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Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz reviewed plans for a full-scale takeover of Gaza City, approved by the security Cabinet. The operation aims to defeat Hamas, rescue hostages, and end the conflict, drawing warnings from Hamas and Israeli opposition over potential human and financial costs.

In a televised statement aired on the group's al-Masirah TV on Wednesday, Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Sarea said the group fired two drones at Ramon airport in southern Israel, and launched another drone towards a "vital target" in Tel Aviv.

Mahmoud Basal, spokesperson for the Civil Defence, said on Friday that in the southern city of Khan Younis, 10 people were killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting a residential home belonging to the Baraka family, while six others, including two children and a woman, died after an airstrike on a barbershop.

The explosions occurred in buses parked in lots in Bat Yam, a southern suburb of Tel Aviv

According to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), the hostages were transferred from central Gaza to the IDF and the Israel Security Agency before crossing into Israel.

The list of the three people intended for release, sent to Israel on Friday, includes 54-year-old Israeli-French citizen Ofer Calderon, 65-year-old Israeli-American citizen Keith Siegel, and 35-year-old Israeli civilian Yarden Bibas.

"Abd al-Hadi Sabah, a Nukhba Platoon Commander in the Western Khan Yunis Battalion was eliminated in an intelligence-based IDF and ISA strike," the IDF wrote on X

Israeli military issues evacuation notice for the site, saying there were Hezbollah facilities there, without giving more details

Gaza government media office condemns the strikes, describing them as the "deliberate targeting of civilians, including children and women

Claims Jaafar Khader Faour was responsible for initiating Hezbollah's first firing order on October 8 last year

According to a report, Israeli soldiers cut off one of Sinwar's fingers for DNA confirmation

Earlier, the IDF had said it killed three terrorists during an operation, north of the Gaza Strip and was investigating the possibility that one of them was Yahya Sinwar.

During his imprisonment, Sinwar led the Supreme Leadership Committee of Hamas prisoners in Israeli jails, helping to manage confrontations with prison authorities during a series of hunger strikes.

Airstrike on an apartment building in northern Lebanon kills at least 21 people, according to Lebanese Red Cross

Says Tel Aviv regards "the entire first line of (southern Lebanese) villages with Hezbollah infrastructure" as its "military targets"

The IDF elaborated that the operations focused on targets located in villages near the border, which pose an "immediate threat" to northern Israeli communities.

The strike on Qaouk follows the death of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah in a deadly airstrike on the group's headquarters in southern Beirut late Friday.

The recent fighting is "intolerable and presents an unacceptable risk of a broader regional escalation, says the joint statement

Military warns residents in southern and eastern Lebanon to evacuate ahead of its widening air campaign against Hezbollah

We have many more capabilities yet to deploy, and we are in a very high state of readiness, both offensively and defensively, says IDF chief