- Israeli officials are “cautiously optimistic” as ceasefire talks on Gaza are revived though key issues remain outstanding for both Israel and Hamas, Al Jazeera’s correspondent Hamdah Salhut reports.
- Israel’s Mossad spy chief David Barnea will travel to Doha as the head of a negotiating delegation and meet with Qatar’s prime minister before the start of talks, sources tell Al Jazeera, amid reports of a “breakthrough” following Hamas’s latest response to a ceasefire proposal.
- Nasser Hospital, the last functioning in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis, and the Kuwaiti Field Hospital near Rafah will shut services in hours as generators run out of fuel, medical sources say.
- Lebanon’s Hezbollah says it has launched more than 200 rockets and attack drones targeting Israeli military positions in northern Israel, a day after senior commander Muhammad Nimah Nasser was killed in an Israeli strike.
- At least 38,011 people have been killed and 87,445 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza since October 7. The death toll in Israel from the Hamas-led attacks is estimated at 1,139 with dozens of people still held captive in Gaza.
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