Updates: Hamas-Israel ceasefire holds

The Israeli military said it claimed an air strike on a Palestinian compound, leaving 13 Hamas members killed, Al Jazeera reported.

In a statement, Israel’s military said its attack on the Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp near Lebanon’s Sidon on Tuesday killed 13 Hamas members at a “training compound” there.

The Palestinian health ministry said that Israeli forces fatally shot two teenagers overnight in the town of Kufr Aqab in the occupied West Bank.

"The young man Amr Khaled Ahmed Al-Marbou and the boy Sami Ibrahim Sami Mashayekh were martyred by occupation forces gunfire in the town of Kufr Aqab near Ramallah," the ministry said in a statement.

The United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) reports that since the US brokered ceasefire, at least 67 children have been killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza.

In its statement, Unicef highlighted that nearly two children are killed each day on average.

The Israeli military has reported that an airstrike in eastern Rafah killed five fighters as they "emerged from a tunnel" in an area under Israeli control, Al Jazeera reported.

According to an official statement, troops from the Nahal Brigade observed the fighters approaching in a way that was deemed an “immediate threat” and coordinated with the Air Force to target them.

The military added that its forces “will continue operations to neutralise any immediate threats” in the area.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reaffirmed his firm rejection of the establishment of a Palestinian state, insisting that Israel will not change its stance even if doing so could secure diplomatic ties with Saudi Arabia, Al-Jazeera reported, citing an Israeli media outlet.

In an interview, Netanyahu said, “There will be no Palestinian state. As simple as that … It's an existential threat to Israel.”

Despite this, the Israeli premier said he remains “cautiously optimistic” about the possibility of reaching a normalisation agreement with Saudi Arabia, though he acknowledged that the conflict in Gaza has delayed progress.

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has said that the worst of Gaza war was over but his country could "still act", Al Jazeera reported.

During an interview, PM Netanyahu said that he believed the Gaza war "or at least the worst of it, is apparently behind us, although we may still have to act there".

"The war in the broader sense, with the seven parallel fronts, is behind us," he remarked.

Activists are protesting Germany’s plans to resume weapons shipments to Israel, ending a partial ban.

Israel has killed more than 300 Palestinians in Gaza since the ceasefire went into effect.