Rescuers use excavators to remove rubble from a destroyed building that was hit by an Israeli airstrike Tuesday night as they search for victims in Sarafand, southern Lebanon, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Palestinian officials said Thursday that an Israeli military raid in the occupied West Bank killed at least three people.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced on Thursday that two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli strike and a third by Israeli gunfire. The Israeli military said its forces were targeting militants in the area Nur Shams refugee campwhich has seen repeated battles in recent months. The army said it had eliminated a Hamas militant in the area who was involved in planning attacks on Israelis.

Also Thursday, Israeli police said they had arrested a couple accused of spying on Israeli intelligence websites and gathering information about an Israeli academic on behalf of Iran.

Meanwhile, the mediators are stepping up efforts to stop the wars in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip, new cease-fire proposals are circulating regional conflict.

to Hezbollah newly appointed leader, Naim Kassemsaid the militant group will keep fighting his war with Israel until it is offered ceasefire terms it deems acceptable.

About 1.2 million people were displaced by conflict in Lebanonaccording to government estimates. Lebanon’s Health Ministry said more than 2,800 people had been killed and 12,900 wounded since October 8, 2023, when Hezbollah began firing rockets into Israel, drawing retaliation. Israeli ground forces invaded southern Lebanon in early October.

Death toll from more than a year of Israel-Hamas war in Gaza it exceeded 43,000, Palestinian officials reported Monday, without distinguishing between civilians and combatants. The war began after Hamas-led militants stormed into Israel on October 7, 2023, killing an estimated 1,200 people – mostly civilians – and kidnapping another 250.

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Israeli airstrikes kill 8 people in eastern and southern Lebanon

BEIRUT — The Israeli military has warned people to evacuate several areas in southern Lebanon, including a Palestinian refugee camp being built. Meanwhile, Israeli airstrikes killed at least eight people in different parts of the country on Thursday.

The Rashidiyeh refugee camp near the port city of Tire is one of several dating back the 1948 war in the Middle Eastwhen hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled or were driven out of what is now Israel.

Israel invaded Lebanon in early October after nearly a year of firefights with Hezbollah. The militant group began firing missiles, rockets and drones into northern Israel after the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack triggered the Gaza war. Iran supports both groups.

Israel warned people to evacuate large areas of the country, including major cities in the south and east. Over a million people have already fled their homes.

Israeli strikes killed seven people in eastern Lebanon, according to Lebanon’s state-run National News agency. Another hit killed a man on a motorcycle on the coastal highway between Tire and Sidon.

The news agency also reported a strike on a car on a main highway that cuts through the mountains outside the capital, Beirut. The strike was said to have closed the highway, diverting traffic through nearby villages. There was no immediate word on the victims.

Israeli police arrest a couple accused of spying for Iran

Jerusalem — Israeli police announced Thursday that they had arrested a couple accused of spying on Israeli intelligence websites and gathering information about an Israeli academic on behalf of Iran.

Israeli security services say they have uncovered several Iranian espionage networks in recent months. The two enemies have been waging a long-running shadow war that has erupted since the outbreak of the Gaza war. They exchanged direct fire for the first time in April and then again this month.

In a statement released on Thursday, police and the Shin Bet domestic security agency said the man arrested, Rafael Guliev, from the central city of Lod, surveilled Israel’s Mossad spy headquarters for the Iranians and gathered information on an academic who worked at the Institute . for National Security Studies, a major Israeli think tank. He did not identify the scientist.

The statement said Guliev was also tasked with finding an assassin, although the statement did not clarify whether he actually did.

Guliev’s wife, Lala, attended the activities, the statement said.

West Bank officials say three people were killed in the Israeli raid

RAMALLAH, West Bank — Palestinian officials say an Israeli military raid in the occupied West Bank has killed at least three people.

The army said its forces were targeting militants in the area Nur Shams refugee campwhich has seen repeated battles in recent months. The army said it had eliminated a Hamas militant in the area who was involved in planning attacks on Israelis.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced on Thursday that two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli strike and a third by Israeli gunfire.

Israel said its forces were still in the area.

At least 763 Palestinians, including more than 165 children, have been killed by Israeli fire in the West Bank since the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack in the Gaza Strip sparked the war there, according to the Health Ministry.

Most appear to have been militants killed during army operations, but the dead also include civilian bystanders and people killed during violent protests.

Palestinians have carried out dozens of stabbing, shooting and car-ramming attacks against Israelis since the start of the war.

Israel captured the West Bank in the 1967 Middle East war, and the Palestinians want it to form the main part of their future state. Israel has built dozens of settlements there that are now home to more than 500,000 Israeli settlers.

The territory’s 3 million Palestinians live under seemingly unlimited Israeli military rule, with the Western-backed Palestinian Authority exercising limited autonomy in population centers.

Israeli soldiers cry during the funeral of reservist Yedidia Bloch, 31, in the West Bank settlement of Mevo Horon, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024. Bloch died on Tuesday, the 29th, after being wounded in Lebanon. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides speaks to the media after meeting with President Joe Biden at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

People watch newly appointed Hezbollah leader Naim Kassem deliver a televised speech in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)