1️⃣0️⃣1️⃣ HOSTAGES 🎗️ GAZA
- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will dispatch Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer to meet U.S. president elect Donald Trump in Washington. One of the primary focus will be discussions on a hostage deal. https://lnk.sk/ndm6
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Netherlands 🇳🇱 Amsterdam
- The Israeli Ministry for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism revealed on Friday that Dutch Authorities ignored three separate warnings of the terror attack against Israelis in Amsterdam. https://lnk.sk/qwh7
- Melhem Asad, dlhoročný fanúšik Maccabi Tel Aviv, ktorý bol na zápase v Amsterdame, sa aktívne zúčastnil na hľadaní a záchrane Židov pred lynčovaním moslimskými teroristami. Melhem je v Izraeli vnímaný aklo skutočný hrdina! https://lnk.sk/pzdu
- Dutch police took away more than 300 pro-Palestinian protesters who ignored a ban on demonstrations in Amsterdam on Sunday. Anti-Israel protesters claimed Sunday: Maccabi soccer fans ‘attacked our city’ https://lnk.sk/gbj3 ; https://lnk.sk/fuhw
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HEZBOLLAH IN LEBANON 🇱🇧
- CEASEFIRE RUMORS says Hezbollah will withdraw its forces north of the Litani river. The IDF will withdraw from Hezbollah’s first line of positions in Lebanon. Lebanese army will destroy the remaining Hezbollah infrastructure in the area between the border and Litani. The agreement will include international guarantees by the US and Russia to prevent the re-arming of Hezbollah in Lebanon. Syria will be responsible for preventing arms transfers from its territory to Lebanon. In any case of violation Israel has the right to act against the violation. Minister Dermer has travelled to Russia and the US to finalize the deal. https://lnk.sk/gmtm
- A Hezbollah commander Salim Ayyash responsible for the assassination of a former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri was killed in a recent Israeli airstrike. Ayyash, who had a $10 million reward from Washington on his head, was a senior member of Hezbollah. https://lnk.sk/bufi
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ISRAEL 🇮🇱 JUDEA & SAMARIA (so-called West Bank)
- Projectile launched from Yemen triggers sirens southwest of Jerusalem shortly before 6:00 a.m.. The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit later said that the IAF intercepted one projectile that approached Israel from the direction of Yemen. https://lnk.sk/qxgl ; https://lnk.sk/mk46
- Overnight, the IDF says it shot down four drones launched at Israel from “the east,” usually code for Iraq. https://lnk.sk/xwdg
- Prime Minister Netanyahu’s legal team has filed a request with the Jerusalem District Court to delay his testimony in his corruption trial by two-and-a-half months, claiming that a series of security incidents that happened during the time given to prepare him for the testimony has made the task “impossible,” Hebrew media outlets reported early Monday. https://lnk.sk/klxk
- Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara is set to tell Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he must fire National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir for repeatedly violating the law while in office unless he changes his mode of conduct, a report said Sunday evening. https://lnk.sk/lvzr
- Security forces overnight removed five buildings that had been set up in the Oz Zion settlement outpost in the West Bank. Oz Zion has been demolished by the government and rebuilt by settlers numerous times in recent years. https://lnk.sk/moql
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USA 🇺🇸
- US President Joe Biden will meet with Israeli President Isaac Herzog in Washington on Tuesday. https://lnk.sk/gghj
- US President-elect Donald Trump has offered New York pro-Israel Rep. Elise Stefanik the position of US ambassador to the United Nations in his new administration. https://lnk.sk/ekll
Sources: CNN, Reuters, Saudi The Al-Arabiya, Israel National News Arutz Sheva, Times of Israel, Israel Realtime and the sources cited directly in some reports
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