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Israel hostage deal in doubt as Hamas adds demands, US envoy calls terms ‘unacceptable’

Hamas has agreed to release 10 living hostages and return the bodies of 18 more, but the terms of the proposed deal have been deemed unacceptable by the U.S. and Israel.
The group, which has been on the State Department’s list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations since 1997, made the announcement in a statement Saturday and said it was being done on the condition that a number of Palestinian prisoners be returned in exchange as part of a means to achieve a permanent ceasefire.
Israeli media reported that Hamas added new demands to the proposal from U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, including a permanent ceasefire, complete Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and unrestricted humanitarian aid flow into the strip.
Witkoff’s proposal did not include a full withdrawal or a ceasefire, the Jerusalem Post reported, and that Hamas added terms of its own.
In a statement posted to X on Saturday, Witkoff called Hamas’ response to the American proposal «totally unacceptable» and warned it «only takes us backward.» He urged the group to accept the original framework in order to begin proximity talks as early as next week, which could pave the way for a 60-day ceasefire and the return of both living and deceased hostages.
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Relatives and supporters of Israeli hostages held captive in the Gaza Strip since the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attacks in southern Israel, hold their portraits during a protest at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv on Wednesday to mark 600 days of captivity. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP via Getty Images)
In a statement before Witkoff’s response, Hamas wrote: «After conducting a round of national consultations, and based on our immense sense of responsibility towards our people and their suffering, the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) today submitted its response to US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff’s latest proposal to the mediating parties.
«This proposal aims to achieve a permanent ceasefire, a comprehensive withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, and ensure the flow of aid to our people and our families in the Gaza Strip.»
Reacting to the announcement, the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement that while Israel had agreed to the updated Witkoff framework, «Hamas continues to cling to its refusal.» The office emphasized that Israel remains committed to bringing its hostages home and defeating Hamas, citing Witkoff’s remarks as confirmation that Hamas’ latest stance undermines progress.
Hamas is holding 58 hostages in Gaza. Of these, Israeli intelligence assesses that at least 34 are deceased, leaving approximately 24 believed to be alive. More than 250 people were captured during the Hamas terror attacks on southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.

U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff has been negotiating a ceasefire proposal in Gaza. (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)
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The latest proposal being negotiated involves the release of 10 living hostages and a number of bodies during a 60-day pause in exchange for more than 1,100 Palestinians imprisoned by Israel, including 100 serving long sentences after being convicted of deadly attacks, The Associated Press reported Friday, citing a Hamas official and an Egyptian official speaking on condition of anonymity.
U.S. negotiators had not publicized the terms of the proposal.
Witkoff’s office reiterated on social media that the proposed deal could allow «half of the living hostages and half of those who are deceased» to return to their families if Hamas agrees to enter talks under the current terms.
The statement stressed that the window to finalize the deal is narrowing, and that major negotiations could begin «in good faith» within days if Hamas accepts.
«As stated by the U.S. President’s special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff: Hamas’ response is unacceptable and sets the situation back,» the Prime Minister’s Office said.

Hamas fighters stand in formation as Palestinians gather on a street to watch the handover of three Israeli hostages to a Red Cross team in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza, Feb. 8. (Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
President Donald Trump said Friday that negotiators were nearing a deal.
«They’re very close to an agreement on Gaza, and we’ll let you know about it during the day or maybe tomorrow,» Trump told reporters in Washington. Late in the evening, asked if he was confident Hamas would approve the deal, he told reporters: «They’re in a big mess. I think they want to get out of it.»
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Deep differences between Hamas and Israel have stymied previous attempts to restore a ceasefire that broke down in March.
Israel has insisted that Hamas disarm completely, be dismantled as a military and governing force and return all hostages still held in Gaza before it agrees to end the war. Hamas has rejected the demand to give up its weapons and says Israel must pull its troops out of Gaza and commit to ending the war.
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
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«Si no asaltás el camión, no comés»: la lucha por conseguir harina se tiñe de sangre en Gaza

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Los aranceles de Trump, la nueva fuente de ingresos de Estados Unidos

