Overview

• Newly released details describe the Hamas propaganda operation built by their spokesman Abu Obeida - who the IDF eliminated last week - which included  ~1,500 personnel, including ~1,000 fighters in battalions and brigades carrying GoPro cameras to document combat. Abu Obeida conceived the extensive filming during the Oct 7 massacre, planned new atrocity videos exploiting hostages

• Hamas released a video filmed on Aug 28 showing hostage Guy Galboa Dalal in a car in Gaza stating that eight hostages are alive; another clip features Alon Ohel.

• US Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned countries that recognizing a Palestinian state now is “fake” and would provoke Israeli counter-steps while hindering a ceasefire. On the application of Israeli sovereignty in  Judea and Samaria, he expressed that the US is watching the issue closely but that he would not opine on the matter.

• A top United Arab Emirates official warned Israel that annexing Judea and Samaria would cross a “red line” that would “end the vision of regional integration”.

• Following a strike last week that killed the Houthi “prime minister” and 12 ministers, sources “close to Houthi decision-making circles” report that the movement’s leadership ordered commanders not to convene in public venues or use official government facilities.

Gaza 

Hostage Deal

• Hamas released a video filmed…