ISRAEL 🇮🇱 /

• A terrible terror attacked has been thwarted tonight. A woman alerted the bus driver of a suspicious object in the bus. The driver removed the passengers and drove to the bus parking where it exploded several minutes later. If this bus had exploded tomorrow instead of tonight, police say, hundreds of Israeli civilians, children, women and the elderly would have been burned alive. We all need to thank God for this miracle! https://lnk.sk/burv 
• Israel Police and the Shin Bet security agency were said on Friday to have detained two Jewish Israelis and a Palestinian in connection with explosions on three buses in central Israel Thursday night, as the IDF bolstered operations in the West Bank following what is thought to have been a narrowly averted large-scale terror attack. 

7️⃣0️⃣ HOSTAGES 🎗️ Day 504 still in captivity in inhumane conditions in Gaza /

• Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Friday to take action to secure the return of Shiri Bibas, accusing Hamas of deceiving Israel by sending the body of a Gazan woman instead. “Hamas placed a Gazan woman’s body in the coffin and will pay dearly for this cruel violation of the agreement,” Netanyahu said. https://lnk.sk/uqv2 
• Deputy Foreign Minister of Israel Sharren Haskel responds to Hamas‘ presentation of an anonymous body as that of Shiri Bibas, says Hamas is ‚a death cult that needs to be eradicated from the face of the Earth.’ https://lnk.sk/tucz 
• Although Israel views Hamas‘ failure to return the body of Shiri Bibas as a serious violation of the cease-fire agreement, the IDF stated on Friday that the next scheduled hostage release on Saturday „will take place as planned.“https://lnk.sk/lzf9 
• The UN Secretary-General on Thursday condemned the “parading” of coffins earlier in the day containing the bodies of dead Israeli hostages by their Hamas captors, describing the manner of the handover in Gaza as abhorrent. The issue of Shira Bibas not released from Gaza has not yet been addressed by the UN. https://lnk.sk/xes9 
• United States Envoy for Hostages Adam Boehler responds harshly to Hamas‘ decision to return an anonymous body instead of that of hostages Shiri Bibas, warns, ‚they’re going to face total annihilation right now‘ if they don’t release hostages. https://lnk.sk/fugp
• The IDF says the terrorists who held children Ariel and Kfir Bibas captive in Gaza murdered them “with their bare hands” weeks after their kidnapping on Oct. 7, 2023. https://lnk.sk/memu                                                                                                                                                        

GAZA, JUDEA&SAMARIA (so-called West Bank) /

• Following the attempted bus bombings, enemy sources report a large incursion of IDF vehicles into Tulkarm Samaria Arab city
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LEBANON 🇱🇧 /

• Lebanon’s Hezbollah will bury its former leader Hassan Nasrallah on Sunday nearly five months after he was killed in an Israeli airstrike, in a mass funeral aimed at showing political strength after the group emerged badly weakened from last year’s war https://lnk.sk/gomt 

USA 🇺🇸 /

• American conservatives vote to back Israeli sovereignty over Judea & Samaria. ‘Akin to the Balfour Declaration’ – Conservative Political Action Conference, America’s largest annual gathering of political conservatives, votes to endorse Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria. https://lnk.sk/bqdm

EGYPT 🇪🇬 /

• Former editor-in-chief of Egypt’s Al-Ahram newspaper Osama Saraya said that Iran must be held accountable for “what it committed in the Middle East.” “Religious fundamentalism and militias destroyed the Arab World.” https://lnk.sk/txcz 

YEMEN🇾🇪

• Yemeni minister calls for arrest of Houthi officials attending Hezbollah chief Nasrallah’s funeral. https://lnk.sk/exoz

Resources: Ynetnews, UN News, Israel National News, Reuters, Middle East Eye, Times of Israel, Israel National News, Newsrael, Jerusalem Post

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