Nir Barka also said that former U.S. President Joe Biden "restrained Israel," and expressed optimism about support from President Donald Trump.

Of all the images to have streamed out of Gaza on Sunday, perhaps the most telling was, ironically, that of a camera itself.

"It is striking that Israel was not mentioned in the president's inauguration speech," a senior Hamas official told Newsweek.

In a rare move hours after the cease-fire took effect, one senior Hamas official said the group wants to engage the new Trump administration.

The group is set to release the more than 90 hostages over the coming weeks as part of the ceasefire deal with Israel.

President Biden released a statement following the Israel-Hamas ceasefire announcement Wednesday, saying release of American hostages will be included in the agreement.

The company fulfilled requests from Israel’s military for more access to AI tools as it sought to compete with Amazon, documents obtained by The Post show.

Emily Damari, one of the first hostages freed by Hamas in the cease-fire agreement, is speaking out for the first time following her release.

In the days since a fragile ceasefire took hold in the Gaza Strip, Israel has launched a major military operation in the occupied West Bank and suspected Jewish settlers have rampaged through two Palestinian towns.

There is documentation that terrorists released in similar deals have continued to murder Jews once they were freed. This cycle of incentivizing terror must end.