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The Lebanese armed group Hezbollah on Thursday condemned Israel’s overnight incursion into the village of Blida, saying it "violated Lebanon’s sovereignty as well as international law".

The group said in a statement that Israeli forces also killed a municipal employee while he was sleeping. 

“Hezbollah strongly condemns this new Israeli crime, which came directly after the visit of the American envoy to Lebanon,” Hezbollah said.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun on Thursday instructed the commander of the army to "confront any Israeli incursion into southern Lebanon", after Israeli forces crossed the border overnight, entered a municipal building in the southern town of Blida and killed an employee. 

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam condemned the incident, calling it “a blatant attack on the institutions and sovereignty of the Lebanese state”.

On Thursday, Israel carried out air strikes in the Mahmoudiyeh and Jarmak areas of southern Lebanon, according to the official National News Agency.

The Israeli military issued a statement saying it targeted Hezbollah infrastructure.

The Turkish defence ministry said on Thursday that its disaster response team is still waiting by the Gaza border for Israeli approval to enter for search and rescue operations, Al Jazeera reported, quoting an official. 

“AFAD is still waiting at the border. Israel still did not issue any authorisation” for the team to enter, the source said, referring to Turkey's disaster relief agency, which is waiting on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing with a team of 81 specialists.

On 16 October, Turkey offered an expert team specialising in body retrieval, based on their experience with earthquake recovery, US officials said. 

"Just recently, we had Turkey call us up on the phone because they have an 81-man team that is as expert as there is in body retrieval … We think we're going to bring them in with a lot of other people as well," one adviser said.

Advisers also confirmed plans to establish a reward programme in Gaza: "We're probably going to put together some sort of programme where we're going to ask people to see if they can help us to locate bodies, and we're going to pay rewards for that type of good behaviour."

Israel detained two American citizens on Wednesday who were "participating in an initiative to help Palestinian olive growers harvest their crop" in the West Bank and are now being deported from Israel, local media reported. 

The report said that the two women are in Israel on a four-month educational programme with the Solidarity of Nations – Achvat Amim organisation, and were volunteering in the village of Burin for the harvest work with the Rabbis for Human Rights group.

This is the second incident in two weeks in which activists supporting Palestinian olive growers have been detained for entering the "closed military zone" that was imposed on Burin on 16 October.

“The police are arresting solidarity activists coming to support Palestinian farmers due to the settler violence against them during the olive harvest, instead of arresting the violent settlers who are making the presence of the solidarity activists necessary,” said Becca Strober, spokesperson for Solidarity of Nations.

According to Strober, 11 activists travelled to Burin on Wednesday morning, but were stopped at an Israeli checkpoint, and later detained after trying an alternate route. 

Gaza's Civil Defence said on Thursday that its teams carried out 197 missions in the past week alone, after Israeli strikes targeted Gaza in renewed aggression. 

Civil Defence teams dealt with 15 firefighting missions, 79 rescue incidents and 103 ambulance missions, it said in a statement on Telegram. 

This news comes after Israel targeted Gaza with air strikes, killing more than 110 Palestinians in 24 hours. 

Israel on Thursday carried out air strikes in the Mahmoudiyeh and Jarmak areas of southern Lebanon, as per the official National News Agency.

The Israeli military issued a statement saying it targeted Hezbollah infrastructure.

Israeli soldiers on Thursday killed a municipal employee in an overnight raid in the southern Lebanese town of Blida. 

Google and Amazon agreed to extraordinary terms in their $1.2bn Project Nimbus contract with Israel, alerting it when legal requests for data were made, a new investigative report has revealed. 

The 2021 deal, covering cloud and AI services for Israel’s government, military, and security agencies, includes clauses forbidding the companies from limiting how Israel uses their products, even if it breaches their own terms of service, leaked Israeli Finance Ministry documents obtained by +972 Magazine, Local Call, and The Guardian show. 

The contract also compelled Google and Amazon to secretly alert Israel if a foreign court demanded access to its data, sidestepping gag orders that normally bar such disclosure.

According to the investigation, the alert was done through a covert “winking mechanism” where coded payments that correspond to the country’s dialling code, were made if data was requested by a foreign court. 

The deal allowed Israel to not only evade legal oversight but also use the companies’ technology without restriction.

