The Trump administration is working on a plan to permanently relocate as much as one million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Libya, NBC News reported on Friday, citing five people with knowledge of the matter.
Citing two people with direct knowledge and a former US official, NBC also reported that the plan is under serious enough consideration that the US has discussed it with Libya's leadership.
Edan Alexander, an American-Israeli released from Hamas captivity on Monday, revealed details of his time as a hostage on Friday when he was released from the hospital, N12 reported.
Alexander told his family that he was moved around Gaza from hiding place to hiding place, at one point travelling through a busy market in a donkey cart alongside a terrorist disguised as a woman.
The IDF announced that it had begun Operation "Gideon's Chariots" in Gaza in a Friday night statement.
The military said that it had launched several strikes and deployed forces to seize swaths of land in the Gaza Strip to renew its offensive in the enclave.
The Jerusalem Post reported that the IDF, in cooperation with the Shin Bet, struck over 150 terrorist targets in Gaza on Friday.
The Air Force has attacked the Gaza Strip 60 times since Friday morning, with a bomb being heard every four minutes, Maariv reported. The IAF also targeted Beit Lahiya and Jabalya in northern Gaza with heavy airstrikes overnight on Thursday.
There has been no progress three days into the Gaza deal negotiations in Doha, Qatar, an Israeli source told The Jerusalem Post on Friday.
A 25-year-old police officer was wounded in a suspected stabbing attack in Jerusalem's Old City on Friday, police and Magen David Adom reported.
The IDF began a wide-scale operation to evacuate the Palestinian population from northern Gaza on Friday ahead of a significant ground operation as part of the effort to topple Hamas rule and return the hostages.
The IDF is striking the Hodeidah, Ras Isa, and Al-Salif ports in Yemen after the Houthis continued launching missiles at Israel, an Israeli official told The Jerusalem Post on Friday, following reports in Sky News in Arabic.
It is unclear if the IDF gave an evacuation warning as it did for previous strikes, however, on Wednesday, it did issue evacuation warnings, without attacking.
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, has stepped down temporarily as a probe into his alleged sexual misconduct by United Nations investigators nears its end, court sources told Reuters on Friday.
The Israel Air Force, with intelligence from the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency), struck over 150 terrorist targets throughout the Gaza Strip, including anti-tank missile posts, terror cells, military structures, and operational centers utilized by terrorists to carry out attacks against IDF soldiers, the military confirmed on Friday.
The IAF targeted Beit Lahiya and Jabalya in northern Gaza with heavy airstrikes on Thursday overnight, The Jerusalem Post learned.
US President Donald Trump said on Friday that "we're monitoring what's happening in Gaza and we're going to address it - people are starving there," while concluding his Gulf tour in Abu Dhabi.
