🇮🇱 The Mid-East Reel

The Hamas-run health ministry in the Gaza Strip reports that 50 people were killed in the Israeli strike in Rafah.

The Israeli military confirms carrying out an airstrike in southern Gaza's Rafah earlier this evening, targeting what it says was a Hamas compound where senior officials in the terror group were gathered. "The attack was carried out against terrorists who are a target for attack, in accordance with international law, using precision munitions, and based on intelligence indicating the use of the area by Hamas terrorists," the IDF says in a statement. The military says it is aware of reports that the strike and a fire that spread into a camp for displaced Palestinians caused causalities among civilians. It says the incident is under further investigation.

Hamas health authorities in the Gaza Strip are reporting a high number of causalities in a reported Israeli strike in a camp for displaced Palestinians in northwestern Rafah. The military says it is looking into the reports.

The military in a short statement says it "clarifies that there is no truth to the rumors about the return of hostages in recent hours." Rumors had circulated on social media today claiming that the bodies of hostages had been recovered from the Gaza Strip.

Police spokeswoman: In the last few hours, hundreds of lawbreakers began to confront the police at Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai's grave in Miron, and as a result, 19 police officers were injured. So far, over 1,000 unauthorized people have been removed from the site and thousands more have been blocked on the roads leading to the site. -חדשות מהשטח

The Israel Police: Following the video in which a police officer in the reserves is seen pushing an elderly man in a miron - we will make it clear that we take the conduct seriously and accordingly the officer has been removed from activity until the circumstances of the incident are clarified. -חדשות מהשטח

The policewoman who kicked an elderly woman during the clashes in Miron was suspended.

Minister Aryeh Deri reacts to the footage from Miron in which a police officer is seen pushing an elderly man from behind: "Intolerable footage. A crime that will not be forgiven. The Israel Police must announce today that it immediately removes the police officer from his position and prosecutes him." -חדשות מהשטח

A delegation led by Director General of the Defense Ministry Eyal Zamir will travel to Washington DC this week to discuss "the strengthening of defense-strategic cooperation [with the United States], with an emphasis on the procurement processes, to preserve Israel's qualitative edge in the region," the ministry says. The ministry says Defense Minister Yoav Gallant ordered the visit. Zamir will meet with officials at the US Department of Defense and Department of State, according to the ministry. He will be joined by the head of the ministry's Political-Military Bureau, Dror Shalom, the head of the ministry's Directorate of Defense R&D, Danny Gold, Israel's defense attaché to the US, Maj. Gen. Hidai Zilberman, and the ministry's representative in Washington, Omer Haim, among other officials.

IDF spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari in a press conference says the site was some 800 meters from where Israeli troops were operating. "As the IDF forces approached [the area of the launch], Hamas fired the rockets from within the [civilian] population. We see this pattern in many places where we operate. Hamas fears [losing] these munitions and rockets, and it fires them when it sees IDF troops approaching," Hagari says.