Here are Tuesday’s latest updates on Israel, Gaza and the West Bank:
■ Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Tuesday that Israel will establish in northern Gaza communities instead of those cleared during the 2005 disengagement from the Gaza Strip. “We are deep in Gaza and we will never leave all of it,” the defense minister said.
■ Israeli President Isaac Herzog is set to visit Australia after being invited by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and the Zionist Federation of Australia, according to a statement on the president’s behalf, in the wake of the deadly Hannukah attack at Sydney’s Bondi Beach earlier this month.
■ Israeli authorities arrested five Israeli citizens on suspicion of raiding a family home overnight into Tuesday in a West Bank Palestinian village, wounding a mother and her three children, slaughtering two of the family’s sheep and damaging property.
■ A group representing relatives of victims and survivors of Hamas’ October 7 attack has appealed to the head of Israel’s Shin Bet, demanding an urgent probe into “suspected treason” within the Prime Minister’s Office, following an interview with Eli Feldstein, former spokesman for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, aired the previous day on Israel’s public broadcaster.
■ The Israeli military said it killed three Hezbollah militants near Sidon in southern Lebanon as they sought to rebuild the group’s military operations, noting that one also served in the Lebanese army’s intelligence unit.