1️⃣0️⃣1️⃣ HOSTAGES 🎗️
- Egypt has been in talks with Hamas in Cairo for the last two days as part of its efforts to unite Palestinian factions, but there has been no reported progress on a hostage deal https://lnk.sk/eqxc
———
USA election 🇺🇸
- “This year has been difficult, given the scale of death and destruction in Gaza and given the civilian casualties and displacement in Lebanon, it is devastating. And as president, I will do everything in my power to end the war in Gaza,” addressed Kamala Harris to state’s 200,000 Arab Americans in Michigan…
- …Trump visited Dearborn, Michigan, the heart of the Arab American community, on Friday and vowed to end the conflict in the Middle East without saying how.https://lnk.sk/tm78
- Opinion polls show the pair locked in a tight race, with Vice President Harris, 60, bolstered by strong support among female voters while former President Trump, 78, gains ground with Hispanic voters, especially men.
———
ISRAEL 🇮🇱
- PM spokesman Eli Feldstein suspected of leaking intel that could have hurt hostage efforts. Former Ben Gvir aide and IDF spokesperson reportedly worked closely with Prime Minister’s Office despite failing security clearance. https://lnk.sk/bthu
- Some of the suspects in the ongoing investigation into the alleged leak of classified documents from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office could face up to 15 years in prison. https://lnk.sk/vyu9
———
IRAN 🇮🇷 IRAQ 🇮🇶 ⏳ ISRAEL 🇮🇱
- Iranis is planning a complex attack on Israel, which may include missiles with high-powered warheads, according to a Monday Wall Street Journal report, citing Arab and Iranian officials. https://lnk.sk/xqw9
- A senior member of the Shia militias in Iraq told the Qatari newspaper Al-Arabi Al-Jadid: We have decided to escalate the attacks against targets in Israel using high-quality drones and missiles.
- Within a month: Iran executed 166 people, marking the highest monthly figure in over 20 years. Due to executing a duel German-Iranian, Germany has withdrawn it’s embassies and is closing Iran’s in Germany https://lnk.sk/hph1
- Arvin Nathaniel Ghahremani a twenty-year-old Iranian Jewish man, was executed in the Islamic Republic of Iran on Monday morning, Iran Human Rights and Israeli media reported https://lnk.sk/xqw9
———
HEZBOLLAH IN LEBANON 🇱🇧
- Visiting border, PM vows to restore security in north ‘with or without an agreement’. Netanyahu says ‘enforcement’ needed to push Hezbollah back across Litani River, as unnamed Israeli official says diplomatic deal could be reached in next two weeks https://lnk.sk/hyk4
- Israeli Air Force jets have struck and killed Abu Ali Rida, the Hezbollah commander of the Baraachit area in southern Lebanon. He was responsible for planning and carrying out rocket and anti-tank missile attacks on IDF troops and commanded terror activities by Hezbollah operatives in that area. https://lnk.sk/sxxy
———
SAMARIA & JUDEA (tzv. Západný breh), GAZA
- Settlers allegedly raided the West Bank city of Al-Bireh overnight and set around 15 vehicles on fire, Palestinian media reports. Some of the cars reportedly belong to Palestinian Authority officials, and ones of them belongs to a Jordanian medical delegation, the reports say. https://lnk.sk/isuj
———
UNRWA 🇺🇳
- Israel officially informed the UN about withdrawing from the 1967 agreement recognizing Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA. “UNRWA — the organization whose employees participated in the October 7th massacre and many of whose employees are Hamas operatives — is part of the problem in the Gaza Strip and not part of the solution,” says Foreign Minister Israel Katz. https://lnk.sk/gdjx
Sources: Jerusalem Post, Wall Street Journal, Times of Israel, server Iran International and the sources cited directly in some reports
©️ ICEJ Slovakia; peter.svec@icej.sk