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Trump’s national security adviser vows Hamas will never again govern Gaza |
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US President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming national security adviser, Mike Waltz, said on Sunday that if Hamas reneges on the Gaza ceasefire-for-hostages deal, the United States will support Israel “in doing what it has to do.” Waltz, who is currently a congressional representative for Florida, added in an interview with CBS’s “Face the Nation” that “Hamas will never govern Gaza. That is completely unacceptable.” Waltz added that the ceasefire should be “celebrated.” “We will see three women coming out alive,” he said of Sunday’s first release. “Had we not entered this [agreement], these people would have died.” Waltz said the hostages held by Hamas have been captive longer than US hostages held during the Iranian crisis in 1979, “but now we’re going to have a Reagan moment.” That was in reference to American hostages freed after 444 days when Ronald Reagan took office in 1981, in a deal that was largely negotiated by the outgoing president Jimmy Carter. “We’re going to have President Trump being sworn-in as hostages are coming out alive,” Waltz said. Waltz also said Trump and his team have made it clear to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that “if Hamas reneges on this deal and Hamas backs out, moves the goalposts, what have you, we will support Israel in doing what it has to do.” Waltz’s statements to CBS reiterated what he said in an interview with Fox News last week, where he said: “We’ve made it very clear to the Israelis, and I want the people of Israel to hear me on this: If they need to go back in, we’re with them,” he said. “If Hamas doesn’t live up to the terms of this agreement, we are with them.” |
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Spain plans 100% tax for homes bought by non-EU residents |
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Spain is planning to impose a tax of up to 100% on the value of properties bought by non-residents from countries outside the EU, such as the UK. Announcing the move, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said the “unprecedented” measure was necessary to meet the country’s housing emergency. “The West faces a decisive challenge: To not become a society divided into two classes, the rich landlords and poor tenants,” he said. Non-EU residents bought 27,000 properties in Spain in 2023, he told an economic forum in Madrid, “not to live in” but “to make money from them”. “Which, in the context of shortage that we are in, [we] obviously cannot allow,” he added. The move was designed to prioritise available homes for residents, the Spanish prime minister said. Sánchez did not provide any more details on how the tax would work nor a timeline for presenting it to parliament for approval, where he has often struggled to gather sufficient votes to pass legislation. His office described the proposed measure as a way to limit the purchase of homes by “non-resident non-EU foreigners”. It added: “The tax burden that they will have to pay in case of purchase will be increased up to 100% of the value of the property, in line with countries such as Denmark and Canada.” The Spanish government said the proposal would be finalised “after careful study”. It is one of a dozen planned measures announced by the Spanish prime minister on Monday aimed at improving housing affordability in the country. Other measures announced include a tax exemption for landlords who provide affordable housing, transferring more than 3,000 homes to a new public housing body, and tighter regulation and higher taxes on tourist flats. “It isn’t fair that those who have three, four or five apartments as short-term rentals pay less tax than hotels,” Sánchez said. |
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Trump to take more than 200 executive actions on day one |
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President-elect Trump will sign more than 200 executive actions on Inauguration Day—a massive, first wave of policy priorities focused on border security, energy, reducing the cost of living for American families, ending DEI programs across the federal government, and more, Fox News Digital has learned. A senior administration official who is familiar with the executive actions and authorized to brief Fox News Digital said Trump on day one will end “Catch and Release;” pause all offshore wind leases; terminate the electric vehicle mandate; abolish the Green New Deal; withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord; and take several major steps to assert presidential control over the federal bureaucracy. The official said Trump will sign multiple “omnibus” executive orders that each contain dozens of major executive actions. “The president is issuing a historic series of executive orders and actions that will fundamentally reform the American government, including the complete and total restoration of American sovereignty,” the official told Fox News Digital. On day one, the president-elect will declare a national border emergency; direct the U.S. military to work with the Department of Homeland Security to fully secure the southern border; and establish a national priority to eliminate all criminal cartels operating on U.S. soil. Trump will close the border to all illegal aliens via proclamation, Fox News Digital has learned. |
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Hostages Romi Gonen, Emily Damari, Doron Steinbrecher return to Israel after 471 days |
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For the first time since November 2023, three hostages taken during the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel were released by Hamas on Sunday under a ceasefire deal, returning to Israel after 471 days in captivity in Gaza and being reunited with their families. The first three hostages freed under the deal were civilians Romi Gonen, 24, Emily Damari, 28, and Doron Steinbrecher, 31. Gonen was abducted from the Supernova music festival, while Damari and Steinbrecher were taken from their homes in Kibbutz Kfar Aza. The three women were said to be in relatively good physical condition. On Sunday evening masked Hamas gunmen handed the three women to the Red Cross at Saraya Square in central Gaza City, where large rowdy crowds gathered, waving flags of the Palestinian terror group and holding cellphones in the air to film the event. Looking thin and frightened, the hostages disembarked from a Hamas military vehicle, surrounded by armed men struggling to hold back the crowd, and quickly boarded the Red Cross SUVs. An AFP journalist on-site said the Hamas gunman initially tried to keep the public away from the ICRC cars. But when another convoy of white vehicles arrived in the square carrying the three women to be handed over, the crowd of several thousand surged forward to surround them. Footage showed armed and balaclava-wearing gunmen stationed around the van containing the three women, as others stood on top of it. Red Cross staff wearing red vests briefly exchanged words with Hamas gunmen in the terror group’s distinctive green headbands. Around half an hour later, the Red Cross handed the hostages over to elite Israeli troops and Shin Bet agents inside Gaza. They were then transferred to Israel to a complex set up by the IDF near the Gaza border at Re’im Base, where they met their mothers for the first time in over 15 months. They also met with IDF representatives, doctors, psychologists, and mental health officers, and received initial treatment at the facility. Back home The IDF also published footage of the mothers of the three former hostages at the facility near the border, watching their daughters return to Israel, along with clips of the families celebrating during the moments when they were handed over to troops in the Gaza Strip. |
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Release of 90 Palestinian inmates delayed, as Israel reportedly blames Red Cross |
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The 90 Palestinian security prisoners set to be freed on the first day of the hostage-ceasefire deal with Hamas have not yet been released to their homes, according to Hebrew media. Ahead of the return of the three Israeli hostages, Israel’s Prison Service bussed the first round of Palestinian prisoners to Ofer Prison in the West Bank, where Israeli security forces and Red Cross representatives verified each prisoner’s identity and performed medical checks on them. Now past midnight, the Ynet news site reports that the security officials blame the Red Cross for the hours-long delay, and accuse the organization’s staff of deliberately stalling the process with the purported motive of making Israel seem like it is not complying with the deal’s terms. The prisoners include 78 West Bank residents, who will be released at the Beitunia Checkpoint near Ofer Prison. The remaining 12 East Jerusalem residents have already been transported back to the city and are now being held by police in the Russian Compound detention center. Once the release commences, police will escort the former detainees back to their homes. Those slated for release today include 69 women — including one minor — eight male minors, and 12 men sentenced for relatively minor offenses like incitement, identifying with terrorism and disorderly conduct, according to Ynet. A total of almost 2,000 inmates are planned to be released during the first phase of the ceasefire deal. |
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