{"id":243212,"date":"2025-10-22T09:46:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T09:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/243212\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T09:46:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T09:46:18","slug":"gaza-latest-israel-identifies-two-more-hostages-as-vance-prepares-to-meet-netanyahu-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/243212\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaza latest: Israel identifies two more hostages – as Vance prepares to meet Netanyahu | World News"},"content":{"rendered":"

That’s it for our live coverage on the conflict in Gaza today.<\/p>\n

In the day’s big development, Donald Trump warned on social media that US allies in the Middle East were ready to send “heavy force” into Gaza to deal with Hamas if the group “continues to act badly”.<\/p>\n

He added that an end to Hamas would be “FAST, FURIOUS, & BRUTAL” if it did not do “what is right”, after escalated tensions between the group and Israel in recent days.<\/p>\n

Trump’s vice president JD Vance denied he had travelled to Israel due to the ceasefire tensions, as he gave a speech after touching down in the country.<\/p>\n

He said he felt “very optimistic” about the ceasefire holding but admitted there would be “hills and valleys” ahead as he opened the Civilian Military Cooperation Centre designed to help with peacekeeping.<\/p>\n

Vance also called for patience from Israelis over the return of the remaining dead Israeli hostages by Hamas.<\/p>\n

Reports also suggested US secretary of state Marco Rubio is planning to travel to Israel later this week or over the weekend, with Vance, special envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner already in the country for discussions on the ceasefire.<\/p>\n

You can watch our Middle East correspondent Adam Parsons<\/a>‘ assessment of Vance’s speech below…<\/p>\n

In the last couple of hours, Israel confirmed it had received coffins containing the remains of two more hostages from the Red Cross and transported them out of Gaza.<\/p>\n

Although formal identification has not yet taken place, it would bring the total number of returned deceased hostages to 15, with 13 still missing by Israel’s count.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, the UK government confirmed it had sent a senior commander and a small number of troops to Israel to help international efforts to monitor the ceasefire.<\/p>\n

The Israeli government also called for Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to reconsider his stance on Benjamin Netanyahu, after he publicly admitted he would arrest Israel’s prime minister if he travelled to Canada.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That’s it for our live coverage on the conflict in Gaza today. In the day’s big development, Donald…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-243212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}