A senior administration official provided more details about how the Israel-Hamas ceasefire and hostage release agreement finally came together.

"I think the pressure is building for Hamas to come to yes, and I think Israel also has achieved a huge amount of its military objectives in Gaza, and therefore, they are in a position to be able to say 'yes,'" U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan ...

Tel Aviv: Hamas has suffered a major blow amid the ceasefire in Gaza. The death of Hamas commander Marwan Issa has been confirmed in an Israeli attack. Marwan’s death occurred in an Israeli airstrike shortly before the ceasefire was implemented in Gaza.

The deal was reached after negotiations involving representatives of both the Biden and incoming Trump administrations

Hamas has finally given up and agreed to a Gaza ceasefire agreement and to start releasing the remaining hostages it kidnapped from Israel 467 days ago. This happened because they have lost the

Hamas and Israel have reached a deal to bring ... At the White House on Monday, national security adviser Jake Sullivan acknowledged “there has been a little bit of a Lucy and the football ...

Their dealmaking cooperation represents an unusual moment in the polarized world of U.S. politics. But it did not stop both Trump and Biden from touting their respective roles.

Hamas still has 94 hostages held captive ... the brink of coming to fruition,” and national security adviser Jake Sullivan said the deal could be completed “this week.”

Addressing the war in Gaza, the outgoing White House national security advisor said, ‘just having Israel say: OK, we accept the cease-fire. We have to just stop — at a time when all of these hostages are being held — that doesn’t wash.

Russia tried to conquer Kyiv in days and failed. It is bogged down, having incurred more than 600,000 casualties and mortgaged its economic and technological future. Ukraine remains a free and independent nation. It is building leverage for negotiations with Russia. And we didn’t have to send Americans to war to make any of this happen.

After 14 months of talks, Trump’s threats and his special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, played a major role in helping Biden officials reach the finish line.

Chaos erupted at Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s final press conference Thursday after an announced Israel-Hamas cease-fire and hostage deal, with State Department employees forcibly removing reporters who accused the cabinet official of allowing a “genocide” in Gaza.