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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is expected to visit Israel later this week, according to multiple Israeli media reports on Tuesday.

Rubio is expected to arrive on Thursday, but his plans could change, The Times of Israel reported. 

The Red Cross has received the bodies of two additional captives in Gaza, the Israeli army said on Tuesday.

Hamas says it is trying to locate the bodies of all captives, but has had difficulty because of the scale of Israeli bombing. 

The UK has sent a small contingent of British military officers to Israel to join a task force led by the US to monitor the Gaza ceasefire, the UK defence ministry said.

The US has established a Civil-Military Coordination Centre to oversee the Gaza ceasefire. 

A spokesperson with the UK Ministry of Defence said that officers had been dispatched to participate, including a two-star deputy commander. 

"The UK continues to work with international partners to support the Gaza ceasefire to see where the UK can best contribute to the peace process,” the spokesperson said. 

US Vice President JD Vance will propose on Wednesday the implementation of Phase 2 of the Gaza ceasefire to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to the Israeli Broadcasting Authority.

When asked earlier on Tuesday about the ultimate governance of Gaza, Vance was noncommittal.

“I don’t know the answer to that question," he told reporters. “We’re creating a governance structure that is very flexible to what happens on the ground in the future.”

"Once we’ve got to a point where both the Gazans and our Israeli friends can have some measure of security, then we’ll worry about what the long-term governance of Gaza is,” he said. 

Palestinian Foreign Minister Varsen Aghabekian Shahin has decried the upsurge of settler attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

"Armed settler militias, protected by the Israeli occupation army, attack Palestinian farmers, burn vehicles, and steal olive crops. These crimes are part of a systematic campaign of displacement and extermination," Shahin said. 

The Hind Rijab Foundation has taken 24 Israeli soldiers and commanders to the International Criminal Court over the killing of Hind Rijab, a six-year-old Palestinian child. 

The foundation identified the Vampire Empire Company of the 52nd Armoured Battalion operating under Israel’s 401st Armoured Brigade as responsible for the killing of Hind, six members of her family and two Palestinian medics. 

The Foundation said three key senior Israeli commanders were responsible: Colonel Beni Aharon, commander of the 401st Armoured Brigade; Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Ella, commander of the 52nd Armoured Battalion; and Major Sean Glass, commander of the Vampire Empire Company. 

The foundation said an additional 22 identified tank crew members of the same company "directly participated in or facilitated the attack".

"The attacks were carried out with full knowledge of the victims’ civilian and protected status, following prior coordination between the Palestinian Red Crescent and Israeli authorities," the foundation said in a statement. 

"The Foundation’s legal team concludes that these acts amount to war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide, under Articles 6, 7, and 8 of the Rome Statute," the statement added. 

US Vice President JD Vance said on Tuesday that Gaza reconstruction funds will not go to areas of the enclave held by Hamas. 

Vance said that his trip to Israel was not related to the Israeli ceasefire violations over the last days and was preplanned in advance. 

Vance also ruled out sending US troops into the Gaza Strip. 

US Vice President JD Vance said on Tuesday that he expects the ceasefire in Gaza to hold, but that there is more work to do on implementation. 

“We’ve got a lot of work left to do. This is going to take a very, very long time, but I think Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner, and Admiral [Brad] Cooper behind me have done an incredible job," Vance told reporters after arriving in Israel. 

As Donald Trump made his way to the Middle East when the Gaza ceasefire began, he told reporters that the potential role of Tony Blair in the Palestinian enclave’s future was up for debate.

“I like Tony, I have always liked Tony. But I want to find out that he is an acceptable choice to everybody,” the US president said.

Blair’s record in the Middle East is controversial, to say the least, and the suggestion floated by Washington that he help run a post-war Gaza has been met with suspicion and even disgust in much of the Arab world.

Not in Egypt, however.

Blair joined Trump and other world leaders at the Sharm el-Sheikh summit last week that was designed to put the seal on the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas.

There, he was greeted enthusiastically by Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi, evidence of longstanding warm relations and a public display of backing for the former British prime minister.

Since leaving office, the 72-year-old and his consultancy organisation the Tony Blair Institute (TBI) have advised a raft of governments.

