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Hostages 🎗️
• Delegations are in Qatar for a „last-ditch attempt“ to secure a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas
• Israel sended high-level team, Hamas is not participating, Hamas leaders are unable to contact Sinwar!
• Who is there: CIA Director, Qatari Prime Minister, Director of Mossad, Director of Egyptian Intelligence
• Israel estimates only 33 hostages remain alive – what Israel will offer in return remains unknown
• Senior U.S. Officials Say Israeli Army Achieved All It Can in Gaza, Only Cease-fire Deal Will Free Hostages
• The US, German and British ambassadors in a joint statement: „Our first priority is to find a solution to free the abductees and do it now.”
• The Iranians officially announced yesterday that they are not involved in the talks. An Arab source reveals, the Iranians are involved behind the scenes
• Hamas: we asked to add Russia and Turkey as mediators, Israel refused
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Iran 🇮🇷
• Additionally, power outages have been reported in Tehran and other cities, particularly in western Iran
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Lebanon 🇱🇧
• IDF drone strike kills 2 Hezbollah members amid repeated rocket attacks from Lebanon
• 5 rockets fired from Lebanon at north; rocket strikes open area near Kissufim
• A Lebanese official after meeting Amos Hochstein: “He acted like someone who came to have a PR party.”
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Gaza, Judea & Samaria (so called West Bank)
• 2 rounds of a Hamas rockets fired at Kissufim, near Gaza
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Israel 🇮🇱
• IDF strikes over 30 Hamas sites in Gaza as hostage talks set to restart in Doha
• Israeli cabinet is scheduled to convene on Thursday evening at the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv…
• …the cabinet meeting is supposed to occur at the same time as the hostage negotiation talks in Doha
• The Jerusalem Post: The US revealed to Iran the names of Mossad agents who were involved in the elimination of Hamas leader Haniye, in an attempt to calm tensions
• Today Israel facilitated the transfer of 11 Gazan children to Jordan for medical treatment
• Bennett calls for ‘all the senior leadership, political and military, to be replaced’
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USA 🇺🇸
• Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump spoke on the phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, discussed the Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal
• The Harris 2024 campaign has appointed Nasrina Bargzie as a new outreach leader to engage Muslim and Arab voters – she has dismissed Jewish students‘ concerns over antisemitism as “organized legal bullying.”
• Pro-Palestinian protestors invade Kamala Harris event, throw smoke bombs
• Columbia president resigns, citing toll of controversy over pro-Palestinian protest
• ‚Epicenter for virulent antisemitism‘: U.S. House Speaker welcomes resignation of Columbia president
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Turkey🇹🇷
• Erdogan tells Abbas: ‚Turkey will continue to support the Palestinians.’
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Canada 🇨🇦
• … Revokes Charity Status of Jewish Nonprofits Supporting Israel
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Sources: Israel Realtime, The Jerusalem Post, Ha’aretz, Axios and Times of Israel
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