Updates: Hamas-Israel ceasefire holds

The Israeli military claimed that it killed Hamas Commander Muhammad Jawad Muhammad al-Bawab, at the Eastern Rafah Battalion, in an attack on Sunday, Al Jazeera reported.

The attack claimed two more lives, including his deputy commander, Ismail Kanaan Abd al-Hay Abu Labdeh.

The Israeli military said that al-Bawab was killed while exiting underground infrastructure in eastern Rafah and that the attack also killed a security guard named Abdullah Azi Ahmed Hama and a regional Hamas platoon leader named Tawfiq Khaled Tawfiq Salem.

Israel's Army Radio, citing security sources, said that Yasser Abu Shabab, the most prominent anti-Hamas clan leader in Gaza, had died in a hospital in southern Israel of wounds sustained earlier.

The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affair condemned the deaths of death of three Palestinians in Israeli custody, Al Jazeera reported.

In a statement, the prisoners’ group said that prisoners continue to die in detention due to torture, starvation, medical negligence, sexual assault, and systematic violation of human rights.

Israeli troops entered the town of Qabatiya, located south of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, continuing a series of arrests and forced displacements that have now stretched into a third consecutive day, Al Jazeera reported.

During the operation, the military enforced a curfew and severely limited Palestinian movement while searching homes.

Israeli soldiers also carried out raids in Qalqilya, sealing off all routes leading into the city, Al Jazeera reported, citing Wafa news agency.

BEIJING: China will provide $100 million in aid to the Palestinians to help alleviate the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and support reconstruction efforts, said President Xi Jinping.

Xi was speaking at a joint press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron after their meeting in Beijing.

Israel has identified on Thursday the remains of the hostage it received from Hamas as Thai national Sudthisak Rinthalak, according to the prime minister's office.

The body of Israeli Ran Gvili, the last of the living and deceased hostages to be returned, is still in Gaza.

Hamas agreed to hand over all living and deceased hostages held in Gaza as part of the initial ceasefire deal outlined in US President Donald Trump's plan to end the war.

Gaza's civil defence agency told AFP on Wednesday that an Israeli strike on the Palestinian territory killed five people, including two children.

The Israeli military said it had struck a Hamas fighter in southern Gaza in response to a clash with Palestinians in the area that wounded five soldiers.

"Five citizens, including two children, killed and others injured, some seriously, as a result of an Israeli missile strike" in Al-Mawasi, west of Khan Yunis, civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP.

The agency said the strike hit near the Kuwaiti Field Hospital in Khan Yunis and "targeted" a shelter camp.

The hospital also reported that five people, including two children aged eight and 10, were killed and another 32 were wounded.

A fragile US-brokered ceasefire that came into effect on October 10 has largely halted the fighting between Israel and Hamas, but both sides have accused each other of violating its terms.

The Israeli military said earlier on Wednesday that during an operation in the area of eastern Rafah, soldiers encountered several fighters "who emerged from an underground terrorist infrastructure".