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Israeli jets and artillery pounded the education district of Beit Lahia, hitting inside the so-called yellow line in northern Gaza, in further violation of the ceasefire, Al Jazeera Arabic reported.

The renewed bombardment marks one of hundreds of deadly violations by Israel following the ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel, built around US President Donald Trump’s plan, that officially took effect on 10 October.

Israeli forces have stepped up raids in Gaza’s south, unleashing heavy bombardment on areas crowded with displaced people.

Al Jazeera Arabic reported that Israeli warplanes struck neighbourhoods northeast of Rafah, while tanks and helicopters opened fire in the same district. Residents said the attacks forced families to flee yet again, despite Israel’s claims of “safe zones” that have repeatedly proved illusory.

Further north, Israeli artillery and air power targeted areas east and south of Khan Younis. 

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Here are the latest updates from Israel's war on Gaza: 

• Gaza’s civil defence said Israeli warplanes pounded several neighbourhoods through the weekend, killing at least 21 people and injuring dozens more, in what Palestinians described as another breach of the ceasefire.

• Hamas said a senior delegation met Egypt’s intelligence chief in Cairo to discuss the second stage of the ceasefire arrangement, with talks focused on securing further pauses in fighting and the release of detainees.

• Palestinian Vice President Hussein al-Sheikh met former British Prime Minister Tony Blair to assess the situation in Gaza and the occupied West Bank after the UN Security Council passed its resolution calling for an end to the war.

• Hezbollah confirmed that Haytham Ali Tabatabai, the group’s top military commander, died in an Israeli strike on Beirut. The attack levelled an apartment block in Dahiyeh, the movement’s stronghold in southern Beirut.

• The strike that killed Tabatabai also left at least five people dead, according to Lebanese authorities, marking one of Israel’s most significant hits on Hezbollah’s leadership in recent months.

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Israel's national security minister, Itamar Ben Gvir, on Sunday toured the Negev Bedouin village, sparking anger from residents after police blocked the town’s entrance with concrete blocks this afternoon.

Israeli media reported that Ben Gvir argued with Walid al-Hawashleh, a member of the Israeli parliament. 

“We will mow down whoever is bad, I’m not afraid of them, I’m the landlord here,” he told Hawashleh and other Arab lawmakers. 

Times of Israel reported that dozens of residents of the Arab village jeered the far-right minister. 

Israeli forces on Sunday crossed into Syrian territory and set up a checkpoint near the Ain al-Bayda junction in northern Quneitra, Anadolu news agency reported. 

Syrian state-run TV channel Al-Ikhbariya said that an Israeli unit advanced into the area and remained deployed at the junction, stopping cars and carrying out searches.

A separate force of military vehicles advanced deeper into the northern Quneitra countryside and spread between the town of Jubata al-Khashab and the villages of Ofaniya and Ain al-Bayda, the Syrian Arab News Agency reported. 

The report said that Israeli forces also staged an incursion near the villages of Umm Batina and al-Ajraf in the central countryside of Quneitra.

Two people were reported injured in a shooting incident in Tel Aviv on Sunday, Israeli Magen David Adom (MDA) emergency service reported. 

The incident happened close to Tel Aviv University, Israeli media reported. 

One of the injured, a 30-year-old man, is in a serious condition, as per the report. 

Both the victims were taken to Ichilov Medical Centre for treatment.

Israeli chief of staff Eyal Zamir on Sunday dismissed senior officers in the military over "failure to prevent" the 7 October 2023 attack by Hamas, local media reported. 

Zamir ended the service of several retired generals, including the former Military Intelligence chief Aharon Haliva, former Southern Command chief Yaron Finkelman, and former Operations Directorate chief Oded Basyuk, according to the public broadcaster KAN.

The report said that Zamir also dismissed Gaza Division reserve commander Avi Rosenfeld, while the division’s intelligence officer was expelled from the army altogether. 

Israeli military on Sunday stormed the town of Al-Khader, southwest of Bethlehem, and positioned themselves in the Al-Tall and Al-Baraka areas in the old town, Al Jazeera Arabic reported. 

The report, quoting local sources, said that the army forced shop owners to close their shops. 

Israeli forces on Sunday wounded a Palestinian man by shooting him in the knee with live ammunition in the town of Al-Ram, north of occupied Jerusalem, the Red Crescent reported. 

The organisation said that its crews transferred the man to the hospital.

Israeli media on Sunday reported that the US is “pleased” with Israel’s strike that killed Hezbollah military commander Haytham Ali Tabatabai. 

“We are pleased with the elimination of the number two in Hezbollah. We think it’s a wonderful thing," Israeli Channel 12 quoted a US official as saying. 

Lebanese media confirmed the killing of Hezbollah military commander Haytham Ali Tabatabai in the attack. 

United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (Unrwa) media advisor Adnan Abu Hasna on Sunday said that the deficit in its budget has impacted its services to millions of refugees in Gaza as Israel's policy of starvation continues. 

The challenges resulting from Israeli pressures, including the law banning the agency, have left a financial deficit from now until the first quarter of next year, estimated at about $200 million, Al Jazeera quoted Hasna as saying. 

This budget is allocated for the salaries of more than 30,000 employees in all areas of Unrwa operations in Gaza, the occupied West Bank, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan. 

Israeli settlers on Sunday attacked Palestinian vehicles near the town of Beitunia, west of Ramallah, local media reported. 

A group of settlers attacked Palestinian vehicles with stones on the Ain Jariout road, northwest of the town, causing material damage to one of the citizens' vehicles, the report said. 

The occupation forces also raided homes in the town of Surif, north of Hebron. 

The Palestinian Prisoners' Society on Sunday said that Ahmad Saadat, secretary-general of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), was subjected to a severe beating in Israeli prisons, Anadolu news agency reported. 

The head of the society, Abdullah al-Zaghari, said that 72-year-old Saadar was severely beaten during his transfer from Megiddo prison in northern Israel to Gilboa prison in the south.

“Saadat’s health condition is difficult, and the Israeli assaults pose a threat to his life,” he said.

The attack on Saadat comes “as part of the ongoing targeting of leaders of the prisoners’ movement under the instructions of Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir,” Zaghari added. 

The leading French union of higher education teachers and researchers (Snesup-FSU) on Sunday said that a survey on anti-Semitism aimed at teachers and students, initiated by the Ministry of Higher Education, is biased and called for its withdrawal, news agency AFP reported. 

French newspaper Le Monde reported that the survey, conducted by the polling institute Ifop, asks staff about antisemitism.

"When you think about the antisemitism that exists in France, would you say that Jews bear some responsibility?" it asks, among other things.

The survey also asked respondents to classify "opinions that one sometimes hears about Jews", such as "generally Jews are richer than the average French person".

A letter about the "scientific study" on "anti-Semitism in higher education and research" was sent to heads of institutions, the report said. 

Emmanuel de Lescure, general secretary of the Snesup-FSU union, told AFP that the study aims to create "a kind of map of political opinions in higher education and research," which raises questions about its legality.