Israel News for 1-31-2025
News Update
Israeli hostages Keith Siegel, 65, Ofer Calderon, 54, and Yarden Bibas, 35, are set to be released tomorrow, according to a list submitted by Hamas to Qatari and Egyptian mediators and approved by Israel. Siegel is a U.S. citizen and Calderon a French citizen. The fate of Shiri Bibas and her 2 young children is still unknown. Hamas claimed in November 2023 that they were killed in an Israeli bombing. The IDF investigated the claim but did not confirm their deaths.
IAF fighter jets struck Hezbollah targets in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley overnight. The targets included an underground weapons factory and smuggling infrastructure on the Syria-Lebanon border.
Israel claims that Iranian diplomats and Turkish citizens are bringing in suitcases stuffed with U.S. dollar on flights to Beirut to fund Hezbollah, which Israel views as a breach of the ceasefire agreement.
IDF Staff Sgt. Liam Hazi, 20, from Rosh HaAyin, was killed yesterday in the ongoing anti-terror operation in the Jenin refugee camp. Four other soldiers were wounded in the same ambush.
IDF soldiers shot and hit two terrorists who threw Molotov cocktails at Route 60 during an ambush in the El-Hader area in Judea.
IDF reservists Yuri Eliasfov, 22, and Georgi Andreyev, 21, were charged today with collaborating with an Iranian foreign agent known as “Boaz” and carrying out actions intended to harm Israel’s national security. According to the indictment filed in Haifa District Court, Eliasfov served as a technician in the Iron Dome air defense system and Andreyev as a technician at the Israeli Air Force’s operations center. The two have been friends for years.
