Day 842
- PM’s Office: Israel has agreed to open the Rafah crossing for pedestrian access only, with full Israeli security supervision. The opening of the crossing is conditioned on a “100% effort” by Hamas to return all fallen hostages still in Gaza.
- Israeli sources confirmed to IDF Radio that IDF forces are currently conducting searches for the body of hostage Ran Gvili Z"L in the Zeitoun neighborhood in eastern Gaza City. These searches are "based on intelligence information received."
spokesperson of the military wing of Hamas: "Israel is currently conducting a search for the body of hostage Ran Gvili at a specific location, based on information provided by the military wing of Hamas in order to conclude the matter."
-Witkoff and Kushner meet Netanyahu as US seeks to advance its Gaza peace plan
Israeli official said to slam Witkoff as ‘lobbyist for Qatar’ amid spat with US over Rafah crossing.
- Family of last hostage says 2nd phase mustn’t start before his body is returned.
Gvili’s family expressed concern that pressure was being directed at Israel to move forward with the ceasefire plan, rather than on Hamas to return the hostage’s body.
“President Donald Trump himself said this week in Davos that Hamas knows where our son is. We wonder why the pressure is being directed at the wrong place. The pressure should not be on the Israeli government to continue to fulfill its part of the agreement while Hamas is deceiving the entire world and refusing to return the last kidnapped person, in accordance with the agreement it signed,” the family said in a statement.
- The IDF says it carried out an airstrike against a Hezbollah operative in the southern Lebanon town of Bazouriye, close to Tyre.
- Thousands across Israel protest against government, demand return of Ran Gvili’s body
- The Israeli Air Force struck and killed several Palestinian terror operatives who crossed the ceasefire line and planted explosives near troops in the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday, the military said.
- Israeli officials estimate: It is becoming increasingly clear that the night of January 8th on the streets of Iran was the deadliest in the history of the Islamic Republic and one of the deadliest in the world in the last generation.
The regime murdered thousands that night, and quite possibly tens of thousands.
It was a massacre on a scale that is hard to imagine. -Amit Segal (Channel 12).
-According to Israel Hayom, most of Donald Trump’s advisers support an attack on Iran, with Vice President Vance also backing a military option. Only Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff are reported to oppose such action.
- The Israeli army is on high alert in anticipation of preemptive Iranian strikes, amid assumptions that Trump may have issued orders to strike Tehran."
- "A meeting between the leadership of the U.S. Central Command and the Israeli army to coordinate defense against any potential Iranian response."
- Israel continues to back Gazan militias even after the October ceasefire to fight Hamas in portions of the Strip under the terror group's control over the Yellow Line, the Wall Street Journal has reported.
- Talik and Itzik, Ran Guili's parents, addressed the US government representatives from the stage at the rally in Meitar last night
"We want to send a message to Witkoff, Kushner and Trump: deals need to be completed."Not all efforts have been made to bring Rani home. The fear is that the Rafah crossing will open, and the second phase will continue without Rani returning home."
- A senior Israeli official told Ynet that “Witkoff pushed to bring our greatest rival, Turkey, to the border,” warning that “the clock is ticking backward toward a confrontation with Turkey that would pose a real danger to our security,” and accused him of acting as “a lobbyist for Qatar’s interests.”
- IDF completes demolition of four-kilometer tunnel on Israel-controlled side of Gaza's Yellow LineThe underground tunnel, which was destroyed along with troops from the Yahalom unit, reportedly contained weapons and several rooms.
-Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem warned of a major US-led confrontation, citing Israel and what he called Zionist aggression,
"to conclude the matter" since Hamas has no intention of giving up their weapons and or disbanding, per President Trump's twenty point plan, which even Hamas agreed to
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