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Israel receives the body of one of the last four hostages in Gaza

Israel has received, via the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the body of one of the last four hostages held by Hamas or its allies in Gaza, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Thursday evening.

The coffin, handed over in the Gaza Strip to the Israeli army and the Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security agency, will be transferred to Israel and taken to the National Institute of Forensic Medicine in Tel Aviv for identification, the statement said.

(Credit: Mountasser Abdallah)

According to our correspondent, unexploded bombs were found scattered on the ground near the Israeli strike on Toul (Nabatieh).

An Israeli drone strike on a minivan in Toul (Nabatieh district) injured at least one person and hit near Ragheb Harb Hospital, according to our correspondent in southern Lebanon.

Hostage body to be returned tonight at 8 p.m. Israel time

A statement from the military wing of Hamas and Islamic Jihad said they have located the body of a hostage north of Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip, which will be handed over at 8 p.m. Israel time.

Israel kills 4 Palestinians, including 3 children, in occupied West Bank

In its weekly report on the humanitarian situation in the Palestinian territories, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said four Palestinians, including three children, were killed by the Israeli army between Nov. 4 and Nov. 10 in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.

The report said the three Palestinian boys were shot dead near the villages of al-Judeira and al-Yamoun, close to Israeli observation posts, while the fourth victim was killed near al-Faraa. The Israeli army claimed the shootings were in response to “stone-throwing” or “Molotov cocktails.”

In total, 45 Palestinian children have been killed by Israeli forces since January 2025 — about 23 percent of all Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank during that period — while 167 settler attacks linked to the olive harvest season have been recorded since Oct. 1, affecting 87 Palestinian communities, the report added.

Photo sent by the Lebanese Presidency.

French envoy Anne-Claire Legendre met with President Joseph Aoun at the Baabda Presidential Palace. She then headed to Ain al-Tineh for talks with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, according to Al-Jadeed.

Series of Israeli strikes on Gaza

The Israeli army carried out several rounds of airstrikes overnight and this morning across various parts of the Gaza Strip, from Beit Lahiya in the north to Khan Younis in the south.

The attacks targeted areas located inside the “yellow line,” which demarcates territory under Israeli control within the besieged enclave, according to Al-Jazeera’s local correspondents.

They added that Israeli forces also conducted artillery fire and demolition operations in eastern Gaza City and Khan Younis.

Despite a cease-fire that has been in place for more than a month, the Israeli army has continued to launch near-daily attacks in Gaza, killing at least 245 people and wounding 627, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry.

Turkey hopes future international stabilization force in Gaza will uphold cease-fire

Turkey’s Defense Ministry said Thursday that it expects the future international stabilization force in Gaza to ensure the durability of the fragile cease-fire, according to Reuters.

During a press briefing in Ankara, the ministry added that Turkey believes the U.S.-led Civil-Military Coordination Center (CMCC) must guarantee the unhindered delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza, in line with international law.

Israel destroyed more than 90 percent of Gaza’s vegetation, says Khan Younis mayor

The head of the Khan Younis municipality in southern Gaza said that Israeli attacks have “devastated more than 90 percent of the vegetation” in the Palestinian enclave and “made it difficult to access landfills for waste treatment.”

Speaking to Al-Jazeera Arabic, Mayor Alaa al-Batta said Gaza is "facing a real catastrophe that is leading to the spread of diseases and epidemics."

“Everything in Gaza has been destroyed as part of a deliberate and systematic plan, including agricultural land,” he pointed out.

G7 reiterates support for Trump’s Gaza plan, urges Iran to cooperate with IAEA

The G7 countries' foreign ministers issued a joint statement yesterday expressing support for U.S. President Donald Trump’s Gaza truce plan, and calling on Iran to fulfill its international nuclear obligations.

Gathering in Canada, the ministers “reiterated their strong support” for the plan and praised the cease-fire and the recent release of hostages. 

The G7 also urged Tehran to “fully implement its obligations under the United Nations Security Council resolutions and the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons,” and for it to resume full cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

An Israeli drone dropped a stun bomb on Naqoura's beach (Sour district).

French presidential envoy Anne-Claire Legendre arrived in Beirut yesterday.

She is scheduled to meet with Lebanese officials at a time when the cease-fire with Israel is dangerously faltering.

Barrack hails 'remarkable transformation of Syria from isolation to partnership'

U.S. envoy to Syria and Lebanon, Ambassador Tom Barrack, said in a lengthy post on X that recent days marked “a decisive turning point in the modern history of the Middle East — and in the remarkable transformation of Syria from isolation to partnership.”

His statement followed Monday’s historic visit by Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa to the White House.

"The next step in truly 'giving Syria a chance' is the full repeal of the Caesar Act," Barrack wrote

The week before his meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, Sharaa was removed from both the U.S. terrorist blacklist and U.N. Security Council sanctions — a move seen as paving the way for Syria’s integration into the international coalition against the Islamic State group.

Israeli settlers set fire to mosque in occupied West Bank

Israeli settlers set fire to the Haja Hamida Mosque, located between the villages of Deir Istiya and Qal Hars in the occupied West Bank, and covered its walls with racist graffiti Thursday morning, according to the Wafa news agency.

Anti-settlement activist Nazmi al-Salman told the agency that residents discovered early in the morning that settlers had poured flammable materials at the mosque’s entrance before setting it ablaze.

The residents’ quick response prevented the fire from spreading throughout the building.

Good morning, thank you for joining us for today's live coverage of the events in the region, namely the cease-fires in Lebanon and Gaza, under repeated Israeli violations.

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Israeli strikes block Litani River flow

At around 4 a.m., Israeli warplanes targeted a restaurant in the town of Tayr Filsey (Sour district), near the Litani River's banks, without causing any casualties, according to L'Orient Today's correspondent in the South.

The strike's damage spilled into the riverbed, blocking the flow in several areas, according to the National Litani River Authority, which immediately activated its emergency plan to clear the waterway and protect nearby residential areas.

Israeli warplanes also struck a house in Aitaroun's Khanouq neighborhood (Bint Jbeil), near another home that was hit two days ago.

Early this morning, Israeli soldiers fired machine guns from their post in Rweissat al-Alam toward the outskirts of Kfar Shuba (Hasbaya).

Rubio concerned West Bank violence could hurt Gaza peace efforts

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio expressed concern on Wednesday that the latest spate of violence by Israeli settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank could spill over and undermine U.S.-backed peace efforts in Gaza.

"I hope not," Rubio told reporters after a meeting of the Group of Seven foreign ministers in Canada, when asked whether the West Bank events could endanger the Gaza cease-fire. "We don't expect it to. We'll do everything we can to make sure it doesn't happen."