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Israeli Public Broadcasting reported on Friday that Hamas will be handing over the bodies of three Israeli captives in the coming 24 hours. 

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun has accused Israel of responding to Lebanon's offer to negotiate by intensifying air strikes, the latest of which killed a man riding a motorbike in southern Lebanon. 

Despite agreeing in November 2024 to a ceasefire with Hezbollah, Israel maintains troops in five areas in southern Lebanon and has continued to bomb the country from the air.

Aoun called for negotiations with Israel in mid-October, after US President Donald Trump brokered a ceasefire in Gaza. 

“Lebanon is ready for negotiations to end the Israeli occupation, but any negotiation... requires mutual willingness, which is not the case,” AFP reported Aoun as saying on Friday.

Israel “is responding to this option by carrying out more attacks against Lebanon... and intensifying tensions”, he said during a meeting with German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul.

Wadephul said he would urge his Israeli counterpart Gideon Saar to withdraw Israeli troops from southern Lebanon.

“Israel must withdraw. I understand that Israel has security needs... But in fact, we now need a process of mutual trust-building,” the German minister said.

Wadephul also encouraged the Lebanese government to ensure there is “a credible, transparent and rapid process of disarming Hezbollah”.

The Israeli military's chief legal officer has resigned following the leak of a video that showed the alleged rape of a Palestinian detainee at Sde Teiman detention centre.

Advocate General Major-General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi said on Friday that she was stepping down because she had approved the video's leak in August 2024.

The surveillance video footage led to five Israeli reserve soldiers being charged. A criminal investigation into how the leak happened was launched by Israeli police earlier this week.

Before her resignation, Defence Minister Israel Katz had said that Tomer-Yerushalmi would not be allowed to return to her post. 

In her resignation letter, Tomer-Yerushalmi wrote: “I approved the release of material to the media in an attempt to counter false propaganda against the army's law enforcement authorities.”

She called Sde Teiman detainees, where some Hamas fighters who participated in the 7 October 2023 attack on Israel are being held, “terrorists of the worst kind”, but added that this did not take away from the obligation to investigate suspected abuse.

“To my regret, this basic understanding - that there are acts to which even the most vile of detainees must not be subjected - is no longer convincing to all,” she said.

Turkey will host a meeting of foreign ministers from Muslim countries to discuss a US peace plan for Gaza on Monday, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said.

Fidan told reporters at a press conference in Ankara on Friday that the meeting would “evaluate our progress and discuss what we can achieve together in the next stage”.

The Turkish foreign minister said the gathering would include foreign ministers of countries represented at a meeting with US President Donald Trump in New York in September.

That meeting, to discuss the situation in Gaza, was attended by Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Pakistan and Indonesia.

“The topics being discussed currently are how to proceed to the second stage, the stability force,” Fidan said on Friday.

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir has posted a video of himself standing over a row of Palestinian prisoners lying prone with their hands tied, in which he calls for the “death penalty for terrorists”.

In footage shared on his personal Telegram channel, Ben Gvir speaks to the camera while pointing at a dozen detainees face down in front of an Israeli flag.

“These guys, the Nukhba who came to kill children, women, our babies. Look at them today,” the far-right minister says, referring to the special forces unit of Hamas's military wing.

“But there's still something that must be done: death penalty for the terrorists.”

In a lengthy caption posted alongside the video on Friday, Ben Gvir said that after Israel killed Hamas's leaders, the Palestinian movement had “tortured the hostages” taken to Gaza after the 7 October 2023 attack.

The settler leader, who is the minister responsible for Israel's prisons, boasted about the harsh detention conditions he had imposed on Palestinian prisoners.

“I am proud of the revolution in the prisons, unlike anything since the founding of the state; today, instead of a summer camp, there is deterrence. There are no more smiles there - we erase them,” he wrote.

“Ask any terrorist who passed through my prison, if he would like to return there - they are afraid, trembling, and the number of attacks has fallen remarkably.”

Ben Gvir published a video in August showing him confronting the most high-profile Palestinian detainee in Israeli custody, Marwan Barghouti, in his prison cell.

The director-general of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Friday that the destruction of Gaza was beyond anything he had witnessed in his three-decade long career.

“In the 25 or 30 years that I've been working in the humanitarian field, I have not seen that level of destruction,” Pierre Krahenbuhl told AFP.

“Not enough (aid) is coming into the Gaza Strip yet,” the ICRC official said. “What people need is, of course, far bigger than what we currently are able to deliver.”

The basic needs of Palestinians in Gaza are so immense “that what we are starting to do with improved humanitarian access is only the tip of the iceberg”, Krahenbuhl said.

The ICRC's director-general hit out at Israel's order this week banning the organisation from visiting Palestinians held under a law that allows for their indefinite detention.

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said resuming the visits, which were suspended following the outbreak of Israel's genocide in Gaza, would “seriously harm the state's security”.

But there was “no way in which our visits can pose a security threat or a national security threat”, Krahenbuhl said, urging Israel to lift the ban.

In the interview with AFP, Krahenbuhl also said that humanitarian workers are being increasingly targeted in Gaza and in Sudan, where five Red Crescent volunteers were killed this week.

“It is now becoming a pattern of violence against humanitarian workers in Sudan, in Gaza, and others, that we find very dramatic,” he said.

On Tuesday, the ICRC said that five Sudanese Red Crescent volunteers were killed in North Kordofan state, where fighting is taking place between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), which have been at war since April 2023.

