Thursday, November 20, 2025

Israel News Thurs Nov 20

Day 776 

- A salvaged mezuzah from the burned home of twins Gali and Ziv Berman of Kibbutz Kfar Aza was presented to President Donald Trump on Thursday, during a White House meeting with 17 captivity survivors, freed about a month ago, who are gathering with the President in the Oval Office.

- President Trump meets with freed Israeli hostages thanks to his peacemaking "You're not a hostage anymore. Today, you're HEROES!" 
 26 former hostages arrived at the White House for a meeting with President Trump, one month after their release from Gaza in the U.S.-brokered ceasefire.

- PM Netanyahu clarifies he will arrive in New York despite Mamdani’s threat that he will arrest him.
 
 IDF: Two senior Hamas members were eliminated, including a terrorist who held Nimrod Cohen and David Cunio captive

- Hamas members, alongside Red Cross representatives, were allowed into the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City earlier today to search for the body of a hostage, according to Palestinian and Arab media reports.

- Qatar warns yesterday’s strikes on Gaza threaten to upend ceasefire agreement

- Hamas terrorists trapped in the tunnel in Rafah have been cut off from communication since last weekend. Security sources estimate that some of them were eliminated following the IDF's recent offensive activities, and that others have been unable to establish contact.

- France agreed to deploy 100 security personnel to Gaza

- Official sources in the US to Reuters: Despite Trump's statements, the F-35 planes to be supplied to Saudi Arabia will have a lower level and capabilities than those provided to Israel, to maintain Israel's relative advantage

- Lebanese Prime Minister, Najib Salam, says his country is ready for negotiations with Israel, and he is interested in American assistance to advance the matter.

- House fires broke out in nine separate buildings in Beersheva overnight, in what officials suspect to be a string of arson incidents throughout the southern city.

- NYT: Huckabee met with ex-spy Jonathan Pollard in Israel, alarming US officials

- US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee brands the latest spate of violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank as “terrorism,” but insists that the perpetrators are a small number and that Israel is dealing with the issue.

- The IAEA Board of Governors approved a decision stating that Iran must update the agency "without delay" regarding the status of its enriched uranium reserves and the nuclear sites that were attacked. 19 member states of the board voted in favor of the decision submitted by the US and the E3 countries

- A delegation of released hostages and their family members met with a bipartisan group of over a dozen US lawmakers on Capitol Hill yesterday to thank them for their efforts to secure the release of Israeli captives from Gaza.

-France calls for Israel to pull out of Syria, expresses concern over Lebanon strikes

- The IDF publishes footage recovered from the camera of a Hamas operative, showing armed members of the terror group operating in an abandoned elementary school in the northern Gaza’s Beit Hanoun.


1 comment:

  1. hamas was defeated Bibi said all else is lies

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