https://www.ynetnews.com/culture/article/bjgw5iotee
In an Instagram story, Amedi—who was wounded while serving in reserve duty during the war—wrote: “I’m glad everyone’s laughing in the Knesset, but don’t forget—you made a commitment to all the hostages. Forty-eight. We’re here to remind you and to promise that none of you will be forgiven if you don’t bring all the fallen back to the land of Israel.”
Israel on Tuesday decided not to reopen the Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt the next day, as required by the ceasefire deal, accusing Hamas of failing to stand by its commitment to return the bodies of all dead hostages still held by Palestinian terrorists in the Strip.
Israel said it would also reduce the amount of aid flowing into Gaza as part of the sanctions against the terror group.
The moves followed assessments by Israeli defense officials that Hamas has not made significant efforts to return the remaining bodies of the hostages and amid rising anger among their families, with the main group representing them demanding that the ceasefire agreement’s implementation be halted until their loved ones are returned.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-faces-maga-backlash-over-20-billion-foreign-bailout
President Donald Trump faces a MAGA backlash after offering a $20 billion lifeline to Argentina, as thousands of federal workers face layoffs and soybean farmers bear the brunt of his sweetheart deal.
John Bartam, a soybean farmer from Illinois, said Trump’s $20 billion lifeline had led to Argentina lowering their export tax, which resulted in China buying seven million tonnes of soybeans from them, at the expense of the U.S.
“MAGA now means Make Argentina Great Again,” he said on Tuesday.
“It is inexplicable that President Trump is propping up a foreign government, while he shuts down our own,” said Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren.
https://www.newsweek.com/netanyahu-declines-invite-to-egypt-summit-on-israel-hamas-war-10869461
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said Monday that he will not attend a summit in Egypt later today on the Israel-Hamas war due to a Jewish holiday.
Egypt’s presidency had earlier said that both Netanyahu and Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, would be at the summit in Sharm-el-Sheikh. It would have been the first time the two had met since the 2015 U.N. Climate Change Conference in Paris.
Michtav M’Eliyahu (vol 1page 34) In the Torah it is written that Chanoch walked with G-d. Our Sages say he sewed shoes and at every stitch he would have mysyical thoughts about G-d. I heard in the name of Rav Yisroel Salanter that this is not to be understood literally since it is prohibited according to halacha to be occupied in a secular matter when thinking about G-d, Rather what our Sages meant is that he concentatrated his thought while stitching that each stitch should be good and strong to make the best possible shoes and thus he imitated G-d who is good to others and he had no thoughts other than to imitate G-d..
The long-awaited return of 20 hostages still alive in Gaza was under way early Monday, after a deal to release captives held by Hamas and stop the fighting in Gaza was approved Thursday by Israel’s government.
The deal was struck amid talks that followed after Israel and Hamas tentatively accepted a 20-point peace plan announced by President Trump. Trump sent his special envoy, Steve Witkoff, and son-in-law Jared Kushner to Egypt to finalize negotiations. Both of them visited Gaza on Saturday as part of the postwar planning.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-october-13-2025
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has just spoken by phone with Egyptian President Abdel Fatah El-Sissi, as US President Donald Trump listens in, Channel 12 news reports. In the call, apparently brokered by Trump at the Knesset, Netanyahu accepted an invitation by the Egyptian leader to join the international summit on Trump’s Gaza peace plan in Sharm El-Sheikh today, according to the report.
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hjijmeq6gg#autoplay
After 738 days in hell, all 20 living hostages are no longer in Hamas captivity; 13 living hostages have been handed over to IDF forces and are on their way to Israeli territory; 7 freed hostages are already in an IDF base with their families
https://www.israelhayom.com/2025/10/12/saudi-warning-qatar-will-bring-hamas-back
Over the past month, several key moderate Gulf states—Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Bahrain—have found themselves sidelined. While they support Trump's initiative to end the war, they are unhappy with the major concessions made to Qatar, still their regional rival and a supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist movement that undermines Arab regimes. They are also uneasy about Washington's expanding defense agreements with Doha.
https://www.newsweek.com/phase-one-of-gaza-deal-nears-end-what-to-know-10867370
The hostages have been held since October 7, 2023, when Hamas attacked Israel and took around 250 hostages. Hamas has released 148 hostages over the past two years, eight of whom were dead, according to the Associated Press. Hamas will also return the bodies of deceased hostages, although it is not clear how quickly this will happen.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-870111
Israeli officials are prepared for the release of 48 living and deceased hostages "at any time," The Jerusalem Post learned on Saturday evening. However, the working assumption is that the releases will take place on Monday.
Trump, who has a longstanding relationship with the Qataris, issued a surprisingly sharp rebuke of the Israeli attack and would soon offer an unprecedented security guarantee to back his promise that nothing like that would happen again.
Trump extended his public olive branch in tandem with his administration’s private outreach to Qatar and other Arab countries.
In those discussions, US officials made the case that the Doha attack offered an opportunity to put new pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5550230-trump-allies-oppose-qatar-base/?tbref=hp
“There isn’t a single Trump supporter who supports allowing Qatar to have a military base on US soil,” Loomer posted to the social platform X. “I don’t know who told President Trump this was a good idea, but it has made people not want to vote.”
She also wrote that “no foreign country should have a military base on US soil. Especially Islamic countries.”
In another post about Hegseth, she admonished him as he “should know how bad of an idea it is to allow Terror financing Qataris who fund HAMAS and the Muslim Brotherhood to have an AIR FORCE BASE ON US SOIL.”