Los amplios aranceles del presidente Donald Trump ya empezaron a generar una importante cantidad de dinero para el gobierno de Estados Unidos, con lo que se convierten en una nueva fuente de ingresos para una nación muy endeudada de la que los legisladores estadounidenses podrían empezar a depender.
Como parte de su intento de reordenar el sistema de comercio mundial, Trump impuso aranceles muy elevados a los socios comerciales de Estados Unidos, la mayoría de los cuales comenzaron a regir este jueves 7 de agosto.
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Incluso antes de que entraran en vigor los últimos aranceles, los ingresos procedentes de los impuestos recaudados sobre los bienes importados han aumentado espectacularmente en lo que va del año. Los derechos de Aduana, junto con algunos impuestos especiales, generaron US$152.000 millones hasta julio, aproximadamente el doble de los 78.000 millones de dólares recaudados en el mismo periodo del año fiscal pasado, según datos del Tesoro.
Trump citó de forma sistemática los ingresos arancelarios como prueba de que su enfoque comercial, que sembró la incertidumbre y empezó a aumentar los precios para los consumidores, es una victoria para Estados Unidos.
Miembros de su gobierno argumentaron que el dinero de los aranceles ayudaría a cubrir el agujero creado por los amplios recortes fiscales que el Congreso aprobó el mes pasado, que se espera que cuesten al gobierno norteamericano al menos 3,4 billones de dólares.
“¡La buena noticia es que los aranceles están trayendo miles de millones de dólares a EEUU!”, dijo Trump en las redes sociales poco después de que un informe negativo sobre el empleo mostrara signos de tensión en el mercado laboral. Contenedores de carga llenan un buque en el puerto de Oakland el miércoles 6 de agosto de 2025, en Oakland, California. (AP Foto/Noah Berger)
Con el tiempo, los analistas prevén que los aranceles, si se mantienen, podrían suponer más de 2 billones de dólares en ingresos adicionales durante la próxima década. Los economistas esperan mayoritariamente que eso no ocurra y que Estados Unidos abandone esas barreras comerciales. Pero algunos reconocen que un flujo de ingresos tan importante podría resultar difícil de abandonar.
“Creo que esto es adictivo”, dijo Joao Gomes, economista de la Wharton School de la Universidad de Pensilvania. “Creo que es muy difícil rechazar una fuente de ingresos cuando la deuda y el déficit están como ahora”, sostuvo.
Trump fantasea desde hace tiempo con sustituir los impuestos sobre la renta por aranceles. En varias oportunidades, se refiere con cariño a la política fiscal estadounidense de finales del siglo XIX, cuando no existía el impuesto sobre la renta y el gobierno dependía de los aranceles, y la ha citado como modelo para el futuro. Y aunque los impuestos sobre la renta y sobre las nóminas aún son, con mucho, las fuentes más importantes de ingresos públicos, la combinación de los aranceles de Trump y la última rebaja fiscal republicana aleja, en el margen, a Estados Unidos de gravar las ganancias y se acerca a gravar los bienes.
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Se espera que este cambio sea regresivo, lo que significa que a los estadounidenses ricos les irá mejor que a los más pobres. Esto se debe a que, en general, la reducción de los impuestos sobre la renta beneficia más a los estadounidenses más ricos, que son los que más ganan. El reciente recorte republicano de los impuestos sobre la renta y de la red de seguridad social es quizá la ley más regresiva de las últimas décadas.
Sin embargo, se espera que la aplicación de nuevos impuestos a los productos importados aumente el costo de los bienes cotidianos. Los estadounidenses con rentas más bajas gastan una mayor parte de sus ingresos en esos bienes más caros, lo que significa que los aranceles suponen para ellos una mayor subida de impuestos que para los estadounidenses más ricos.
Los aranceles empezaron a repercutir en los precios al consumo, y muchas empresas afirman que tendrán que empezar a subir los precios como consecuencia de los costos añadidos. Y los analistas esperan que los aranceles pesen sobre el rendimiento de la economía en general, lo que a su vez podría reducir la cantidad de ingresos por el impuesto sobre la renta tradicional que el gobierno recauda cada año.
“¿Existe una forma mejor de recaudar esa cantidad de ingresos? La respuesta económica es: sí, hay una forma mejor, hay formas más eficientes”, dijo Ernie Tedeschi, director de economía del Laboratorio Presupuestario de Yale y exfuncionario del gobierno del presidente Joe Biden y agregó: “Pero en realidad es una cuestión política”.
Tedeschi dijo que los futuros dirigentes de Washington, ya sean republicanos o demócratas, podrían dudar en retirar los aranceles si ello supusiera un nuevo aumento de la carga de la deuda federal, que ya hace saltar las alarmas en Wall Street. Y sustituir los ingresos arancelarios por subas de otros impuestos exigiría la actuación del Congreso, mientras que los aranceles serían una decisión heredada de un presidente anterior.
“Es posible que al Congreso no le entusiasme la idea de realizar una votación tan políticamente arriesgada cuando, para empezar, no tenía que votar sobre los aranceles”, dijo Tedeschi. U.S. President Donald Trump looks on as he and Apple CEO Tim Cook (not pictured) present Apple’s announcement of a $100 billion investment in U.S. manufacturing, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 6, 2025. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
Algunos en Washington ya comienzan a pensar en cómo podrían gastar los ingresos arancelarios. Trump planteó recientemente la posibilidad de enviar a los estadounidenses un reembolso en efectivo por los aranceles, y el senador Josh Hawley, republicano de Misuri, presentó recientemente una ley para enviar 600 dólares a muchos estadounidenses. “Está llegando tanto dinero que estamos pensando en un pequeño reembolso, pero lo más importante que queremos hacer es pagar la deuda”, dijo Trump el mes pasado sobre los aranceles.
Los demócratas, una vez que vuelvan al poder, pueden enfrentarse a una tentación similar de utilizar los ingresos arancelarios para financiar un nuevo programa social, especialmente si subir los impuestos en el Congreso resulta tan difícil como en el pasado. Tal como están las cosas, los demócratas se han dividido sobre los aranceles. Mantener el statu quo puede ser una opción política más fácil que cambiar la política comercial.
“Es una cantidad considerable de dinero”, dijo Tyson Brody, estratega demócrata, sobre los aranceles. “La forma en que los demócratas comienzan a pensar en ello no es que ‘serán imposibles de retirar’. Es: ‘Oh, miren, ahora habrá una gran cantidad de dinero para utilizar y reprogramar’”.
Por supuesto, los aranceles podrían resultar impopulares, y los futuros cargos electos podrían querer tomar medidas que pudieran reducir los precios al consumo. Al mismo tiempo, la cantidad de ingresos que generan los aranceles podría disminuir con el tiempo si, de hecho, las empresas acaban por traer de vuelta a Estados Unidos una mayor parte de sus operaciones, lo cual reduce el número de bienes que se enfrentan al impuesto de importación.
“Está claro que no es una forma eficaz de recaudar ingresos”, dijo Alex Jacquez, exfuncionario de Biden y jefe de política y defensa de Groundwork Collaborative, un grupo liberal. “Y no creo que sea una prioridad progresista a largo plazo como forma de recaudar ingresos sin más”.
Por Andrew Duehren.
Donald Trump, aranceles
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Business owner behind mysterious ‘Remember Hiroshima’ protest doll at Disneyland’s ‘Small World’ ride revealed

