A Qatar Foreign Ministry spokesperson said that the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas will begin on Friday morning at 7 a.m. He added that the first group of 13 hostages will be released on Friday at 4 p.m.

In a surprise announcement late Wednesday night, the head of Israel’s National Security Council, Tzachi Hanegbi, informed the Israeli public that the hostage deal is being delayed to Friday at the earliest and that negotiations are still ongoing.

In a disturbing instance of antisemitism, a man was apprehended on Wednesday afternoon for allegedly unleashing a barrage of antisemitic vitriol and menacingly targeting a visibly Jewish father and his son in the heart of Crown Heights.

A suspected car bombing on Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls, NY, early Wednesday afternoon has shut down the border crossing between the U.S. and Canada, officials have confirmed.

In a significant development, the IDF have allowed Israeli journalists access to the network of terror tunnels located beneath the Hamas terror hub at Shifa Hospital.

New York City is on high alert as authorities have received intelligence chatter about an elevated risk of a potential terrorist attack directly linked to the war in Gaza.

The Israeli government on Wednesday morning published the details of the hostage deal approved by the cabinet earlier in the morning. The deal was approved after a meeting that lasted about eight hours. The only party that voted against the deal was the Otzma Yehudit party.

In an extraordinary early Wednesday morning vote, Israel’s cabinet endorsed an agreement aimed at securing the release of approximately 50 hostages who were kidnapped and taken to Gaza during the terror attack on October 7.

Israel and Hamas on Tuesday appeared close to a deal to temporarily halt their devastating six-week war for dozens of hostages being held in the Gaza Strip to be freed in exchange for Palestinians in Israeli prisons.

Despite opposition from far-right parties Religious Zionism and Otzma Yehudit, which together account for six cabinet votes, the government is expected to secure a majority within the 38-person cabinet to approve a hostage deal.