Israeli strikes continue in southern and eastern Lebanon despite a ceasefire.
The ceasefire in Gaza is broadly holding, despite sporadic clashes between the Israel Defense Forces and Gaza militants -- plus deadly IDF airstrikes.
Israeli forces inside the strip have pulled back to the so-called "yellow line." Israel Defense Forces chief Eyal Zamir said the position constitutes "a new border line" with Gaza.
The ceasefire is still in the first of three proposed phases. The details of the second phase of the agreement are yet to be agreed. The remains of one deceased hostage are still thought to be in Gaza.
Israeli strikes are also ongoing against alleged Hezbollah targets in southern and eastern Lebanon.
The Israel Defense Forces said it attacked two more "terrorists" in Lebanon on Wednesday and Thursday.
The first strike on Wednesday targeted an alleged Hezbollah fighter in the southern Janta region, the IDF said in a post to X. In another post on Thursday, the IDF said it also targeted a person in the Nazriya area.
A combat officer with the Israeli military was wounded by an improvised explosive device that was detonated near Rafah, the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement Wednesday.
The officer was “lightly injured” after the device was detonated against an IDF vehicle “during operational activity,” the IDF said.
The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office released a statement saying Hamas continues to violate the ceasefire agreement and President Donald Trump’s peace plan.
“Their ongoing and continuing public refusal to disarm is an ongoing flagrant violation and again today their violent intentions and violations were confirmed by their detonation of an IED that wounded an IDF officer,” the statement from the Prime Minister’s Office stated.
“Israel will respond accordingly,” the statement said.
-ABC News’ Dorit Long
The Israel Defense Forces said it "eliminated" one alleged Hezbollah member in a strike in southern Lebanon on Sunday.
The IDF said in a post to X that it targeted two alleged Hezbollah operatives in the Yater area of southern Lebanon. The force claimed that the person killed "was involved in attempts to rehabilitate Hezbollah military infrastructure in the area."
Hezbollah later released a statement confirming that one of its members from Yater was killed.
Over the past week, the IDF said that its 91st Division killed four alleged militants in southern Lebanon.
Israel's cabinet approved a proposal for 19 new settlements in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, according to a post on X by Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who is also the chairman of the far-right Religious Zionist Party.
Israel has established a record 69 new settlements over the last three years, Smotrich said.
"We are blocking the establishment of a Palestinian terrorist state on the ground. We will continue to develop, build and settle in the land of our ancestors," Smotrich added.
Smotrich is one of the country's most vocal proponents of Israeli settlements in both the West Bank and Gaza.
The rate of Israeli West Bank settlement expansion has increased significantly under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's current government, according to United Nations figures.
"All Israeli settlements in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and related infrastructure have no legal validity and violate international law and U.N. resolutions," said Ramiz Alakbarov -- the U.N. deputy special coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process -- earlier this month.
Settlement advancement during 2025 "reached its highest level since U.N. tracking began in 2017," Alakbarov added.
-ABC News' Dorit Long and Somayeh Malekian
