We earlier reported shelling in the town of Baraachit, along with an Israeli drone flying over the city of Tyre.

Israel has continued to occupy large swaths of southern Lebanon despite a June framework agreement that US officials said at the time would “restore Lebanon’s sovereignty”.

“Bibi Netanyahu and I have made a deal that we give Israel $4bn a year, and we made a deal months ago that we’re stopping,” he said during an interview with Fox News, adding that “they’re fine with it”.

“So, it’s just a wasted thing because we’ve already agreed that by the end of this year, we won’t be paying Israel,” he said. Trump clarified that Washington will still “help Israel if they need it”, calling them “a great ally” that can purchase weapons or “whatever they want”.

The US president claimed Netanyahu had originally brought up the idea, quoting the Israeli prime minister as saying that “it would be appropriate if we do not receive aid”.

Of these, 1,764 attacks were carried out by Israeli troops while 1,369 were carried out by settlers, the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission said.

Settler violence alone more than doubled in October from 647 attacks the previous month during pogroms linked to the olive harvest in the occupied West Bank, often under the protection or with the participation of Israeli soldiers, it said.

The daily attacks come despite a US brokered ceasefire between the governments of Israel and Lebanon in June.

Israeli forces continue to occupy about six percent of Lebanese territory, launching attacks and systematically demolishing homes. Some 329,686 people remain displaced inside the country, according to the UN.

Israeli attacks from October 2023 to September 2026 killed 8,920 people and injured 30,595 others, the Lebanese Health Ministry has said. Israel has maintained its military occupation of southern Lebanon since March, when it announced it was installing a “buffer” zone.

According to Israeli media, around 30,000 of these votes have been counted so far out of the 400,000, and the Israeli Central Elections Committee expects the tally to be completed by midday. Among these 30,000 voters, there is a majority for Likud.

An Israeli drone attack on a gathering at the Islamic University campus, west of Gaza City, injured several Palestinians, some of them critically.

Gaza’s Education Ministry said 10 students and one teacher were killed in Israeli attacks on the Strip between October 18 and 24.

“There is a lot of signalling, a lot of posturing suggesting that we are headed for another round of fighting,” he told Al Jazeera in Doha.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was in Israel recently and the United States is bringing a third aircraft carrier to the Middle East. Washington is reportedly evacuating “some of their diplomatic sites and military bases in the region”, Elmasry noted.

“All of that would suggest that the US and Israel are planning another round of attacks on Iran, either soon or very soon,” he said.

“One of the fears is this next round of fighting could actually be more dangerous, more catastrophic than the previous round.”

Quoting local sources, the agency reported that Israeli soldiers searched multiple Palestinian homes and subjected residents to field interrogations during the operations. The agency added that Israeli forces destroyed local property and physically assaulted residents during the raids.

Separately, Israeli forces stormed the city of Tubas on Saturday night and deployed across several of its neighbourhoods, Wafa reported. Local sources told the agency that Israeli soldiers raided and searched the homes of released prisoners, damaging their contents. No arrests were reported.

Israeli forces raided at least 15 towns in the northern West Bank, detaining dozens of Palestinians, Al Jazeera correspondents reported on Saturday.

The military raids targeted several northern cities and towns, including Nablus, Jenin, Tubas and Qalqilya.

“If Israel has the wrong Leader, which would be anyone other than Bibi, America will have to do this work ourselves, and I am not inclined to do so. Bibi Netanyahu has been Strong, Brave, and Brilliant in the face of tremendous opposition, including that coming from even Israel itself,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.

We saw how settlers have been setting fire to olive groves, and the settlers are usually operating under the protection of the Israeli military.

We saw how the settlers’ practices and also behaviour have triggered an international outcry, as the current Israeli government is still under pressure in order to at least crack down on the settlers’ activity in the occupied West Bank.

People there are still living under threat of attack, not just on their agricultural lands, but also on their properties.

We saw how vehicles and houses have been repeatedly hit by settler attacks, which have been used by the Israeli military, apparently, to create a deterrent environment, with Palestinians expected to leave these areas so they can later turn them into Israeli settlements.

Issam Rimawi was shot in the thigh with a rubber-coated metal bullet on Saturday while reporting on the olive harvest in the village of Deir Abu Mash’al, northwest of Ramallah.

Settlers arrived and attacked Palestinians as they were gathering olives. Israeli forces then raided the village and protected the settlers while firing rubber bullets and tear gas.

Dozens of Palestinians subsequently inhaled tear gas.