April 30, 2025 - October 7 War, Day 572 - 59 Hostages remain in captivity  

• Fighting continues in Gaza. Last week, three soldiers fell in battle.
• On Sunday, the Air Force launched a pinpoint attack on a building in Beirut’s Dahiyeh neighborhood, where Hezbollah is headquartered. The target was a storage facility holding a large quantity of precision missiles, in violation of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Lebanon. Israel continues to respond to every violation of the agreement by Hezbollah.
• Sporadic rocket fire, mainly from the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen, continues. These missiles are typically intercepted by Israel’s defense systems. Using open-source data, the HonestReporting NGO has mapped the terror tunnel network running under Gaza. The newly released interactive site can be seen here.

• According to most reports, negotiations over a hostage deal are at an impasse. Nonetheless, media reports note that Egypt said that a deal is close. One Israeli government official, while averring that “not everything the Egyptians say is true,” acknowledged that there has been some progress, with the duration of the potential ceasefire Hamas’ future role in Gaza both still needing to be resolved.
• Hamas has expressed a willingness to sign an all-encompassing deal that would see a release of all 59 remaining hostages in exchange for a very large number of Palestinian prisoners, plus a full Israeli pull-out from Gaza and a five-year ceasefire that would leave Hamas in power.
• Israel says that it won’t accept any deal that:
  • leaves Hamas in power
  • allows Hamas to maintain its weapons
  • doesn’t allow IDF forces to be stationed at several points that it deems critical to Israel’s security
• Israel, for its part, has stated that it is willing to pursue a partial deal that would entail the release of some hostages in exchange for a shorter-term ceasefire.