Israel News Friday Nov 8

 Day 763

- The Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group announces that it will hand over the body of a hostage to Israel tonight.The terror group does not identify the hostage.

- Israel Defense Minister Israel Katz: "I have instructed the IDF to destroy and eliminate all terror tunnels in Gaza"

- Turkey issues arrest warrants for Israel’s Netanyahu, Katz, and Ben-Gvir over genocide charges in Gaza. Türkiye's Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office issued arrest warrants Friday for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and 36 other suspects on charges of genocide related to Israel's military operations in Gaza.

-  The international force to enforce the Gaza ceasefire agreement will be deployed "very soon," President Trump said

- The United States and Israel accuse Iran of plotting to assassinate Israel’s ambassador to Mexico, Einat Kranz-Neiger, but say the threat is over. Mexican security services foiled the plot, US and Israeli officials tell Axios. A US official says that the Islamic Revolutionary Guards’ elite Quds Force initiated the plot in late 2024 and that it was disrupted this year. Axios reports it was led by an operative from the IRGC’s Unit 11000, who spent years at Iran’s embassy in Venezuela recruiting Iranian agents from across Latin America. “The plot was contained and does not pose a current threat,” a US official tells AFP on condition of anonymity.

- Trump: "Iran asked the US to remove the sanctions imposed on them"

- CENTCOM commander, Admiral Brad Cooper, salutes the grave of IDF Captain Omer Nautra, of blessed memory, who was returned from Hamas captivity, and delivered a eulogy at the military funeral.

- Recently freed hostage Rom Braslavski, who was held by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group in Gaza for 738 days, was so severely beaten by his captors that he begged them to let him starve to death instead, he recounted in his first interview with Israeli television following his release last month. 

In the 50-minute interview with Channel 13’s “Hazinor” program, aired on Thursday night, Braslavski opened up about his experiences, starting from the moment of his abduction from the Nova music festival on October 7, 2023, where he had been working as a security guard when swarms of Hamas-led terrorists stormed the music festival near the Gaza border, killing 364 people and taking dozens more hostage.

“It was the first time I’d ever seen a dead body,” he told Channel 13, recounting how he stumbled across the bloodied bodies of two young women, both dressed in festival clothing, as he tried to escape the invading terrorists, to no avail.