That's the militant group that runs the Gaza Strip whose fighters attacked Israel on October 7. ... Brett McGurk is on the line with us to tell us more.

Brett McGurk defended Biden’s support for Israel, ... Hamas continued to launch rockets from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory and pledged to repeat the October 7 massacre.

By Brett McGurk. Brett McGurk served ... Hamas is a terrorist group that has ruled the Gaza Strip for nearly two decades. Its Oct. 7 attack, however, was not just an act of terrorism but a full ...

Brett McGurk defended Biden’s support for Israel, criticized Hamas’s hostage tactics, and praised Trump for calling Hamas’s bluff to secure hostage releases and push for a Gaza without Hamas.

A Palestinian official claimed that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had purposefully sent a delegation to Doha, Qatar, with no real decision-making authority on key points of contention in order to ...

On October 6, 2023, Brett McGurk believed that a Middle East peace deal was within reach—that the Biden administration just might succeed where every administration before it had failed. McGurk ...

Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in the central Gaza Strip on Wednesday. (Abdel Kareem Hana/AP) After months of agonizing negotiation, the Biden administration appears close to a cease ...

Tel Aviv — Israeli military strikes killed more than 600 people in the Gaza Strip in the first 10 days of 2025, pushing the death toll over 46,000 since the war began on Oct. 7, 2023, according ...

The planning process is spearheaded by senior National Security Council official Brett McGurk. He is being assisted by Terry Wolff, a veteran of the Defense and State departments now at the NSC.