🇺🇸🇵🇸🇮🇱🕊 — US President-elect Donald Trump in an interview with NBC:

➡️It would be very good (for the hostage deal and the ceasefire in Gaza) to hold up.

➡️Trump noted that he told Netanyahu to continue doing what he has to do in Gaza and emphasized that he told him "we want this to end. It has to end."

➡️Trump said he would meet with Netanyahu soon but did not say when

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇵🇸🕊 — 📰 Israeli journalist Barak Ravid:

President Trump's National Security Advisor Mike Walz met today in Washington with representatives of American and Israeli abductee families and stressed to them that the Trump administration is committed to implementing the entire abductee deal and the ceasefire in Gaza in all its phases, according to three sources who attended the meeting.

🔗Barak Ravid

🔒🇵🇸🕊 — Three out of six Gilboa prison breakers, who have previously managed to prison break after digging a tunnel at Israel’s high-security prison in 2021, will be part of the first phase of a prisoner exchange deal, set to begin Sunday.

➡️The excavation back then was done with plates and pan handles, and dumped the excavated dirt in the prison's sewer system, garbage cans, and hollow shafts, and it took approximately one year to dig the tunnel.

🔗Gilboa Prison break

🇵🇸🇵🇸 — Abu Obaida, spokeman of Alqassam (Hamas military wing) promised in a speech in 2021 following the re-arrest of the 6 prison breakers, that they'll be getting their freedom soon in a new exchange deal.

Four years later, 3 of them are said to be released tomorrow

🇺🇸🇺🇸 — NATO's European partners are divided over Trump's proposal to increase defense spending to 5% of GDP.

➡️Poland believes it is achievable, but many other European countries argue that such a figure would place significant financial strain on them.

➡️Trump has warned that if NATO members fail to meet this target, the United States might withdraw from the alliance. However, European nations acknowledge that if the U.S. were to leave NATO, they would still be compelled to increase defense spending to that level to ensure their own security.

🇮🇱 — IDF Spokesperson:

Following the alerts that were activated at 09:00 in Sderot, this is a false identification.

🇮🇱🇮🇱❌🇵🇸 — 7 killed and dozens injured in various parts of Gaza after Israeli shelling despite the entry into the ceasefire exactly 1 hour ago.

⚡️🇮🇱❌🇵🇸 - Numerous airstrikes on northern Gaza, despite the entry into ceasefire hours ago.

The IDF is attempting to target parading AlQassam convoys.

⚡️🇵🇸🇮🇱 - Eerie silence across the Gaza Strip, the ceasefire has come into effect.

🇮🇱❌🇮🇱 — Ben Gvir's party has resigned, the resignation headline was titled:

The end of our path in government due to "surrendering to terrorism"

🇶🇦🇮🇱🇵🇸🕊 — Qatari Foreign Ministry:

The hostages are Israelis, one of whom holds Romanian citizenship and the other British, and thus the ceasefire began.

📝The names of the Israeli prisoners getting released today:

1- Romy Jonin (24 years old)
2- Emily Damary (28 years old)
3- Doron Shtanbar Khair (31 years old)

🇵🇸❌🇮🇱🇮🇱📝 — The Israeli army and the Shin Bet announce the recovery of the remains of an Israeli prisoner held in the Gaza Strip since 2014, Shaul Aron

🇺🇸🏛🇮🇱 AIPAC now holds 329 seats in the United States House of Representatives:

🔵 86 DEM
⚫️ 329 AIPAC
🔴 19 GOP
⚪️ 1 vacant

📎 AIPAC Tracker

— ❗️🇺🇸/📱 BREAKING: TikTok is now banned in the United States – the app is no longer accessible

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