Israeli forces bombed two more schools in Gaza City, killing at least 30 displaced Palestinians. Paramedics said 80 percent of those killed and wounded at the Hassan Salama and Nassr schools were children.

    Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian again pledged to retaliate for the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, telling the visiting Jordanian foreign minister that Israel made a “big mistake” in killing the Hamas leader.

    Italy and Turkey joined a host of countries urging their citizens to leave Lebanon as fears of a regional war grew and Israel and Hezbollah continued to trade fire.

    At least 39,583 people were killed and 91,398 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks on October 7 and more than 200 were taken captive.

    Israeli forces demolish 2 homes northeast of Jenin, occupied West Bank

    Israeli forces have demolished two houses in the village of al-Jalameh, northeast of Jenin, in the occupied West Bank, according to the Wafa news agency.

    The head of the village council, Radwan Shaaban, told Wafa that Israeli forces stormed the village accompanied by three bulldozers and demolished the two houses.

    One of the houses, measuring 170 square metres (1,830 square feet), belonged to Jamal Abu Farha, and the second, measuring 220sq metres (2,368sq feet), belonged to Hashem Mahmoud Abu Farha.

    Shaaban said Abu Farha had just finished preparing his home to house his son, who is due to get married soon and was scheduled to move in.

    Last month, Israeli authorities conducted 98 demolition operations, affecting 135 facilities, including 62 inhabited homes, 14 uninhabited ones and 12 agricultural facilities.

    According to the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission (CRRC), authorities also issued notifications, including orders to demolish 16 other homes and facilities in the occupied West Bank governorates.

    Hezbollah claims to have hit Israeli military site near Malkia

    The Lebanese group says its drone attack on an Israeli military site near the Malkia settlement in northern Israel hit “its targets accurately”.

    Earlier, the Israeli army said it had intercepted a “suspicious aerial target” that crossed from Lebanon in the Western Galilee area. The statement said the UAV fell in the area of Malkia, with no injuries reported.

    Israel expanding settlements to prevent Palestinian statehood: Smotrich

    Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich says the Israeli government is working “to remove the threat” of Palestinian statehood as Western countries, including its ally the US, call for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

    He said on X that any path to “this agenda” would be blocked through “strengthening settlements in construction, development, establishment and regulation of settlements and infrastructure”.

    “Stopping the Arab takeover of the open areas, fighting the terrorist financing of the Palestinian Authority and its leaders and complete Israeli control of the territory [the occupied West Bank]. This is the only way,” Smotrich added.