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The Israeli military said it eliminated Hussein Qadra and Mohammed Farra, operatives in Hamas and Islamic Jihad who led a funding network that facilitated transfers totaling more than half a billion shekels to Hamas.
A gunman in a car opened fire at three locations near Kochav Yair in central Israel, close to the West Bank, killing a 35-year-old man and wounding five others (two seriously); police killed the suspected shooter and arrested a second suspect. Hamas praised the attacks but did not claim responsibility as Israeli troops deployed to the sites and a broader security response followed, with political leaders condemning the attack.
Israeli air strikes hit two Hamas-led police checkpoints in Khan Younis, Gaza, killing at least six Palestinians—three policemen and three civilians including a girl—and wounding others, in a flare-up that persists despite a ceasefire more than five months old.
Israeli strikes in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley killed at least 10 people and wounded about 50 after the army said it targeted Hezbollah sites in Baalbek; a senior Hezbollah official was among the dead. Israel also hit a Hamas command center in Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp. The flare-up risks undermining a fragile U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.
A Tel Aviv countdown clock counting the days since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack will be switched off after the discovery of the last remaining hostage’s body in Gaza, Ran Gvili. The moment is framed as national closure and healing, coinciding with updates to a US-backed plan that includes reopening Gaza’s Rafah border and advancing the war’s endgame, while ceasefire violations and ongoing casualties continue in the region.