Updates: Hamas-Israel ceasefire holds

Israel's assassination of a senior Hamas commander threatens the viability of the Gaza ceasefire, the chief negotiator of the Palestinian group said on Sunday, calling on US President Donald Trump to demand Israel comply with the terms of the truce.

Hamas chief negotiator Khalil al-Hayya, who lives in exile, confirmed the killing of Saed, the highest-profile assassination of a senior Hamas figure since the truce.

"The continued Israeli violations of the ceasefire agreement [...] and latest assassinations that targeted Saed and others threaten the viability of the agreement," Hayya said.

"We call on mediators, and especially the main guarantor, the US administration and President Donald Trump, to work on obliging Israel to respect the ceasefire and commit to it."

The Palestinian health ministry said Israeli forces killed a 23-year-old man in the occupied West Bank on Sunday after what the army described as an attempted stabbing.

The ministry reported the death of Muhammad Wael al-Sharouf, "who was shot by (Israeli) forces north" of the city of Hebron.

The Israeli military said it targeted three members of the Hezbollah group in southern Lebanon on Sunday.

"Since this morning (Sunday), the IDF (military) has struck three Hezbollah terrorists in several areas in southern Lebanon. The terrorists took part in attempts to re-establish Hezbollah’s terror infrastructure," the military said in a statement.

"Their activities constituted a violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon," it added, referring to a November 2024 ceasefire that sought to end over a year of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah.

An Israeli strike on southern Lebanon on Sunday killed one person, the Lebanese health ministry said, the latest attack despite a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.

In a statement, the ministry said that an "Israeli enemy strike" on a motorcycle in Yater, south Lebanon, killed one person and wounded another.

DOHA: Hamas's Gaza chief Khalil al Hayya has said that the group had a "legitimate right" to hold weapons and that any proposal for the next phases of the Gaza ceasefire must uphold that right.

Resistance and its weapons are a legitimate right guaranteed by international law and are linked to the establishment of a Palestinian state," said al Hayya in a televised address on the group's Al-Aqsa TV.

"We are open to studying any proposals that preserve this right while guaranteeing the establishment of a Palestinian state."

Hamas, on its 38th anniversary, has warned against "colluding with attempts at displacement and re-engineering the Gaza Strip according to the [Israeli] enemy's plan, reported TRT World.

Highlighting a national consensus on a unified Palestinian strategy to tackle Israeli occupation's plans to prevent the establishment of an independent Palestinian state, it categorically rejected "all forms of guardianship or mandate over the Gaza Strip or any inch of our occupied land".

The group also reaffirmed its compliance with the Gaza truce and urged the US and other mediators to compel Israel to cease its violations, open border crossings to allow unrestricted aid into the territory.

Hamas's Gaza chief Khalil al-Hayya confirmed on Sunday that the head of the group's weapons production was killed in an Israeli strike in the Gaza Strip the day before.

Speaking in a televised address on the militant group's Al-Aqsa TV, Hayya said: "The Palestinian people are currently going through difficult times and suffering greatly... with the martyrdom of more than 70,000 people, the latest of whom was the mujahid commander Raed Saad and his companions."

Israel announced on Saturday that it had killed Raed Saad, describing him as "one of the architects" of the October 7, 2023 attack