The United Arab Emirates has been in discussions with Israel and the United States about the possibly of playing a role in postwar efforts to rebuild Gaza, but its conditions for doing so have yet to be met,

A messy ceasefire offering opportunities for more fighting is unlikely to hold – because extremists on both sides think they’re winning, warns world affairs editor Sam Kiley

American students who visited Israel and the UAE through the Geller International Fellowship witnessed firsthand the successes of the Abraham Accords.

The Israeli Defense Forces and the Shin Bet "located and returned the kidnapped body" of hostage Yosef Al-Zaydani on Tuesday "from an underground tunnel in the Rafah area," the army said in a release Wednesday. Israel said it has also recovered another body and are working to determine whether it is Al-Zaydani's son, Hamza.

On Friday January 17, the Israeli security cabinet gave its approval to the proposed ceasefire in the Palestinian enclave, after almost two days of procrastination, marked by the recriminations of far-right ministers.

If President-elect Donald Trump wants Mideast peace he will have to godfather a Palestinian state alongside Israel.

A “tense” weekend meeting between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ... Witkoff urged Netanyahu to accept key compromises necessary for an agreement, the two Arab officials on Monday told ...

The ceasefire as agreed to in Qatar is set to last 42 days. Over that period, 33 hostages are expected to be freed in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, there will be a slow withdrawal of the Israeli military from urban centers in Gaza and a surge of humanitarian aid.

Photo: Relatives and friends of people killed and abducted by Hamas and taken into Gaza, react to the ceasefire announcement as they take part in a

Israel supplied Iran with centrifuge platforms containing explosives for its nuclear enrichment program in an act of sabotage

While major ruptures are not expected, Gulf states are urging a tougher stance on Israel and a softening toward Iran, positions that differ greatly from the president-elect’s first term.

The two diplomats discussed “regional developments and bilateral relations between the countries,” according to Jerusalem.