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HOSTAGES🎗️
• IDF confirms that it has recovered the bodies of six Israeli hostages during an overnight operation in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip
– US Secretary Blinken: Israel accepts bridging hostage proposal, Hamas must also do so
• After three-hour Blinken meeting, Netanyahu says Israel backs new US hostage proposal
• Israel stood firm that the IDF will physically remain on the Philadelphi Corridor to prevent the resupply of Hamas’s deadly weapons
• Sinwar believes the negotiations are “a bluff” meant to grant Israel further time to continue its military offensive
• Russia Today (a notorious propaganda channel): according to Hamas and Iran officials, Sinwar’s cancer returned
• The Israeli negotiation team returned from Cairo on Monday with no clear progress
• Mosab Yousef, the son of the founder of the Hamas: cease-fire is impossible as long as the Ayatollah of Iran remains in power
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ISRAEL 🇮🇱 LEBANON 🇱🇧 GAZA, JUDEA & SAMARIA (so called West bank)
• IDF chief of staff Hertzi Halevi (in closed conversations): if there is a pause of the war for a few weeks, he will resign
• Israel strikes Hezbollah weapons depots deep in Lebanon (causing massive secondary explosions) after deadly drone attack
• Israeli army officer killed, six soldiers wounded from failed Israeli airstrike in Gaza’s Khan Younis
• An underground tunnel of about 1.5 kilometers was destroyed in Khan Yunis by the IDF
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USA 🇺🇸
• Democrats endorse platform that declares ‘ironclad’ backing for Israel’s security
• ‘Democratic National Convention (DNC) represents genocide and war‘: protests in Chicago try to grab spotlight
• Family members of eight American hostages will attend the DNC in Chicago
• Most students at Columbia University who faced disciplinary action in pro-Palestinian protests, will soon return to campus
Sources: Ha’aretz, The Jerusalem Post, The Wall Street Journal, Israel Realtime and Times of Israel