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.

IDF blowing up yet another place just one hour before the start of the temporary truce in Gaza.

Israeli army is preventing the Gazans from moving back to the north of the Gaza Strip, opening fire.

The destroyed streets of Beit Hanoun in the north of the Gaza Strip.

Preparation for the landing operation of the crews of amphibious landing vehicles of China’s PLA.

Russian and Chinese executives discuss Russia-Crimea tunnel project, WaPo reports.

Russian and Chinese business executives with government ties have held secret discussions on plans to build an underwater tunnel connecting Russia to Crimea in hopes of establishing a transportation route that would be protected from attacks by Ukraine.

Constructing a tunnel near the existing bridge would face enormous obstacles, according to U.S. officials and engineering experts who said work of such magnitude, probably costing billions of dollars and taking years to complete, has never been attempted in a war zone.

China’s largest construction companies has signaled its willingness to participate.

Emails circulated among consortium officials in recent weeks mention meetings with Chinese delegates in Crimea. One dated Oct. 4 describes the Chinese Railway Construction Corporation, CRCC, as “ready to ensure the construction of railway and road construction projects of any complexity in the Crimean region.”

Azerbaijani President Aliyev:

Armenia is one of a few failed and dependent states worldwide trying to serve several patrons.

Iranian Minister of Culture Ezzatollah Zarghami:

One of the first missions that I carried out when I was responsible for manufacturing missiles was to deliver missiles to Hezbollah and Hamas... which is something we are not afraid of and we do not hide it...

I went to the tunnels from which Hamas is fighting today and conducted training courses on missiles inside those tunnels.

Houthi ATGM strike on a antique Yemeni T-34-85 tank.

Egyptian President Sisi lays out “the only solution to the Palestinian issue”:

We are ready for this state to be demilitarized and for there to be guarantees for this in the form of NATO forces, UN forces, Arab forces, American. Whatever you want!

Hamas:

If Israel releases all Palestinian prisoners, we are ready to release all captured Israeli soldiers.

Bild reports a "secret German and American plan":

Zelensky should come to the realization that things cannot go on like this.

The German-American plan: to supply Kyiv with exactly those weapons in exactly the quantities that the Ukrainian Army can hold the current front, but is militarily incapable of retaking the occupied territories.