The revelations exposes the complicity of global tech giants in reinforcing Israel’s digital and military control over Palestinian lives. 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the US-led headquarters of the multinational force in Kiryat Gat, overseeing the Gaza ceasefire on Wednesday, his office announced.

Anadolu news agency reported that Netanyahu also met with US Central Command (Centcom) Commander Admiral Bradley Cooper.

The visit comes after the Israeli army killed more than 110 Palestinians, including 46 children, in Gaza since Tuesday.

Israeli attacks also wounded 253 people, including 78 children and 84 women, according to the Palestinian health ministry.

Israel has erected nearly 1,000 barriers in cities and towns in the occupied West Bank, Al Jazeera reported.

Among the new barriers are metal gates stationed at many village and town entrances, the report said. 

As per the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission, an official Palestinian governmental body, 916 gates, barriers and walls have been installed since October 2023.

Israeli soldiers on Thursday raided the southern Lebanese town of Blida and killed a municipal employee, local media have reported. 

Israeli troops entered the town of Blida after midnight with several military vehicles and stormed the municipal building, as per the official National News Agency.  

At the municipality, Israeli soldiers killed Ibrahim Salameh, an employee who had been staying there, the report said. 

The soldiers withdrew before dawn and the Lebanese army later entered the building and recovered the body of the municipal worker, NNA adds. 

Times of Israel reported that the army has not yet made any comments on the incident. 

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Israeli forces and settlers on Thursday stormed the Al-Hathroura community east of Jerusalem, where soldiers arrested 18 young men, Al Jazeera Arabic reported, quoting the Jerusalem Governorate. 

Israeli forces also stormed the city of Halhul, north of Hebron, and the Aida refugee camp, north of Bethlehem in the West Bank

Palestinian media reported that the Israeli forces opened fire on young men during a raid in the vicinity of the academy in the Rafidia neighbourhood, west of Nablus.

A Palestinian man was wounded by Israeli army gunfire during a raid in the vicinity of An-Najah National University in Nablus, in the northern West Bank. 

Doctors Without Borders project coordinator in Gaza, Caroline Willeman, on Thursday said that Israel continues to use aid as a weapon of war against Gaza.

Willeman said that the humanitarian situation in the region has not improved much, as shortages of water and shelter persist.

The Medical Relief Society in Gaza said the health system is collapsing beyond repair, warning that almost half of all kidney patients in the territory have already died because of Israel's blockade. 

Israeli forces on Thursday launched more than 10 air strikes targeting the eastern areas of Khan Younis city in the southern Gaza Strip, local media have reported. 

Reports said that at least two Palestinians were killed in Gaza despite the Israeli army's announcement that it was returning to implementing the ceasefire agreement. 

Palestinian media also reported that the Israeli army demolished residential homes in the eastern areas of Gaza City.

French foreign minister on Wednesday said that the country has sent civilians and military personnel to Israel to participate in a coordination centre set up by the US to organise the post-war Gaza, news agency AFP reported. 

"We have dispatched French military and civilian personnel to the team that the United States has deployed in Israel to implement the peace plan," said Jean-Noël Barrot, during an interview on the LCI channel, specifying that this centre was located "between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv."

The minister did not specify the number of personnel deployed, but they have already arrived on site, according to a source close to the minister interviewed by AFP.

Good morning Middle East Eye readers,

Here are the latest updates from Israel's war on Gaza, now in its 754th day:

• Israeli forces launched 10 air strikes on the eastern areas of Khan Younis city at dawn today, where the army carried out massive demolition operations.

• United Nations has strongly condemned the killings resulting from Israeli air strikes in Gaza. Over the past 24 hours, Israel has killed at least 110 Palestinians, including 35 children. 

• Reports said that at least two Palestinians were killed in Gaza despite the Israeli army's announcement that it was returning to implementing the ceasefire agreement.

• The director of the Medical Relief Society in Gaza said that they have lost 40% of kidney patients and that 350,000 diabetic patients in Gaza have not received any follow-up. 

• Doctors Without Borders said that Israel continues to use aid as a weapon of war against Gaza. 

• France has said it has sent a team to Israel to participate in the US plan to organise the post-war phase in the Gaza Strip.