Israeli Finance Ministry estimates the war is costing the economy around $270 million every day, will come with a fiscal price tag estimated at 180 billion shekels ($48 billion) in 2023-2024, according to Leader Capital Markets, a financial advisory powerhouse in Israel.

#BREAKING Türkiye arrests two suspects for spying on behalf of Israeli intelligence.

#BREAKING Qatar says truce in Gaza to start on Friday at 7 a.m.

Houthis dancing on the Israeli-owned ship Galaxy Leader they had captured in the Red Sea.

Hamas armed wing spokesman Abu Ubaida:

We call for escalation of confrontation with Israel on all resistance fronts.

Hamas armed wing spokesman Abu Obaida:

If the enemy's aggression continues, the losses they have suffered are nothing compared to the losses they will suffer.

In Dublin, the capital of Ireland, people took to the streets after an Algerian national attacked 3 children and 2 adults with a knife in the city center.

There are violent clashes between police and protesters who set fire to vehicles at many points.

Irish police chief blames the unrest on a "lunatic, hooligan faction", while the justice minister says a "thuggish and manipulative element" was using the earlier incident to "wreak havoc".

Police earlier said a 5-year-old girl was in emergency care after five people were injured in a knife attack in the city centre.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has asked China for more information on "clusters of undiagnosed pneumonia" reportedly spreading among children in the north of the country.

Reports by non-state media say paediatric hospitals in parts of China are overwhelmed with sick children.

Chinese authorities have attributed a spike in flu-like illnesses this winter to the lifting of Covid measures.

The WHO is urging people in China to take measures to reduce transmission.

China says that the current wave of respiratory illness is due to known viral and bacterial pathogens.

Israeli troops watch the explosion of a building in the Gaza Strip... but suddenly another IDF soldier appears in the potential destruction zone.

Video of tests of a new Russian drone bomber capable of dropping up to 5 ammunition with a total weight of up to 3.5 kilograms.

In the footage, the drops on targets at the training ground are carried out from a height of 120 meters.

White House NSC spokesman John Kirby on Russia’s bombing of Ukraine:

“Into civilian infrastructure, knocking out the heat, knocking out the power… and hitting, quite literally, innocent civilian targets, playgrounds schools, hospitals. It’s utter depravity.”

Israel does exactly the same thing in Gaza, even worse. But Kirby didn’t say not a single thing about this “utter depravity”.

Israel and Hamas entered a four-day ceasefire earlier this morning.

Later today, the first hostages will be released from the Gaza Strip.

After the temporary ceasefire came into effect, the Israeli army dropped threatening leaflets on Gaza from airplanes:

The war is not over yet. Don't think of moving from south to north. You will endanger yourself.

You can go from north to south, but not from south to north.

Israeli intelligence ‘dismissed’ detailed warning of Hamas raid, FT reports.

A senior Israeli military intelligence officer dismissed a detailed warning predicting Hamas’s raid of October 7, calling it an "imaginary scenario".

Sentries on Israel’s border with Gaza, many of them female soldiers who watch and analyse a constant feed of video and other data gathered near the electronic fence surrounding the enclave, sent a detailed report weeks before the attack to the highest-ranking intelligence officer in the southern command.

The report was sent using a secure communications system and contained specific warnings, including that Hamas was training to blow up border posts at several locations, enter Israeli territory and take over kibbutzim.

The lower-ranking soldiers also warned their analysis of several videos showed Hamas was rehearsing taking hostages, and that they felt an attack was imminent.

The memo was triggered by the sighting of a high-ranking Hamas military commander overseeing the training, who was identified by the sentries against a database of faces and identities maintained by Unit 8200, a part of the Israeli intelligence corps.

“This is an imaginary scenario,” the high-ranking intelligence officer replied, according to a description of the communications shared with the Financial Times.

No action was taken.

KAN, Israel’s public broadcaster, reported late on Thursday details of a similar warning sent by low-ranking soldiers to their seniors.

KAN added that the warning included the possibility of an aircraft being downed, and of Hamas raising its flags over Israeli territory.

Jewish American political scientist and activist Norman Finkelstein said he would not condemn Hamas because the inhabitants of Gaza were born into a concentration camp.

Russian MoD received another batch of new Su-35S fighter jets.

Gazans document the IDF forces leaving the northern area of ​​the Gaza Strip.

According to the Gazans, this is an area that was already under the control of the IDF.

Streets of Khan Yunis in the south of the Gaza Strip earlier this morning after the temporary ceasefire came into effect.

Gazans are returning to their homes in the eastern areas of Khan Yunis after the beginning of the ceasefire.

Al-Wehda Street in Gaza, totally destroyed by Israeli strikes.

Gates in and out of Lockheed Martin’s main British weapons factory have been locked down by Palestine Action.