RETURN AGREEMENT 7️⃣3️⃣ HOSTAGES 🎗️Day 500/

• Hostages’ families mark 500th day of captivity with fast, rallies across Israel. Activists block roads, march to Knesset, call for 500-minute fast to mark days since hostages’ abduction; ‘They’ve already been fasting for 500 days,’ says relative https://lnk.sk/yz89 
• US Middle East Envoy Steve Witkoff informed Egypt that negotiations for phase two of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas have begun https://lnk.sk/agzl 
• 1,135 Arab convicts have been released so far, 460 convicted mass murderers with 40-60% (per Shin Bet statistics) likely to murder again https://x.com/IsraelRealtime/status/1891212155355037937; https://lnk.sk/apar                                                                                                                                                          

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

• The humanitarian aid that entered the Gaza Strip at the beginning of 2024 reached Hamas leaders instead of Gaza citizens, according to recordings of communications between Hamas operatives revealed by Channel 12 on Sunday https://lnk.sk/xwad 
• Hamas terrorists in messages to the State of Israel: „We will emerge from the earth to continue fighting until liberation https://x.com/sabra_the/status/1891214629361111494
• The EU plans to tell Israel next week that Palestinians uprooted from their Gaza homes should be ensured a dignified return and that Europe will contribute to rebuilding the shattered territory.
• The IDF launched a large-scale arrest operation in an Arab village of Al Arub, south of Efrat in the West Bank, during an operation overnight between Sunday and Monday https://lnk.sk/wbdr

ISRAEL 🇮🇱 / 

• „Israel has never been as strong as it is now… and the Jewish people have never been as strong as they are now,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s said at the conference of the presidents of the largest Jewish organisations in the United States (video) https://fb.watch/xOSJqVEodB/ 
• US State Secretary Marco Rubio: Hamas cannot remain a ruling or military force in the Gaza Strip. Hamas must be eliminated https://lnk.sk/fnue 
• Netanyahu: „Trump and I have full cooperation – including a strategy for when the gates of hell will open” https://lnk.sk/glqc 
• Marco Rubio: „I want to convey to the people of this great country, for all that you have been through and will go through – you are an extraordinary country. You rose from the ashes of a low moment in the history of humanity. https://lnk.sk/rugn 
• US Secretary of State Marco Rubio visited Yad Vashem in Jerusalem along with Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar and Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan, the Department of State announced in a statement on Sunday. https://lnk.sk/hpew 

IRAN 🇮🇷 /

• According to Iranian news agencies, Lebanon has told Iran that its flights to Beirut are suspended until February 18 https://lnk.sk/mio5 

LEBANON 🇱🇧 /

• Hezbollah is calling for a comprehensive investigation into the Lebanese army’s attacks on „peaceful protesters“ on the Namat Road in Beirut in recent days https://lnk.sk/dsj1 
• An Israeli drone strike on a car in the coastal Lebanese city of Sidon on Monday morning killed a senior commander in the Hamas terror group https://lnk.sk/lwhp 
• Israel is planning on withdrawing from Lebanon tomorrow; However, Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer has previously said the IDF will stay in five strategic locations in Lebanon’s south. “We will attack every threat we see, and we will make sure that Hezbollah does not evade and does not receive funding from Iran… It just will not happen.” https://lnk.sk/qm68 
• US administration: the amount of time it will allow Israel to remain in those points will be conditioned on the actions undertaken by the Lebanese government. https://lnk.sk/sxmn 

EGYPT 🇪🇬/

• Mostafa Bakry, a member of the People’s Assembly of Egypt, said they could take Tel Aviv in 24 hours. Almost 30% of the Egyptian army is ‘training’ in the Sinai. https://lnk.sk/knmr

SYRIA 🇸🇾 /

• Syrian President Ahmed al-Shara’a has ordered his forces to combat all attempts to smuggle weapons to Hezbollah through Syrian territory. https://lnk.sk/elce 

ESTONIA 🇪🇪 /

Israel is doing more to support Ukraine than it gets credit for, Estonian President Alar Karis told after two date visit to Israel https://lnk.sk/ybnz  

GERMANY 🇩🇪 /

• Berlin Jewish community hides identity over fears of antisemitism https://lnk.sk/hjjw

AUSTRALIA 🇦🇺 /

• Police have allegedly found a vial of morphine of in the personal locker of one of the nurses who went on an anti-Israel rant and threatened to kill Israelis https://lnk.sk/xaq5 

Sources: Newsrael, Walla, Middle East Eye, The Hindu, Reuters, The Jerusalem Post, 7NEWS Australia 

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