The website Walla! reports that Hamas has established a secret communication channel with Trump through businessman Bishara Bahbah, former head of Trump’s Arab-Americans. Not only is the US president dissatisfied with the actions of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and for this reason he excludes the country from the process of resolving relations with Iran and Saudi Arabia, writes the British newspaper Financial Times. According to its assessment, the American leader is mainly dissatisfied with Israel’s plans to resume military operations in the Gaza Strip.
More than 550 former Israeli security officials are also dissatisfied and have asked Trump to push for a ceasefire and the return of prisoners. They are said to have asked Trump to use his visit to the region to stop the war and return the prisoners. Steve Witkoff said in response that “The United States is committed to releasing all prisoners and detainees.” Yisrael Ziv, former head of the IDF operations division: Netanyahu is leading us into an endless war because of his political crisis.
Also expected in Israel is Trump’s hostage-taking envoy, Adam Boehler, who is expected at the hostage-taking site in Tel Aviv. The families of the prisoners demonstrated and sent messages to Netanyahu: “The ball is in your court and you must declare your willingness to negotiate a deal that will allow the release of the 58 kidnapped people and the end of the war. Do not miss the historic opportunity that Israel has today.”
On May 13, according to the Gaza authorities: “In the past 24 hours, 46 people have arrived at hospitals in the Gaza Strip, of whom 31 were killed and 15 were injured. The death toll and injuries since March 18, 2025 have reached 2,780 dead and 7,680 injured.
And now a look at the military scenarios updated at 15:30 on May 13. The Government of Sanaa says that Sanaa International Airport is fully ready to perform its normal functions, meeting all safety and security requirements in accordance with approved international standards, adding that it hopes to resume flights to and from Amman Airport in Jordan and begin the procession of pilgrims through the airport.
Intensive flight of Israeli drones in the airspace of most areas of southern Lebanon at low altitude. Each area has more than three drones in its airspace. Lebanese sources reported that the person killed in the motorcycle attack in the village of Houla, in southern Lebanon, was a Hezbollah member named Musa Abboud. According to the Al-Manar correspondent: “An Israeli plane detonated a sound bomb over the school in the town of Dahra.”
Palestinians reported IDF attacks in Rafah, Khan Yunis and the Shejaiya area in the eastern part of Gaza City. There are casualties, the temporary ceasefire has ended. Ahmed al-Qadra, a senior Hamas internal security official, described as the “chief of the anti-terrorist apparatus,” was killed last night in an attack on Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis. Al-Qadra held the rank of “aqid,” equivalent to colonel. According to the Al-Mayadeen correspondent in Gaza, there are two dead and two wounded in an Israeli shelling near the entrance to Asda prison, west of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.
Al-Qassam Brigades said in a statement: “After returning from the battle lines, our fighters confirmed that they clashed with an Israeli lightly armed engineering force and killed the driver of a “Baqer” military vehicle east of Shuja’iyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City.”
Israeli soldiers detain a wounded youth at the entrance to Qalandia camp, north of Jerusalem.
Israeli special forces arrested in the West Bank in Askar al-Jade camp, and then withdrew toward Beit Furik. Palestinian accounts reported that the Palestinian Authority carried out three attacks in the eastern neighborhood of Jenin. Palestinian Authority security forces surrounded a home on Al-Madaris Street in the eastern neighborhood of Jenin.
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