Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged only that Israel had been working with “clans.” But the opposition leader warned that the “weapons going into Gaza will eventually be pointed at Israeli soldiers and civilians.

The Israeli prime minister's comments on social media were the first public acknowledgment of Israel’s backing of armed Palestinian groups within Gaza, based around powerful families.

Israel’s military killed at least 95 people in Gaza in the past 24 hours, according to Gaza’s health ministry.

Israel says the body of Nattapong Pinta was retrieved in a special military operation. He had come to Israel to work in agriculture.

Israel says it has retrieved the body of a Thai hostage abducted to Gaza during the 2023 Hamas-led attack that sparked the Israel-Hamas war.