<p>The IDF has cleared for publication that Staff Sergeant Rotem Sahar-Hadar, 20 from Kfar Aviv, a soldier in the Paratroopers Brigade Reconnaissance Unit, fell in battle in the southern Gaza Strip.</p>

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<p>CIA Director Bill Burns arrived in Israel on Thursday to meet with Mossad Chief David Barnea and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss the recent hostage negotiations, Axios reported citing two sources with knowledge of the issue.</p>

Live news broadcast interrupted by rocket barrage,projectile strikes power line, knocking out power in multiple communities.

<p>Kibbutz Nir Oz announced this evening (Thursday) that Yair Yaakov, 59, who was kidnapped on October 7, was murdered by Hamas the day of his kidnapping and the terrorist organization still holds his body.</p><p>Yair left behind three children: Shir (21), Or (17) and Vigil (13). His two youngest children were also kidnapped on October 7 from their mother's house and released in November. His partner Meirav Tal was kidnapped together with him and was also released in November.</p><p>The terrorists used grenades to breach the door to Yair's safe room in order to kidnap him and Meirav. </p>

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Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem, Aryeh King, demanded the immediate eviction of the UNRWA-Gaza and its personnel from Jerusalem at the demonstration he organized in front of the Agency`s premises in the Capital’s neighborhood of French Hill.

<p>During joint IDF and ISA operational activity in Gaza City on Wednesday, Ahmed Ghoul, a commander in Hamas' Shati Battalion who participated in the October 7th massacre, was eliminated by an aircraft.</p><p>After he returned to Shati in the Gaza Strip, Ghoul held IDF soldier Cpl. Noa Marciano hostage, who was murdered by the Hamas terrorist organization inside the Shifa Hospital.</p>