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A woman walks past a mural depicting football player Lamine Yamal waving a Palestinian flag during the Catalans' title parade, painted by Palestinian artists on the rubble of buildings destroyed during the war, at Shati (Beach) refugee camp in Gaza City on May 13, 2026. (photo credit: OMAR AL-QATTAA/AFP via Getty Images) Hamas's  announcement on the  dissolution  of its government was a ruse meant to maintain its weaponry, Col. (Res.) Dr. Moshe Elad, a Palestinian affairs expert from the Western Galilee Academic College, said on the 103FM radio show "Five in the Evening" on Monday. "The intention is obviously mostly public, to  pretend  as though they have no interest in the current government," Elad clarified. "When someone is told to give up their main asset, they say, 'I will give up something else instead.' They are being told to give up their weapons, so instead, they supposedly give up their governance. With the weapons left in their hands...

Gunmen stand guard at the funeral of Marwan Issa, a senior Hamas deputy military commander who was killed in an Israeli airstrike during the conflict between Israel and Hamas, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in the central Gaza Strip, February 7, 2025. (photo credit: REUTERS/Ramadan Abed) Hamas on Monday announced that the head of the Emergency Committee had submitted his resignation, as the first step to dissolving the “committee for monitoring government activity,” the body that effectively serves as  Hamas’s  government in the Gaza Strip. Even if the Board of Peace (BoP) welcomed the decision in a public statement, a diplomatic source told  The Jerusalem Post  that Hamas’s announcement is still insufficient to allow the technocratic government (NCAG) to enter Gaza. Gaza Board of Peace: 'Assessment will be guided by actions, not promises' • Hamas says move made to facilitate handover of administrative powers to technocratic committee

Palestinians ride past the rubble of residential buildings destroyed during the Israeli offensive, in Gaza City, June 23, 2026. (photo credit: REUTERS/DAWOUD ABU ALKAS) Despite Hamas’s stated willingness to hand over authority to a technocratic committee, the terrorist group will not relinquish its power, according to  Palestinians  familiar with the matter. “Hamas hasn’t declared an end to its rule in the  Gaza Strip, ” a senior Palestinian official in  Ramallah  told The Jerusalem Post on Monday. “What they have done is announce the dissolution of what they call the emergency committee. But at the same time, they immediately declared that another temporary governing body would run the [Gaza] Strip and appointed someone to head it.” Hamas seeks to maintain both its military capabilities and governmental authority in Gaza, the official said. “They say they want to hand over authority to the technocratic committee, but I believe this is only as part of the d...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a special plenum session in honor of US President Donald Trump at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, October 13, 2025 (photo credit: YONATAN SINDEL/FLASH90) Prime Minister  Benjamin Netanyahu  warned that if the US  gives Turkey F-35 fighter jets , it may upset the balance of power in the Middle East and threaten Israeli air superiority in the region during an interview with Fox and Friends on Monday. “Turkey is a great country, but it's governed by a man who calls openly for the annihilation of Israel,” Netanyahu said in reference to Turkish President  Recep Tayyip Erdogan . “He occupies half of Cyprus, a NATO country. He's threatening Greece, another NATO country, and he talks openly about conquering Jerusalem.” He drew attention to the presence and influence of the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist group in Turkey, asserting that Ankara’s leadership is “a regime infected by the Muslim Brotherhood,” that “hates America and ch...

US Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R), Republican from Louisiana, shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as they speak to the press at the US Capitol following their closed-door meeting in Washington, February 7, 2025; illustrative. (photo credit: Oliver Contreras / AFP via Getty Images) A majority of  Republican  primary voters have maintained a deep level of support for Israel, amid an ascendancy of anti-Israel  Democratic  primary winners, a poll published by the Washington Free Beacon on Monday found. The poll was conducted between June 5-9, the outlet noted, before a wave of anti-Israel Democratic candidates won their primaries across the US, particularly in New York and Colorado.   The poll found that likely Republican primary voters would prefer a candidate who supports a strong US-Israel relationship by a 57% margin, and one who explicitly denounces antisemitism by a 52% margin. Respondents also said that they were less likely to sup...

US President Donald Trump gestures after ringing the opening bell for the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and Nasdaq during an event to mark the launch of "Trump Accounts" in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, July 6, 2026. (photo credit: Evan Vucci/REUTERS) US President Donald Trump spoke to reporters in the Oval Office on Monday about the ongoing negotiations with Iran, at an event marking the launch of  Trump Accounts , saying, "We're going to make a deal, or we're going to finish the job." The  president  said, "We freed up the blockade because we're close to maybe making a deal - I don't know, look - we're going to win one way or the other.? He then went on to say, "It won't be tough to finish the job. I'd rather make a deal, because I don't want to affect 91 million people. We can knock down their bridges in one hour; we can knock out their energy supply, all of those big plants that they built - big, bea...