Hamas…Israel 10/20/2025…Vance Due on the Ground In Israel….

Things are fluid ….

A UN Security Council move for a International Secuirity Force in Gaza is in the works for Gaza…

There IS STILL shooting going on….

Vance is about to be ‘in the House’….

Witkoff is talking about rebuilding Gaza…..

Something Donald Trump IS probably looking to get a piece of?

 

• Hamas’ armed wing was due to hand over the remains of a hostage at 1700 GMT recovered a day earlier in Gaza. The return of 28 dead hostages was part of the agreement that ushered in a ceasefire, but 16 are still to be returned. The delay has caused outrage in Israel.

• US president Donald Trump has said that Hamas is “going to behave” or will face severe repercussions. “They’re going to be nice, and if they’re not, we’re going to go and we’re going to eradicate them,” Trump added.

• At least 135 mutilated bodies of Palestinians returned by Israel to Gaza had been held in a notorious detention centre already facing allegations of torture and unlawful deaths in custody, officials from Gaza’s health ministry told the Guardian.

• Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that he will discuss regional challenges and opportunities with US vice-president JD Vance during his visit to Israel, which is expected to begin on Tuesday. Addressing Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, in Jerusalem, Netanyahu said that together with US president Donald Trump, he expected to forge peace agreements in the region.

• A European and US-backed UN security council motion to give a planned international stabilisation force robust powers to control security inside Gaza is being prepared, with the strong expectation that Egypt will lead it, diplomats have said.

• Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has met with Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff, and adviser Jared Kushner, in Israel. “Prime minister Netanyahu met earlier today with special envoy Steve Witkoff and (US) President (Donald) Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner on the developments and updates in the region,” Shosh Bedrosian, spokesperson for the prime minister’s office told journalists.

• Gaza’s health ministry said in its latest update that the bodies of 57 people were brought to hospitals across the territory in the last 24 hours. It said 158 people had been injured. The health ministry says that it means at least 68,216 Palestinian people have been killed and 170,361 others injured in Israeli attacks on Gaza since 7 October 2023.

• The Israeli army says it opened fire on “several” people who crossed the yellow line – where the Israeli military agreed to withdraw to – earlier today. Without offering evidence, the Israel Defense Forces claimed in a post on X that these people posed “an immediate threat” to soldiers operating in the Shejaiya area in northern Gaza.

• Israeli defence minister Israel Katz warned that any Hamas militants in areas of Gaza still under Israeli control must leave immediately and that anyone remaining beyond the yellow line would be targeted without warning.

• Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei rejected on Monday an assertion by US president Donald Trump that the United States has destroyed Iran’s nuclear capabilities. “The US president proudly says they bombed and destroyed Iran’s nuclear industry. Very well, keep dreaming!” Khamenei said on X.

• US vice-president JD Vance is to visit Israel on Tuesday, the country’s airport authority said in a statement on Monday announcing preparations for his arrival at Tel Aviv’s airport. Israel Airports Authority said traffic disruptions around the airport were expected between 10.30am and 1.30pm local time and that some flights would be moved to another terminal.

• Egypt will host talks in Cairo on Monday with Khalil Al-Hayya, Hamas’ exiled Gaza chief, over ways to follow up on implementing the ceasefire agreement, the group said in a statement. A Palestinian official, close to the talks, has been quoted by Reuters as saying the group’s delegation would discuss ways to push forward the formation of a technocrat body to run Gaza without Hamas representation.

• Steve Witkoff has said he believes it could cost about £37bn to rebuild and reconstruct the Gaza Strip after relentless Israeli bombardments reduced much of the territory to rubble. “The estimates are in the $50bn (£37.2bn) range,” the US special envoy told CBS News. “It might be a little bit less; it might be a little bit more.”

• Hamas’s armed wing said it was unaware of clashes in Rafah and had not been in contact with groups there since March, also saying it remained committed to the truce agreement.

• Hamas claimed to have located the body of another Israeli hostage, saying it intended to hand over the remains to Israel if “field conditions allow”. The militant group warned that continued airstrikes and shelling would make such transfers impossible….

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