Israel News Sunday December 7

 Day 793

- Hamas's military wing resumed this morning the search for the body of officer Ran Goyeli in the Zeitoun neighborhood, accompanied by a Red Cross team.

- Israel to mediators: Hamas knows where body of last hostage is-Israel sends message to mediators, stressing that Hamas, Islamic Jihad, know where the body of Yasam officer Ran Gvili is located, and that Hamas can access it

- After Trump’s statement on moving to Phase Two, the family of fallen hostage Rani Gviali said Phase One is not complete until Rani is brought home. They called on Netanyahu and Trump to pressure Hamas and Islamic Jihad to return him immediately.

- In Gaza, reports of IDF tank fire near the Morg axis, north of Rafah

- Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani said Saturday that Doha does not consider the current situation in Gaza to be a ceasefire, until a Israeli withdrawal from the entirety of Gaza 

- PM Netanyahu: I will talk with President Trump about the next stage in Gaza in a meeting with him at the end of the month

-US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz will visit Israel and Jordan in the next 4 days as part of the Trump administration's push to implement the 20-point plan, the US mission to the UN announced.

- PM Netanyahu to Chancellor Merz: The first phase is almost over. We hope to move on to the second phase soon, which will be more challenging.

- The German Chancellor publishes on X after the visit to Yad Vashem: "I bow my head before six million men, women, and children from all over Europe who the Germans murdered because they were Jews."

- During recent raids in southern Lebanon, the IDF says it demolished a Hezbollah tunnel shaft and an arms depot it was “old infrastructures that are no longer active,” the army says.

The IDF says it demolished the sites “to prevent any possibility of future use.”

- The White House is looking to broker a summit between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, Axios reports. While Egypt has played a key role in mediating between Israel and Hamas over Gaza, relations between the two leaders are frosty. 

-Over the weekend, 5 terrorists were eliminated in various incidents in Gaza. Yesterday, an IDF force identified several terrorists carrying suspicious objects approaching the fighters. After identification, the Air Force attacked the terrorists, 2 of them were eliminated. Today, several terrorists who crossed the yellow line were identified - the forces fired at them and eliminated 3. 

-Khaled Mashal, the Hamas leader in Gaza and the most senior figure in the organization today, in a speech that clearly clarified Hamas's intentions for the "day after": 

We must protect the "resistance" project and its weapons (Hamas will not disarm in any way).

We reject all ideas of "delegating authority" to others, the Palestinians are the ones who will govern themselves (Hamas is not willing to accept a strong national force that will control security on their behalf)

We must work to free the prisoners and detainees in the enemy's prisons (Hamas will continue to try to capture Israelis in order to free its own prisoners)

- The President of Syria, Ahmad al-Shara in a speech yesterday:

"Israel's attempt to establish a buffer zone in southern Syria puts us in a dangerous situation. It is Syria who is attacked, Israel has carried out more than 1,000 air strikes and more than 400 ground incursions into our territory in the past year."

"We are insisting on the implementation of the 1974 agreements (the separation of forces agreement, which defines the border and the buffer zone, i.e. a Syrian demand for a complete Israeli withdrawal from the territory)."

- American envoy Tom Barrack:

The story between Iran and Israel is not over yet.

-Lebanon is a completely failed state. . . 

- There is a real need to make progress in order to reach an agreement between Israel and Syria. First, a security agreement, and then steps towards normalization.