The Bottom Line
- The war between Israel and Hamas enters its 91st day this Friday.
- The head of Lebanon's Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, said yesterday: "If the enemy thinks it is waging a war against Lebanon, our fight will be limitless, without rules. (...) We are not afraid of war."
- The remarks came after Hamas' second-in-command, Saleh-al-Arouri, was killed Tuesday in a strike attributed to Israel near Beirut. More than a thousand people attended his funeral.
- The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack that killed 84 people in Iran on Wednesday.
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Israeli Defense Minister Unveils Gaza Plan
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Thursday night presented his first "post-war" plan for the Gaza Strip, according to which there would be "no Hamas" or "Israeli civil administration" in place in the Palestinian territory after the fighting ended. Yoav Gallant unveiled the broad outlines of the plan to the press before submitting it to Benjamin Netanyahu's war cabinet, which has been divided in recent weeks over the way forward in the war against the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, which has ruled Gaza since 2007.
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Welcome to this live coverage of the war between Israel and Hamas.