Overview

• IDF Spokesperson revealed that Hamas generated income of hundreds of millions of dollars during the war by exploiting the food aid and humanitarian crisis in Gaza by stealing aid and selling it at inflated prices.

• In light of Operation “Rising Lion”, Israel reduced its ground forces in Gaza.

• The number of ballistic missiles Iran is launching at Israel has dropped sharply, with Iran’s ability to strike Israeli civilian areas now severely degraded.

• Over the past eight days, the IAF has carried out more than 1,000 sorties over Iran, dropping hundreds of munitions on Iranian ballistic missile launch and storage sites. The IDF estimates that over 200 ballistic missile launchers have been destroyed—about half of Iran’s pre-war arsenal.

• The Houthis issue a statement threatening the United States if it joins the Israeli campaign against Iran, with a threat to attack American vessels.

Iran

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Gaza 

Hostage Deal

• Mousa Abu Marzouk, Deputy Head of Hamas’s political bureau, said that despite Israeli claims of renewed negotiations, nothing has actually happened. He accused Israel of having no intention to end the war regardless of Hamas’s proposals and suggested that the Israel-Iran escalation could push Israel towards…