Updates: Hamas-Israel ceasefire holds

Israeli armed forces arrested a 16-year-old at the military checkpoint in the occupied West Bank, Al Jazeera reported, quoting Wafa news agency.

The boy was apprehended at the Hamra military checkpoint and was a resident of the Far’a refugee camp.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, facing long-running corruption cases, has submitted a formal pardon request to President Isaac Herzog, the head of state’s office said Sunday.

"The Office of the President is aware that this is an extraordinary request which carries with it significant implications. After receiving all of the relevant opinions, the president will responsibly and sincerely consider the request," Herzog’s office said in a statement.

Qatar has said that Israel must not be allowed to prevent the implementation of Gaza agreement by blocking the second phase of ceasefire deal, Al Jazeera reported citing Qatar’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Majed al-Ansari.

"We don’t believe Israel should be allowed to obstruct the implementation of the agreement," al-Ansari said while speaking to Qatari news outlet al-Araby al-Jadeed.

Noting that efforts were underway to recover the remains of the two remaining Israeli captives, the spokesperson warned that the absence of peace process for Palestinians will not allow any stability in the region.

JERUSALEM: The Israeli army has said that had killed four "terrorists" coming out of tunnels in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

"During the night, four terrorists who had left underground infrastructure in the area were identified. Guided by the Israeli Air Force, the forces eliminated the terrorists," the army said in a statement.

Israeli military aircraft carried out a strike east of the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, targeting an area located behind the so-called yellow line that marks territory under Israeli control, Al Jazeera reported.

Egypt is training hundreds of Palestinian police officers with an eye towards integrating them into a post-war security force in Gaza, a Palestinian official told AFP.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty announced the plan to train 5,000 officers for Gaza during talks with Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa in August.

A first group of more than 500 officers was trained in Cairo in March, and since September, the two-month courses have resumed to welcome hundreds more people, the Palestinian official told AFP on condition of anonymity.

Family members said an Israeli drone strike killed two Palestinian boys in Gaza on Saturday, with Israel's military saying it had identified two suspects "posing an immediate threat".

The military said it saw two people who "conducted suspicious activities".

Uncles of the slain children told AFP the boys were brothers aged eight and 10, and that they had been out looking for firewood.

Mahmud Bassal, spokesman for Gaza's civil defence agency, which operates as a rescue force under Hamas authority, told AFP two brothers were killed in an Israeli drone strike in Bani Suheila, east of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, at around 8:30 am (0630 GMT).

Bassal named them as Fadi and Jumaa Tamer Abu Assi.

Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis confirmed receiving the bodies of the children, adding that their funerals were held in the afternoon.

Mourners grieved over the white body bags, with one man kneeling and putting his arms around one of them.

Alaa Abu Assi, an uncle of the two boys, said they were "innocent children who have no rockets and no bombs", adding that they were "aged eight and 10".

"They were gathering firewood to help their disabled father, who has platinum plates in his legs. We went and found them in pieces, and we brought them back," he told AFP.