Israel and Hamas are close to reaching a hostage deal in which most of the women and children held hostage in Gaza would be released, a senior Israeli official told the Washington Post on Monday evening. Although Israel wants the release of all 100 women and children abducted to Gaza, Hamas is only willing to release 70.

Hamas isn’t just wielding guns and rockets in their terror escapades against innocent Jews; they employ psychological terror too. And in the latest iteration of the latter, Hamas on Monday released a new video of a hostage abducted on October 7th, 19-year-old IDF lookout Noa Marciano.

The Israeli Air Force’s elite search and rescue Unit 669 has conducted over 60 medical evacuations from within the Gaza Strip during the military’s ground offensive. These evacuations involved transporting wounded soldiers to hospitals in Israel.

IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari has announced that the Navy’s elite Shayetet 13 commando unit and the 401st Armored Brigade conducted a raid on Rantisi Hospital in Gaza City, which primarily treats children.

Rabbi Moshe Hauer, Executive VP of the Orthodox Union, joined Fox News to discuss why a massive pro-Israel rally is taking place in Washington on Tuesday, and what its goals are.

The Satmar Rebbe of Williamsburg, HaRav Zalman Leib Teitelbaum, sharply condemned the Neturei Karta extremist group in the wake of their participation in pro-Hamas protests around thr world.

The IDF released for publication on Monday that an Israeli civilian was killed on Sunday after Hezbollah launched an anti-tank guided missile at the Dovev moshav in northern Israel. He is the third Israeli civilian to be killed by Hezbollah fire since the start of the war.

A Washington Post report published on Sunday revealed that Hamas’s plans for October 7 included traveling deeper into Israel and attacking major Israeli cities and military bases and reaching Israel’s Biblical heartland, Yehudah and Shomron.

The IDF said Sunday that its forces delivered 300 liters of urgently needed fuel for medical use at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, but that Hamas Health Minister Yosef Abu Rish blocked hospital officials from getting it.

Senior Israeli officials believe that most of the Israeli hostages are being held in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, Channel 12 reported on Motzei Shabbos.