Biden says he hopes for Israel-Hamas cease-fire by Monday
President Biden has said the U.S. was working to negotiate a hostage deal between Israel and Hamas that would pause fighting in Gaza for at least six weeks.
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President Biden has said the U.S. was working to negotiate a hostage deal between Israel and Hamas that would pause fighting in Gaza for at least six weeks.
An active-duty U.S. Air Force member died after he set himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C.
The United States has vetoed an Arab-backed and widely supported U.N. resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war.
Parents and their kids gathered near the National Constitution Center in Old City to call for a cease-fire in Gaza on Monday.
Families gathered in Old City, Philadelphia, Monday to call for a cease-fire in Gaza.
It comes after the Senate passed the measure with significant bipartisan support. CBS News Correspondent Natalie Brand reports. READ MORE: https://cbsloc.al/3ULXb8C
Even though the $95 billion aid package passed the upper chamber, its prospects in the House appear dim.
Additional aid for Israel faces an unclear path in Congress.
President Joe Biden is urging Congress to pass the bill, which would overhaul parts of the U.S. immigration system and provide wartime aid to Ukraine and Israel.
It began Monday morning outside the Capitol but moved to the Rotunda by early afternoon.
As the Israel-Hamas War continues, efforts also continue to free more than 130 hostages.
On Sunday in Fairmount Park, members of the local Jewish community came in prayer and protest to demand the safe return of Israeli hostages in the war with Hamas.
The airstrikes come one day after the U.S. launched retaliatory airstrikes on Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its affiliated militias in Syria and Iraq.
Johnson says the new aid bill will not include cuts to other programs.
The U.S. military plans to strike targets in Iraq and Syria, including Iranian personnel and facilities, in response to a drone attack that killed 3 U.S. troops.
More than 25,000 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, according to the Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza.
The State Department confirms a U.S. citizen died in the West Bank, adding that "we are working to understand the circumstances."
More than 100 of the hostages seized by Hamas back in October were freed during a short-lived truce in November. However, Israel says more than 130 people are still being held captive.
Syrian and Iranian officials and media say an Israeli strike on Damascus, killed four Iranian advisers with Tehran's Revolutionary Guard's expeditionary Al Quds force.
Israeli leaders insist that freeing the remaining hostages seized during Hamas' terror attack is a priority, but after 100 days of war, one hostage's family says they feel forgotten.
CBS News producer Marwan al-Ghoul says when he goes out to cover the war and sees children killed by Israeli airstrikes, he can't help imagining they're his own kids.
Officials say more than 30 Palestinians, including young children, were killed in Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip.
The Houthis, an Iran-backed proxy force, have been attacking commercial shipping in the Red Sea since soon after the Israel-Hamas war began.
Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey criticized the recent lack of transparency over the hospitalization of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, saying, "There's no way it's acceptable."
As Antony Blinken arrived to seek a "way forward," Israel continued its bombardment of Gaza and there was fresh violence along the country's northern border with Lebanon.
