“I’m so glad you’re okay and home,” shared UF student, Lauren Robbins. Robbins is relieved that her friend, 19-year-old Liri Albag is free after being held hostage by Hamas, and emotions are running high in Israel and right here in Gainesville.

Under the deal that paused the 15-month war, Israel would release 200 Palestinian prisoners or detainees in exchange for the four Israeli women, including 120 combatants serving life sentences after being convicted of deadly attacks.

Clearly, the entire world recognizes that this was the Trump effect,” said Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.), who will serve as Trump’s principal adviser on all national security issues.

The owner of a hotel in Orlando, Florida’s tourist district has reached an agreement with the U.S. Justice Department over discrimination allegations.

A hotel owner in the tourist district of Orlando, Florida has reached an agreement ... for an Arab American group in the aftermath of Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel. In the complaint filed ...

The deal brokered by Qatar and the United States as of Thursday morning has not been approved by the Israeli Cabinet amid what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls a “last-minute crisis” with Hamas.

For Judith Raanan, a former Hamas hostage and Jalal Shehadeh ... Meanwhile, Shehadeh, a Palestinian who now lives in South Florida, highlighted the devastation in Gaza. "We have children who ...

But the plan includes the release of hostages and bodies held in Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas militants attacked Israel, killing more than a thousand people and taking hostages back into ...

Throughout the war, the Israeli military had barred Palestinians from returning to the north by severing Gaza along the Netzarim corridor, a belt that runs east to west across the strip where troops cleared out the Palestinian population and set up bases.

A Florida Congressman who is set to be the next National Security Adviser to President-elect Donald Trump is still bullish on a ceasefire deal with Hamas that Israel’s government may not approve.

A Florida hotel owner reached an agreement with the DOJ, which accused the hotel of discrimination after it canceled a planned conference for an Arab American group.

Trump said he discussed his vision on a call earlier in the day with King Abdullah II of Jordan and would speak Sunday with President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi of Egypt.