Israel News Wed Jan 21

 Day 838

- Trump: "There are some little situations like Hamas... we're going to know over the next 2 or 3 days, certainly over the next 3 weeks, whether or not they're going to [disarm]. If they don't do it, they'll be blown away very quickly."

- Trump says ‘we think we know’ location of Ran Gvili, the last hostage in Gaza

Gvili’s parents, Itzik and Talik, responded that in light of Trump’s remarks, the US and Israel must apply all possible pressure to ensure that Hamas returns their son: US president’s remarks show Hamas ‘deliberately violated’ ceasefire by not returning all captives

 - Palestinian media reports three dead and several wounded in an Israeli airstrike targeting a vehicle in the al-Zahra area of the central Gaza Strip.

- US President Donald Trump said that if Iran attempts to assassinate him, he would make the "order to wipe it off the face of this Earth

-Former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot said Israel should resume fighting in Gaza and dismantle Hamas’s military capabilities, accusing Prime Minister Netanyahu of failing to turn military gains into a diplomatic outcome or achieve the goal of destroying Hamas’s governing and military power.

- The IDF says it carried out two airstrikes in southern Lebanon targeting Hezbollah operatives near Sidon and Tyre, with no immediate reports of casualties.

- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accepted US President Donald Trump’s invitation to join the Board of Peace, the premier’s office announced Wednesday, as Sweden and Norway became the latest nations to say they would not be joining, and Spain said European leaders were working to consolidate a common position.

- US President Donald Trump is continuing to push his aides to devise what he calls “decisive” military options against Iran, The Wall Street Journal reported.