in a coffin they said contained Bibas' body.
At the end of an incredibly hard day of mourning after Hamas returned four bodies of Gaza-held hostages, Israelis had to deal with a series of mass transportation terror attacks, and later, the news that one of the bodies was not who it was supposed to be.
The nation of Israel is in mourning. The bodies of four kidnapped hostages from the October 7th massacre made their way from Gaza to Israel Thursday morning. Today's exchange was widely regarded as the most heart-wrenching yet.
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar this week welcomed the Pacific island nation of Fiji as the seventh country to declare its embassy will move to Jerusalem.
Israel and Hamas have agreed to speed up the next exchange of the Hamas-held hostages for Palestinian prisoners. Hamas says it will now release six hostages this coming Saturday. It also says it will return the remains of four dead hostages to Israel on Thursday.
While the world focuses on Hamas and the hostages in Gaza, a U.S. Senate delegation visiting Israel warns Iran poses a much greater threat to the world as it rushes to develop nuclear bombs.
A disturbing video has surfaced of two nurses in an Australian hospital saying they've killed Israeli patients and threatened to kill more. But there's good news. The nurses have been identified and Australian leaders are denouncing it.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday. Their meeting follows a heart-wrenching Saturday when the Hamas terror group released three more hostages to their families. Monday also marks 500 days since the October 7th, 2023, attacks.
While Israelis have suffered in many ways for more than 16 months, so have the country's forests and animals. CBN News traveled north to visit an important park that reopened after more than a year.