Israel News Tuesday Dec 30

Day 817

- Israel and the US agree on a deadline for Hamas disarmament. Trump and Netanyahu set the deadline for two months from now.

- After Trump’s warning of strike, Iran threatens ‘harsh’ response to any attack

Pezeshkian warns against ‘any cruel aggression’ following US president’s remarks alongside Netanyahu that he’d OK new action if Tehran rebuilds nuclear or ballistic missile program

- Iran conducted ballistic missile test in Ilam province

- The data presented to Americans by Netanyahu during the visit: 60,000 Kalashnikovs held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. This data was collected by Military Intelligence and Shin Bet in the days before the Prime Minister's trip to Florida in order to present it to the Americans, and to demand waiting with the rehabilitation of Gaza until its disarmament.

- The gift that Prime Minister Netanyahu gave to President Trump: a US flag inlaid with precious stones mined in the Holy Land by the Holly Gems company.

-Ziv Tzioni, uncle of the abducted fallen soldier Ran Gavili, about his sister Talik's meeting with President Trump: "Immediately after the meeting, she called me quite optimistically, very encouraged by the conversation. I haven't heard her voice sound so pleasant in a long time. There was a clear commitment to bring Rani back, he said, There are surprises, we are completely, completely optimistic that there is great hope and that these things will happen."

- Senior Israeli officials have requested in recent weeks from senior Trump administration officials that Erdoğan not be part of Trump's Peace Council (BOP). Israel is also trying to prevent a significant role for Turkey in the humanitarian issue and reconstruction in the Gaza Strip. The mediating countries and senior administration officials want Turkey to take part in the peace council to be announced next month - we will get the answer only in a few weeks - I24

- Several IDF soldiers have received punishments after entering a Palestinian village in the central West Bank without authorization and vandalizing vehicles, the military said Tuesday. According to the IDF, a force from the Paratroopers Brigade entered the village of Deir Dibwan, east of Ramallah, on Saturday in violation of procedures. During the incident, soldiers damaged Palestinian vehicles “in a manner that deviated from regulations, orders, and what is expected of IDF soldiers and service members.”

- President Isaac Herzog criticizes the government’s establishment of a politically controlled October 7 probe, reiterating his call for a state commission of inquiry into the failures surrounding the Hamas attack.

- US President Donald Trump and his top aides expressed concern over several Israeli policies in the West Bank during their meetings Monday. Trump and his senior advisers took particular issue with unchecked settler violence, settlement expansion and Israel’s withholding of several billion dollars in Palestinian Authority tax revenues, which has brought the Ramallah-based government to the brink of collapse, the US official said, confirming a report on the Axios news site.