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Here are the latest updates from Saturday on the cease-fire between Israel and Gaza:
■ Israeli settlers set several vehicles on fire near the village of al-Mughayyir, a Palestinian village in the central West Bank, according to a local report.
■ Over 20 masked settlers attacked Palestinians and human rights activists in the Bedouin community of Mukhmas, southeast of Ramallah in the West Bank.
■ The Israeli military said it had struck and killed a commander in the anti-tank unit of Hezbollah’s Radwan Force Battalion earlier Saturday.
■ Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz said 60 percent of the Hamas’ “terror tunnels” in the Gaza Strip still remain.
■ The IDF said it carried out a targeted strike in the central Gaza Strip on a “terrorist from the Islamic Jihad” who they said planned to attack Israeli soldiers.
■ 19 Palestinians were killed and 7 wounded in Gaza in the past 48 hours, the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry said. According to Hamas, four of the dead were killed by Israeli army fire.
■ An Egyptian team will assist Hamas in Gaza Strip excavations to locate bodies of hostages, an Israeli source said.
■ U.S. President Donald Trump met with Qatar’s Emir and prime minister on Air Force One during a refuel stop in Qatar, and said that the Gaza stabilization force should be ready ‘soon,’ and that Qatar would send peacekeeping troops to Gaza if needed.
■ The United States has begun in recent days monitoring ground activity in Gaza using drones to ensure the U.S.-backed cease-fire deal is upheld, The New York Times reported, citing Israeli and U.S. officials.
■ Hundreds of Israelis protested in front of two prisons in central Israel, where four hostage-deal activists are being detained on charges of arson near Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s residence in Jerusalem in September.
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