-The IDF captured a “senior” member of the al-Jama’a al-Islamiyya terror organization during an overnight raid in southern Lebanon, and separately killed two Hezbollah terrorists, the military said Monday.
- IDF troops in Rafah killed four Hamas terrorists after encountering them emerging from a tunnel.
- Israeli ministers announced plans to change West Bank land registration rules to accelerate Jewish settlement. The Palestinian Authority condemned the move and sought international intervention, while Hamas called for an escalation of violence.
-Hezbollah Secretary General Naim Qassem: "The main problem facing Lebanon is the Israeli-American aggression. It cannot be prevented except through the military power of the resistance, the popular solidarity power, and the political power. The basic solution in Lebanon is resistance to aggression and unity around this possibility."
- Yair Lapid accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of falsifying security protocols before the October 7 attack and called for a criminal investigation.
- Anti-Israel protests broke out in Australia during President Isaac Herzog’s visit to Sydney, which followed an invitation from Prime Minister Anthony Albanese after a December shooting at a Chanukkah event in Bondi Beach.
- Yisrael Beytenu chairperson Avigdor Liberman visited the Kerem Shalom border crossing in Gaza on Monday, where he said Israel was funding Hamas and allowing it to rebuild by sending humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip. “I look around and see countless trucks, and the truth must be told to the public: these trucks are funding Hamas’s military build-up,” he said.
- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will fly to Washington on Tuesday for a meeting with President Donald Trump, returning to Israel early Friday morning.
- The IDF said it will reduce the number of days reservists are required to serve under routine call-up orders not emergency ones from 72 to 55. It will also end several practices that have become commonplace since the start of the war on October 7, 2023.