Citing a string of “serious incidents” that resulted in soldiers’ deaths and accidental shootings, Israel’s Chief of General Staff Eyal Zamir instructed a temporary halt to all military training exercises, lasting a day but possibly longer, public broadcaster KAN reported.

The incidents, which occurred over recent weeks, involved soldier fatalities and ammunition mishaps, with a focus on prioritising troop safety.

Among the accidents were an unintended burst of machine gun fire inside a Namer armoured vehicle and a military vehicle striking a landmine, the broadcaster noted.

Other incidents included a troop carrier overturning in a water channel, a soldier falling into a well, and multiple cases of errant shelling and gunfire.

Israel's army said it struck a Hezbollah site in south Lebanon, and killed an operative from the militant group in a separate strike earlier in the day.

"A short while ago, the IDF (military) struck several launchers and a military infrastructure site from which Hezbollah terrorists operated in the area of Nabatieh in southern Lebanon," the military said in a statement, adding it had "struck and eliminated" a Hezbollah operative in the Houla area earlier in the day.

The Israeli army claimed that it found no evidence about the execution of 15 Palestinian medics in southern Gaza last month.

Israeli forces killed 15 Palestinian emergency workers during a rescue mission in western Rafah last month.

A video showed that the victims were shot, and some of them had their hands bound and were buried in an area roughly 200 metres from where their vehicles had last been seen.

Initially, the Israeli army claimed that its forces had opened fire on vehicles that approached in a “suspicious manner” without emergency signals. It later admitted to killing the medics.

Tens of thousands of people rallied in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, in a massive show of solidarity with Palestinians as authorities blocked access to the US embassy with barricades, Israel’s chief ally in its war on Gaza.

The march, one of the largest public gatherings in the country since the Israeli military launched its latest offensive on Gaza last month, was organised by Jamaat-e-Islami, Pakistan’s main religio-political party.

Thousands of women were also in attendance, local broadcaster Geo News reported. Originally planned near the US Embassy, the protest was moved to Zero Point following negotiations between organisers and the Interior Ministry.

Waving Palestine and party flags, protesters filled both sides of the road at Zero Point, chanting slogans such as "Down with Israel," "Down with the US,” and "Labbaik ya Gaza (Gaza, we are here)."

An Israeli probe into the killings of Palestinian medics in Gaza says it has found “professional failures” and a deputy commander will be fired. The findings issued come after the killings of 15 medics last month by Israeli forces.

Israel at first claimed that the medics' vehicles did not have emergency signals when troops opened fire, but later backtracked.

Cellphone video recovered from one of the medics contradicted Israel’s initial account of the shooting.

The military investigation found that the deputy battalion commander, “due to poor night visibility,” assessed that the ambulances belonged to Hamas. Video footage obtained from the incident shows the ambulances had lights flashing.

More than 90,000 displaced Palestinians are currently taking shelter in 115 UN-run facilities across the Gaza Strip amid a humanitarian crisis caused by Israel’s 19-month onslaught, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said.

“An already dire situation is deteriorating due to bombardment and the siege blocking the entry of humanitarian and commercial supplies,” UNRWA said in a statement.

Since March 2, 2025, Israel has kept all Gaza border crossings closed, blocking the entry of essential food, medical, and relief supplies, exacerbating an already dire humanitarian situation, according to multiple reports from international organisations and rights groups.

The UN refugee agency estimated that nearly 420,000 people have been displaced yet again since the breakdown of the ceasefire in March.

Families of Israeli captives in Gaza demonstrated along the border with the Palestinian enclave to demand a prisoner exchange with Palestinians.

“We will not abandon you, you are very close, but you are very far away,” Haaretz newspaper quoted Sylvia Cunio, mother of hostages David and Ariel Cunio, as saying during the rally near the Nir Oz settlement on the Gaza border.

Ilana Gritzewsky, whose husband, Matan Zangauker, is held in Gaza, called on the government to reach a prisoner swap deal with Palestinians. "If you are listening, Matan, don't give up. Don't lose hope. The whole nation is fighting for you to return,” she said.

Israeli estimates suggest that 59 captives remain in Gaza, with 24 believed to be alive. In contrast, over 9,500 Palestinians remain imprisoned in Israel under harsh conditions, including reports of torture, starvation, and medical neglect, according to both Palestinian and Israeli rights organisations.

At least 28 Palestinians were killed as Israeli attacks on Gaza targeted residential homes and tents sheltering displaced families, according to medical sources and eyewitnesses.

Nine people, including women and children, were killed when an Israeli air strike hit a home in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, a medical source told Anadolu.

In the south of the enclave, an Israeli drone targeted a displacement tent in the Al-Mawasi area west of Khan Younis, killing a Palestinian woman and injuring four others, including children.

The Palestinian National Council, the highest decision-making body of the umbrella Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), has called for the protection of journalists amid Israeli attacks on reporters in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

“The Israeli occupation is fully responsible for its crimes against journalists,” the council said in a statement on the eve of Arab Media Day.

“Assaults against journalists are a deliberate attempt to silence the voice of Palestine and annihilate its narrative,” it added.

At least 211 Palestinian journalists have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza since October 2023, according to Palestinian figures.