🇺🇳🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- “We have 4000 trucks loaded with aid ready to enter the Gaza Strip, half of which carry food and flour.” - United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA.)

🇪🇬🇵🇸⚡️- Scenes from the Rafah border crossing, Egypt. A massive column of aid trucks are preparing to enter the Gaza Strip.

🇪🇬🇵🇸⚡️- The convoy of humanitarian aid has begun to move into the Gaza Strip.

🇶🇦🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- "The current deal was proposed 13 months ago. 13 months of waste, of negotiating details that have no meaning are not worth even the lives we lost in Gaza, or the lives of those hostages." - Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Jassim Al Thani, speaking to Sky News Arabia.

🇺🇸🔥⚡️- In Southern California, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is predicting wind gusts of upwards of 80 miles per hour that may worsen the still ongoing wildfires.

🇺🇸⚡️- Apple and Google have removed TikTok from their respective app stores following TikTok's official ban in the United States.

🇺🇸⚡️- President-elect Donald Trump via Truth Social: "SAVE TIKTOK!"

🇻🇦🇵🇸⚡️- Pope Francis called for the Gaza ceasefire to be "immediately respected," and called for a surge of humanitarian aid to flow into the Gaza Strip.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- Russian forces have captured Kotlino (Pokrovsk direction.)

Some pro-Russian outlets claim that Russian troops have advanced as far in this sector as the various farms in the north- although we could not confirm this. We have left it in the gray zone.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- Russian forces have also made significant advances in Dzherzhinsk (Toretsk,) and have nearly cleared out the entire city. We expect the city to fall to the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation imminently.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- The first three hostages, all female, are currently being released by Hamas.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- The Red Crescent are currently in the process of receiving the hostages, who will then be transferred to Israel.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- IDF soldiers preparing to receive the first three hostages from the Red Crescent.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- The Red Crescent has received the first three hostages. Waiting to be transferred to the IDF.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Arabic television crews have filmed multiple prisoners being transferred out of Ofer Prison in Haifa, northern Israel.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- 90 female Palestinian prisoners have been removed from Ofer Prison.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- The IDF says the Red Crescent has still not received the hostages.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- "The Red Cross told Israel that the condition of the three hostages is good." - Al Arabiya.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- An Israeli CH-53 Sea Stallion (Israeli name Yasur) is on standby preparing to receive and evacuate the three hostages.