5️⃣9️⃣ HOSTAGES 🎗️ Day 514 still in captivity in inhumane conditions in Gaza /

• Israeli officials told that they are giving Hamas a few days to reach an agreement on the release of additional hostages. „If we see that the negotiations are not being conducted in good faith, we will return to fighting in Gaza.“ https://lnk.sk/duk6
• Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel “has accepted President Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff’s plan to extend the temporary ceasefire by 50 days. https://lnk.sk/ptyp 
• Hamas will no longer receive “free lunches,” Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu declared on Sunday, threatening further consequences if the terrorist group refuses to release hostages. https://lnk.sk/kwal 
• Netanyahu apologizes to recently freed hostage Eli Sharabi for failing to free him earlier. https://lnk.sk/jen8                                                                                                                                             

GAZA / 

• Hamas will not agree to extend the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire deal as requested by Israel. https://lnk.sk/fni8 
• Israel would not allow any more goods to enter Gaza over what it called Hamas’s refusal to accept a proposal to extend the expiring initial stage of the ceasefire and hostage release deal, and threatened “additional consequences” and a return to war. https://lnk.sk/nisy 
• Israel stopped letting goods into Gaza “because Hamas steals the supplies and prevents the people of Gaza from getting them. It uses these supplies to finance its terror machine,” Netanyahu said https://lnk.sk/ptyp  
• The EU condemns the refusal of Hamas to accept the extension of the first phase of the ceasefire agreement in Gaza. Israel’s subsequent decision to block the entry of all humanitarian aid into Gaza could potentially result in humanitarian consequences. (So, EU demands Israel continue to feed Hamas) https://lnk.sk/efsf 
• Israeli NGO’s, mostly left-wing organizations filed an urgent petition with the High Court of Justice, demanding an interim order that would prevent the government and the army from stopping humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip https://lnk.sk/czdo
• Incoming Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir arrived at the Southern Command and demanded to review offensive plans if Israel is required to resume fighting.  During the review, he criticized its details, including that it was „not offensive enough,“ and instructed that a new one be prepared, in which significant values ​​such as victory and the destruction of the enemy would be expressed. https://lnk.sk/gifz 

ISRAEL 🇮🇱/

• Man killed in Haifa terror stabbing attack; 3 seriously injured, 1 moderately wounded; terrorist, killed on scene, was an Israeli Druze citizen with German citizenship https://lnk.sk/jen8 ; https://lnk.sk/oxfu 
• General Eyal Zamir takes command on Wednesday. As opposed to past handovers, simple ceremonies are planned. 
• Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial testimony began anew on Monday morning, with a fourteenth hearing at the Tel Aviv District Courthouse. https://lnk.sk/cmyi
• Beersheba resident arrested on suspicion of espionage for Iran; an indictment was filed against Doron Bokobza after he claimed to have access to Israel’s nuclear research compound and filmed sensitive facilities https://lnk.sk/fwn0

JUDEA&SAMARIA (so-called West Bank) / 

• PA security forces storm the village of Burqua, east of Ramallah, and remove a Hama flag at the entrance to the village https://x.com/ferozwala/status/1895817334281154798 

RUSSIA 🇷🇺 /

• The Kremlin is signalling its approval of US President Donald Trump‚s decisive foreign policy shift towards more open relations with Russia after Trump’s public spat with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenksy. https://lnk.sk/mbq4  
• Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov: Zelensky is a ‚pure Nazi‘ and a ‘traitor to the Jewish people’. Lavrov calls Zelenskyy a „traitor to the Jewish people“ and accuses him of „nazifying“ Kyiv in a fiery media interview. https://lnk.sk/ude9 

IRAN 🇮🇷 /

• President Masoud Pezeshkian affirmed that dialogue with the Trump administration would be the „best option“ for Iran, despite the firm rejection of such talks by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. https://lnk.sk/qwk6
• Iranian Vice President for Strategic Affairs Mohammad Javad Zarif has stepped down on the „advice“ of the country’s judiciary chief, Gholam Hossein Mohseni-Ejei. https://lnk.sk/sbpy 

Resources: Israel Realtime, New York Times, Times of Israel, Jerusalem Post, Newsrael, Shafaq News  

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