IDF: Red Cross received bodies of the three hostages from Hamas. One is of Israeli Colonel Hamami

Police and the IDF are searching for resigned army chief lawyer Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, after her car was found near Cliff Beach in Tel Aviv with a letter inside it, Israel media report. Tomer-Yerushalmi resigned last week after Defence Minister Israel Katz attempted to dismiss her for authorising the leak of violence against a Palestinian detainee in Sde Teiman caught on video surveillance. Ynet writes that the woman was expected to be interrogated in the coming days on charges of obstructing an investigation, leaking classified information and making a false affidavit. There has been no contact with the woman since this morning.

Il primo ministro israeliano, Benyamin Netanyahu, ha avvertito che Hezbollah sta cercando di riarmarsi e che Israele eserciterà il proprio “diritto alla difesa”. All’inizio di una riunione di governo, secondo una nota ufficiale, Netanyahu ha dichiarato che Israele “agirà, se necessario” qualora il Libano non adotti misure per disarmare il gruppo. “Hezbollah subisce colpi continuamente, anche in questi giorni, ma sta cercando di armarsi e di riprendersi. Ci aspettiamo che il governo libanese faccia ciò a cui si è impegnato, ossia disarmare Hezbollah, ma è chiaro che eserciteremo il nostro diritto alla legittima difesa nei termini previsti dalle condizioni del cessate il fuoco”, di novembre 2024, ha detto Netanyahu durante l’incontro settimanale dell’esecutivo. “Non permetteremo che il Libano diventi un nuovo fronte contro di noi, e agiremo se necessario”, ha aggiunto.

L’ondata di violenza scatenata dai coloni israeliani contro gli agricoltori della Cisgiordania ha fatto sì che ottobre 2025 sia sulla buona strada per diventare il mese più violento da quando l’Unrwa ha iniziato a indagare sugli attacchi coloniali nel 2013. Lo ha riferito l’agenzia delle Nazioni Unite per i rifugiati nella sua ultima valutazione della sicurezza nei territori palestinesi. L’Unrwa stima che solo nel mese di ottobre i coloni abbiano distrutto circa 3.000 ulivi, fondamentali per la già precaria economia palestinese. A questo proposito, va ricordato che la commissione palestinese incaricata di raccogliere dati sulla violenza israeliana in Cisgiordania, la Commissione per il muro e gli insediamenti, ha stimato che da agosto, inizio della stagione della raccolta delle olive, i coloni hanno sferrato 141 attacchi e che l’esercito ne ha effettuati altri 14 contro gli agricoltori o contro le piantagioni di ulivi della regione.

The crisis generated by the Israeli attacks in the West Bank has regained visibility with the ceasefire in Gaza and the approval by the Israeli Parliament in the first reading of a proposal to complete the illegal annexation of the territory, a circumstance that not even the United States, Israel's great ally, takes into consideration. In total, since August, settlers and the army have been responsible for the destruction and damage of a total of 48,728 trees, including 37,237 olive trees, according to the commission, in its balance sheet collected by the official Wafa news agency.

One of the main proposals for the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip that the Trump administration has presented to potential donor countries in the Gulf involves the construction of around half a dozen residential areas in the eastern half of the Strip, which is currently under Israeli control. The Times of Israel writes this, citing two Arab diplomats familiar with the matter, who say that the proposal has been coolly received by the Gulf States.

Diplomats said that"new Gaza" is the term frequently used by US officials to describe the project. Trump's plan to end the war calls for the Israeli Defence Forces to gradually withdraw until they abandon the Strip altogether. However, such a withdrawal is tied to the success of a yet-to-be-established International Stabilisation Force - tasked with protecting post-war Gaza - and the disarmament of Hamas, which has shown no interest in giving up its weapons. With these two conditions so difficult to meet - the Times of Israel reports - the US is pushing to begin the reconstruction process, and Trump's top adviser, Jared Kushner, has indicated that Washington wants to start on the Israeli side of the Yellow Line, specifically the southern city of Rafah.

The US proposal envisages up to one million Palestinians - about half of Gaza's population - moving into residential areas on the Israeli side of the Yellow Line. These areas will be built within two years, even if the IDF forces do not withdraw by then, said the two diplomats briefed on the plan, adding that they considered this parameter to be highly unrealistic.

"The Palestinians may not want to live under Hamas rule, but the idea that they are willing to move under Israeli occupation and submit to those they hold responsible for killing 70,000 of their brothers is fantasy," said one of the Arab diplomats. While the White House did not respond to requests for comment, a US official dismissed the idea that the Trump administration has decided on a specific plan for post-conflict management of Gaza, insisting that the initiative is still in its early stages and that many ideas are under discussion.

Meanwhile, Hamas rejects US accusations that the terrorist group looted an aid convoy in Gaza. "The US Central Command's accusations are false, lack evidence on the ground and are part of a systematic disinformation campaign," says a statement issued by the Hamas-run Gaza government press office. The statement comes after the US Central Command (Centcom) released a drone video over the weekend showing what it said were suspected Hamas operatives looting an aid truck in southern Gaza on Friday.