Yemen’s Houthi authorities say local United Nations staff will face trial over alleged involvement in the Israeli air strike that killed several senior Houthi leaders in August.

Acting foreign minister Abdulwahid Abu Ras told Reuters that the “security agencies acted under full judicial supervision”, adding that “the public prosecution was kept informed step by step with every action taken”.

The August attack on Sanaa killed the Houthi government’s prime minister and several ministers — the first Israeli strike to target senior officials in Yemen.

The United Nations has strongly denied any link between its staff or operations and the incident. It says at least 59 of its personnel remain detained by the Houthis

The world’s gaze has shifted away from Gaza and it was seemingly relegated in importance. After all, a little over two years after the 7 October attacks, with Israel’s unforgiving campaign of annihilation, a ceasefire was reached. 

Brokered by US President Donald Trump, negotiations culminated in a ceremony in Egypt on 13 October that celebrated "peace in the Middle East". The president hailed the "historic day" and insisted he’d "achieved what everybody said was impossible".

On Tuesday, that arrangement was in serious jeopardy. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sanctioned a series of air strikes on Gaza, killing over 100 Palestinians including 47 children. Suddenly the ceasefire that had held resolutely was on the brink. 

Or so the UK mainstream media characterised events in the region. 

Across the broadcast and press realm, the story was told using the same lens. In its live feed, the BBC stated the Israeli strikes were a "test" of the ceasefire. The Guardian and The Times opted for the same framing, language that was also echoed by LBC. Sky News and the Financial Times highlighted the sign of its "fragility".

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Israeli forces killed three Palestinians across the Gaza Strip, including one who died from wounds sustained in an earlier air raid, in yet another breach of the fragile ceasefire.

Israeli warships unleashed heavy gunfire off the coast of Gaza City, further undermining the already crumbling truce. Here are some of the other ceasefire violations Israel has carried on Friday:

• Israeli forces bombed the Shuja'iyya and Tuffah neighbourhoods east of Gaza City. Al Jazeera’s reported that the occupation army demolished residential buildings amid intense artillery shelling, marking yet another breach of the ceasefire.

• Heavy artillery fire and gunfire were reported east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza. According to Al Jazeera’s correspondent, Israeli helicopters have been attacking the area since last night in clear defiance of the truce.

• Only a limited number of food aid trucks entered Gaza through the Kissufim crossing. Al Jazeera’s correspondent said the entry was part of slow and restricted humanitarian efforts as Israel continues to strangle the enclave with its blockade and widespread destruction despite agreeing to let food trucks.

• A Palestinian was killed by Israeli occupation forces in Jabalia, northern Gaza. A source at Al-Shifa Hospital told Al Jazeera Arabic.

Israel’s assaults on Palestinians have set a dangerous global precedent, a UN expert warned.

“What happens in Palestine does not stay in Palestine,” Reem Alsalem, UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, said during a briefing on Palestinian rights.

She described the mass killings and brutalisation of Palestinian women and girls as “the most defining moment that declares the world no longer cares.”

Alsalem added that the scale of the atrocities has become so normalised “that no one now bats an eyelid about what is happening to women and girls in conflict and crisis elsewhere.”

She warned that existing legal frameworks are inadequate to confront the horrors Palestinians face.

A classified US government report has identified Israeli military units as responsible for hundreds of potential human rights violations in Gaza, according to The Washington Post.

The assessment by the State Department’s inspector general was completed shortly before the ceasefire, US officials told the newspaper. It represents the first official US recognition of Israeli actions that may breach the Leahy Laws, which bar US security assistance to foreign forces accused of serious abuses.

Officials said investigating the incidents could take “multiple years.” The report also revealed that Israel receives special review procedures, requiring consensus among senior officials, unlike other countries where a single objection can halt aid.

“What worries me is that accountability will be forgotten now that the noise of the conflict is dying down,” said Charles Blaha, a former State Department official. The US provides Israel at least $3.8bn in annual aid, which increased substantially after 7 October.

The Nasser Medical Complex in southern Gaza said it had received the bodies of 30 Palestinian handed over by the Israeli occupation as part of the ongoing exchange deal with Hamas.

The return of the bodies underscores the heavy toll of Israel’s mass detention campaign, which has seen thousands of Palestinians imprisoned or killed under the occupation’s brutal war on Gaza.

An Israeli drone strike targeted a motorcycle in the town of Kounine, located in Lebanon’s Nabatieh governorate, according to the country’s official National News Agency.

Initial reports said several people were wounded in the attack. The latest assault marks yet another Israeli breach of the ceasefire deal signed with Lebanon on 27 November 2024.

Israeli occupation forces raided the occupied West Bank city of Qalqilya at dawn, arresting five young men after storming several neighbourhoods, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa

Local residents said Israeli troops entered from the city’s southern gate and spread through Al-Naqqar and the streets of Jaljulia and Nablus before detaining Firas Hassain, Saleh Sawi, Mo’men Jabara, Muhammad Abed and Ayman Hajjar.

Homes were ransacked and searched during the arrests, part of Israel’s ongoing campaign of intimidation and repression across the occupied territories.

Israeli forces killed three Palestinians across the Gaza Strip, including one who died from wounds sustained in an earlier air raid, in yet another breach of the fragile ceasefire.

Overnight, Israeli troops demolished several homes east of Gaza City and Khan Younis, triggering massive explosions that echoed through the night.

Meanwhile, Israeli warships unleashed heavy gunfire off the coast of Gaza City, further undermining the already crumbling truce.