Read more: Egypt backs Tony Blair to oversee Gaza as ‘modern-day high commissioner’

 Hamas's armed wing said it would hand over the bodies of two Israeli captives it recovered on Tuesday in Gaza at 9pm (6pm GMT), as part of the group's ceasefire deal with Israel.

The University of Cambridge has announced it will divest from companies involved in producing "controversial weapons", and will vote next month on whether to divest from all arms companies following the publication of a landmark report.

Its announcement comes after years of student pro-Palestine protests and follows one of the university's largest colleges, King's College, deciding it would divest from the arms industry and companies complicit in "the occupation of Ukraine and Palestinian territories".

The report, which followed a year-long review into the university's links to the arms industry, was approved unanimously by the University Council on Monday.

It called for the university's £4.2bn ($5.62bn) endowment fund to divest from "any company which manufactures weapons illegal under UK law, even if those weapons are legal elsewhere", including chemical and biological weapons and cluster munitions.

Cambridge's university council has adopted this as policy. Significantly, it is also set to decide whether to divest from all arms manufacturers in a meeting on 20 November.

Read more: Cambridge University to consider divesting from arms industry amid Gaza protests

The violence that led to the cancellation of the derby football match between Hapoel Tel Aviv and Maccabi Tel Aviv on Sunday was started and escalated by a brutal, politically motivated Israeli police force, eyewitnesses have told Middle East Eye.

The sources, including sports analysts, local residents and football fans, all said that police violence has severely escalated since the appointment of the ultranationalist settler leader Itamar Ben Gvir as national security minister in 2022.

As the government Ben Gvir sits in has waged genocide in Gaza and enforced a brutal military occupation of the West Bank, Israeli football has come under increasing scrutiny.

Maccabi Tel Aviv fans, in particular, have been the focus of a media storm since England's West Midlands Police banned the supporters from attending a Europa League match with Aston Villa on 6 November, citing severe security concerns.

On previous trips to Europe, Maccabi's fans have celebrated the Gaza genocide, incited violence against local residents and sung racist songs.

Israeli police said they cancelled the game because of “public disorder and violent riots” that led to 12 civilians and three police officers sustaining injuries, with one admitted to hospital, as well as to the arrest of nine people after smoke grenades and pyrotechnics were thrown. 

But sports journalists and football fans who witnessed the events told MEE that the police instigated the violence and wounded up to 70 civilians. They also said Maccabi Tel Aviv fans were not to blame. 

Read more: The real story behind the Tel Aviv derby violence

At least 20,058 students have been killed and 31,139 wounded by Israeli forces in Gaza and the occupied West Bank since October 2023, the Palestinian ministry of education and higher education. 

The ministry said at least 19,910 were kiled in Gaza, while 148 students were killed and 846 were arrested in the West Bank. 

Meanwhile, 1,037 teachers and school administrators were killed and 4,740 were wounded in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. A further 228 teachers were arrested in the West Bank.

The Red Cross said it facilitated the transfer of 15 Palestinian bodies from Israel to Gaza as part of the ceasefire deal, taking the total handed over to 165.

"[We] today facilitated the transfer of deceased Palestinians to authorities in Gaza.... Local health authorities in Gaza have confirmed the number of deceased received today is 15," the Red Cross said on Tuesday.

Under the ceasefire agreement, Israel was to turn over the bodies of 15 Palestinians for every deceased Israeli returned. Israel confirmed that Hamas handed over the body of a 13th Israeli captive on Monday.

Israeli football club Maccabi Tel Aviv has decided not to sell any tickets to its fans for the 6 November fixture against Aston Villa in the English city of Birmingham.

The latest development in an absurd saga came after British government ministers repeatedly insisted a West Midlands Police decision to ban the club's fans from attending the game was antisemitic, and promised to overturn the ban. 

On Sunday, amid widespread media and political fury at the ban in the UK, Israeli police cancelled a planned derby between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Hapoel Tel Aviv, after what the police described as "public disorder and violent riots".

According to Jewish News, Maccabi's latest decision to decline any tickets offered to its fans for the match in Birmingham came largely due to an intervention by notorious pro-Israel activist and convicted criminal Tommy Robinson.

Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, urged his followers to protest against "Islamist activists" at the much-debated match and posted a photograph of himself in a Maccabi Tel Aviv shirt.

Read more: Maccabi Tel Aviv declines tickets to UK game after Tommy Robinson vows to defend fans