Israel’s military chief said on Wednesday “conditions have been created” for the advancement of a hostage release deal in Gaza, as indirect negotiations were under way between Israel and Hamas.

ISRAEL says it has killed one of the last masterminds behind the bloody October 7 attacks. Senior Hamas commander Hakham Muhammad Issa Al-Issa was “eliminated” in a targeted airstrike

The Israeli military said on Tuesday it had struck a "key" figure from Palestinian militant group Hamas near the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, the first targeted killing in the area for several months.

Israel's military claimed Tuesday it had struck a Hamas militant in the Lebanese city of Tripoli in its first strike on the country's north since a November ceasefire ended hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel.

MAX RODENBECK is Project Director for Israel/Palestine at the International Crisis Group. He was previously Bureau Chief for the Economist in the Middle East, South Asia, and Germany.

An investigation by The Associated Press earlier this year uncovered that the Israeli military uses U.S.-made AI models in war to sift through intelligence and intercept communications to learn the movements of its enemies. It’s been used in the wars with Hamas in Gaza and with Hezbollah in Lebanon.

The Israeli military on Wednesday said it had attacked and destroyed Hezbollah positions on Lebanese territory in "special, targeted operations. " In several areas of southern Lebanon, intelligence officials identified weapons and "terrorist infrastructure" belonging to the pro-Iranian militia,