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Baffled Disneyland visitors at the «It’s a Small World» attraction were greeted by a protest doll holding a sign reading «Remember Hiroshima» over the weekend, sparking questions and speculation online as videos of the doll spread.
Videos began circulating on TikTok and Reddit Monday showing a woman carrying a female doll holding a sign reading «Remember Hiroshima» while walking around Disneyland. Another photo online showed the doll within the «It’s a Small World» exhibit, strategically positioned next to one of the tunnels that the boat ride traffics.
Speculation mounted as the videos spread and earned hundreds of thousands of views and social media users questioned the meaning of the political stunt, while others questioned how the doll made it through the park’s tight security.
Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen revealed he was behind the stunt Thursday, telling Fox News Digital in a phone interview that he’s in the midst of a campaign against the U.S. government’s stockpile of powerful weapons as part of his «Up in Arms» campaign against the Pentagon’s spending budget. Cohen said that while the campaign targets current policies under the Trump administration, the matter of Pentagon spending is «disgustingly bipartisan» and stretches long past the current administration.
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A protest doll holding a sign reading «Remember Hiroshima» was spotted at Disneyland’s «It’s a Small World» attraction. (DCX Growth Accelerator)
«The whole idea of the Small World exhibit is that it’s a small world after all,» Cohen told Fox News Digital in a phone interview. «You got all the children from the different countries around the world being together, loving each other. And we put a doll in there that says, ‘Remember Hiroshima.’ I mean, that’s what was supposed to happen after the bomb in Hiroshima. We were supposed to remember what we did there and say, ‘Never again.’ And we’ve, we’ve ignored that.»

