While Witkoff is in charge of the hostage deal negotiations and developments in Doha, Netanyahu is expected to focus instead on the Iranian issue. It has also emerged that peace with Syria is not on the agenda for the current visit or in the coming weeks.
Richard Tice, deputy chairman of Reform UK party leading in polls, attacks government's treatment of Israel and links antisemitism rise to immigration patterns.
In an incident 19 Turkish soldiers were exposed to methane gas during a search operation inside a cave in northern Iraq for the remains of a Turkish officer. According to a statement from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s office, the soldiers were exposed to “a high concentration of methane gas that had accumulated there.”
Netanyahu and his entourage landed at the US Air Force's Andrews Base near Washington. Israel Hayom has learned that the US is pressuring Qatar to “deliver the goods” regarding efforts to reach a hostage deal.
The Israeli Air Force targeted, among other sites, the cargo ship Galaxy Leader, which was hijacked by the Iranian-backed Houthi terrorist organization in November 2023 and repurposed as a radar system to monitor maritime traffic. The IDF also struck terrorist targets at the ports of Hudaydah, Ras Issa and As Salif, as well as the Ras Kantib power station.
