HOSTAGES🎗️
- Hamas rejected America’s “bridging proposal” to finalize a Gaza hostage and ceasefire deal, as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken landed in Israel Sunday night
- US president Biden says Gaza ceasefire deal ‘still possible’ and ‘we’re not giving up’
- “This is a decisive moment,” Antony Blinken said as he met with President Isaac Herzog in Jerusalem Monday morning: “This could be the last possible moment to return the remaining 115 hostages in Gaza”
- Egyptian authorities announced today to agree to Israel’s demand not to set a timetable for the IDF’s withdrawal from the Philadelphi Corridor as a a precondition for a ceasefire-prisoner swap deal
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ISRAEL 🇮🇱 LEBANON 🇱🇧 GAZA, JUDEA & SAMARIA (so called West bank)
- Sunday night explosion in Tel Aviv was a failed terrorist attack carried out via a powerful explosive device…
- …“It was a miracle that it did not explode in the nearest synagogue or in the shopping center,” said police
- The Hamas terror group claims responsibility for yesterday’s intended bombing attack in Tel Aviv.
- Earlier on Monday, Israeli media reported there were several casualties to varying degrees from a direct aerial hit in the Western Galilee community
- Deputy Head of Hezbollah, Naim Kassem, told the Iranian Al-Quds network: „In the coming days we will increase the attacks on Israel and they will penetrate deep into Israel.”
- Prolonged Gaza war hits Israeli economy with substantial slowdown
- Gaza’s polio vaccination rate hits 90% with 282,000 vials distributed
- Palestinian Authority announces plans for Abbas and leadership to visit Gaza
- Netanyahu and Smotrich hold budget talks for 2025 amid war efforts
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IRAN 🇮🇷
- Islamic Republic has a „legal right to punish Israel at the appropriate time” Irans Foreign Ministry said
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USA 🇺🇸
- Kamala Harris arrives in Chicago to star at Democratic convention
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UNITED KINGDOM 🇬🇧 GERMANY 🇩🇪
- A highly extreme Muslim imam, praised by the BBC as a „highly respected,“ religious leader has sparked outrage for supporting the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel while also making inflammatory statements in a recent interview
- Lufthansa has announced it is cancelling its flights to Israel until August 26
Sources: The Jerusalem Post, Israle Realtime, Wall Street Journal, Lebanon’s Al-Akhbar newspaper, Times of Israel, KAN News