A doll holding a sign reading «Remember Hiroshima» was spotted at Disneyland’s It’s a Small World exhibit over the weekend. (DCX Growth Accelerator)
The political protest was launched just ahead of the 80th anniversary of the 1945 Hiroshima bombings Thursday, when an atomic bomb killed more than 100,000 people in the Japanese city during World War II. Cohen specifically took issue with the ongoing war in Gaza, which he called the «moral issue of our time,» when speaking with Fox Digital, as well as the Pentagon’s nearly $900 billion budget.
«They’ve turned us all into murderers, and they’re taking our money, buying bombs with it, and giving it to Israel to slaughter people in Gaza,» he said of the war that has raged since the Biden administration. «And a whole lot of them are kids, just like that little girl that we placed in Disneyland.»
Cohen said his criticisms of the U.S.’ military budget and push to build stockpiles of weapons is «disgustingly bipartisan,» stretching back long before the Trump administration.
«Trump is the current president. He’s responsible, but I can tell you that all the presidents before him were responsible as well,» he said, referring to the U.S.’ nuclear weapons program across the decades.
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Ben Cohen, of Ben & Jerry’s, has a long history of left-wing political activism. (Getty Images)
Trump repeatedly has championed his «peace through strength» vision for the U.S. military, citing that a powerful U.S. military will keep other nations from sparking wars.
«For at least two decades, political leaders from both parties have dragged our military into missions it was never meant to be,» Trump, for example, said during his speech to the graduating class at West Point Military Academy in May. «They sent our warriors on nation-building crusades to nations that wanted nothing to do with us, led by leaders that didn’t have a clue in distant lands, while abusing our soldiers with absurd ideological experiments here and at home.»
He added that those days are over via his peace through strength mission for the military, adding at the time, «My preference will always be to make peace and to seek partnership, even with countries where our differences may be profound.»
A Disneyland spokesperson told Fox Digital, when asked about the protest doll, that a cast member swiftly removed the doll from the ride attraction when it was first spotted, and reminded the guest of park rules. The activist who placed the doll within the attraction left without incident, according to Disney.

Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen was detained for interrupting a Senate hearing in May. (Getty Images)
Ben & Jerry’s, which Cohen and co-founder Jerry Greenfield sold in 2000, has a long history of left-wing politics and social justice activism, including rolling out ice cream flavors such as «Pecan Resist» in 2018 to protest the first Trump administration, and «Change the Whirled» in 2021 that was crafted with former NFL player Colin Kaepernick, who was the first sports player to popularize kneeling during the national anthem back in 2016.
Cohen, specifically, also has not shied away from participating in public protests, including in May when he was detained after interrupting a Senate hearing focused on aid to Gaza.
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Cohen said he is just beginning a four-year campaign protesting the U.S.’ military budget in an effort to get the funds «toward the things that people really want.»
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«Americans are compassionate,» he said. «We don’t want to kill families just like ours in other countries, we just want a good life for ourselves and our kids. People want a decent place to live that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg, good schools, affordable childcare, but they say there’s not enough money, and what they don’t say is that they’re spending it all on preparing to kill literally millions of people around the world.»
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