20-year-old Palestinian Killed by IDF in Clash With Israeli Settlers in West Bank

Here are Sunday’s latest key updates on Israel, Gaza and the West Bank:

■ Senior Hezbollah commander Hatham Abu Ali Tabatabai was killed by the IDF in a strike in Beirut, Lebanon. Hezbollah and IDF confirmed his death later Sunday. According to the Lebanese health ministry, five people were killed and 28 were wounded in the attack.

■ At a cabinet meeting a few hours before the strike, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel will “continue to do everything necessary to prevent Hezbollah from re-establishing its threat capability against us,” adding that “Israel is responsible for its security.” Netanyahu said, “All the talk that ‘we must receive approval for this’ from one source or another – is simply a complete lie. We act independently of anyone.”

■ Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked U.S. President Donald Trump for declaring he would act to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terror organization, in a statement issued Sunday evening.

■ The court granted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s request to shorten the hearing in his criminal trial tomorrow, “due to a diplomatic meeting.”

■ IDF chief of staff Eyal Zamir announced that top commanders who served in the military on October 7 will be dismissed from reserve service, following personal conclusions formulated regarding their responsibility for the failures of October 7.

■A 20-year-old Palestinian man, Bara Khairy Ali Maali, was killed by the IDF during clashes with settlers and Israeli soldiers in the West Bank village of Deir Jarir near Ramallah.

■ A Houthi-controlled court in Yemen’s capital sentenced 17 people to death over accusations of spying for Israel, the United States and Saudi Arabia.

■ Over a dozen supporters of the family of the 14-year-old autistic boy from Jaffa gathered outside the Tel Aviv District court, who has been detained on security offenses and held for five weeks, reporting sexual assault and abuse in prison.

■ An Israeli teenage settler who, along with dozens of others, took part in a violent raid on the Palestinian village of Beit Lid in the West Bank earlier this month, was indicted, Haaretz has learned.

■ Justice Minister Yariv Levin called on the High Court to cancel the temporary injunction preventing retired judge Yosef Ben-Hamo from overseeing the investigation of former Military Advocate General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi and other senior officials in the Military Prosecutor’s Office, after the leak of a video showing the abuse of a Palestinian detainee at the Sde Teiman detention facility.