🇬🇧 Monday 07/07/2025 🇮🇱

5️⃣0️⃣ HOSTAGES 🎗️ Day 640 still held captive in Gaza, with no interventions from the Red Cross or the Palestinian Red Crescent /

  • Ditza Or, the mother of Avinatan Or, still held hostage by Hamas in Gaza, issued a strong statement opposing what she calls a “surrender deal” and called on the Israeli government to pursue a decisive victory rather than negotiate. https://lnk.sk/jvyi2 

USA 🇺🇸 ISRAEL 🇮🇱 /

  • Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump have no public appearances scheduled for today. Even Netanyahu’s arrival at the White House at 6:30 p.m. local time (1:30 a.m. Israel time) will be closed to press, according to the White House schedule. 
  • Before Trump, Netanyahu is slated to meet with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. … On Wednesday, he is hosting a gala for Jewish and Evangelical leaders. https://sdu.sk/5oQT
  • US President Donald Trump said Sunday that there was a “good chance” of reaching a hostage deal with Hamas “during the week,” a day ahead of his meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…
  • …Netanyahu said that “we are working to reach this deal under the terms we have agreed to” and stressed that, ultimately, Hamas would be destroyed in Gaza. https://lnk.sk/kwiq2                                                                                

IRAN 🇮🇷 / 

  • Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian claimed that Israel attempted to assassinate him. Speaking with Tucker Carlson Pezeshkian said, “They tried, but they failed.” https://lnk.sk/uxry4 

GAZA / 

  • ‚Security situation has completely collapsed‘: Hamas has lost 80% of its control over Gaza- report. “Let’s be realistic here, there’s barely anything left of the security structure. Most of the leadership, about 95%, are now dead,” the Hamas official told the BBC.“ https://sdu.sk/J2Ai 
  • ‚No stopping a civil war against Hamas,‘ Gaza militia chief Abu Shabab tells. This follows an earlier interview with Army Radio, where Abu Shabab denied working with Israel but added that he hadn’t ruled out cooperating with the IDF on aid distribution in the future https://sdu.sk/TAQ 
  • Israel announced on Sunday that Ramzi Ramadan Abd Ali Salah, the commander of Hamas’s naval force in northern Gaza, was killed in an airstrike last Monday in Gaza City https://lnk.sk/dg456 
  • GHF presents $2 billion voluntary camp proposal aimed at aiding civilians, curbing Hamas control, and laying groundwork for long-term reconstruction in Gaza. https://lnk.sk/cizs4 

ISRAEL 🇮🇱 / 

  • Lapid says he hopes Netanyahu will end war with full hostage deal, slams efforts to pass Haredi ‘draft evasion law’ https://lnk.sk/wdjq5 
  • “We are not considering joining the coalition,” Blue and White-National Unity leader Benny Gantz said. „Israeli public wants ‘real’ Haredi conscription, not law being pushed by coalition“ https://lnk.sk/kmbh3 
  • Israel’s Interior Minister revoked the visa of American anti-Zionist Rabbi and prominent figure in the Neturei Karta Mr. Yisroel Dovid Weiss and banned him from entering Israel after his meeting with Iran’s Foreign Minister.

HOUTHI in YEMEN 🇾🇪 / 

  • Israel carried out extensive strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen overnight Sunday-Monday, shortly after it issued evacuation orders for several areas of the country. Hours later, the Houthis launched two ballistic missiles at Israel https://lnk.sk/qymq6 

SYRIA 🇸🇾 /

  • Syria says willing to return to 1974 border deal with Israel. The U.S. envoy for Syria said this week that Jerusalem and Damascus are engaged in “meaningful” talks to restore calm to the shared border region. https://lnk.sk/nhjqs 

LEBANON 🇱🇧 /

  • U.S. special envoy Thomas Barrack said on Monday that he was „unbelievably satisfied“ with the Lebanese government’s reply to an American proposal on how to disarm Hezbollah, which had signaled in recent days that it would not give up all its arms. https://lnk.sk/nvyw9 

GREAT BRITAIN 🇬🇧 / 

  • ‚Riverway to the Sea‘: British law firm representing Hamas renames itself, vows death to Zionism https://sdu.sk/tcp 

GOOD NEWS 🎤🎶 /

  • Italy and Germany have threatened to withdraw from the Eurovision Song Contest if Israel is excluded https://lnk.sk/fltr4

Resources: Jerusalem Post, BBC, KAN News, Israel Hayom, Open Source, Israel National News, Israel Today, Times of Israel, Haaretz and Ynet News 

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