It marks the last hostage-detainee exchange between Israel and Hamas carried out as part of the first phase of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire reached in October.

Senior Israeli officials, including IDF chief Eyal Zamir, who visited Washington over the weekend, have been pushing the US to strike Iran, but US President Donald Trump is reluctant, Axios reports. The report says that Zamir briefed Joint Chiefs chairman Gen. Dan Caine on Israel’s offensive and defensive plans in the event of war with Iran.

Israel’s current 10-year “Memorandum of Understanding” with the US, under which Israel has received $3.8bn annually, is set to expire in 2028, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he wants US military aid to “taper off” in the coming decade.

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Israel's military statement said Israel remains committed to the "understandings" agreed upon by Israel and Lebanon. Smoke could be seen in the busy Haret Hreik neighborhood, where Israel did not issue an evacuation warning before the strike. The fourth floor of an apartment building was damaged.

HARET HREIK, Lebanon (AP) — Israel on Sunday struck Lebanon’s capital for the first time since June, saying it killed Hezbollah’s chief of staff Haytham Tabtabai and warning the Iran-backed militant group not to rearm and rebuild a year after their ...

Israel agreed to return 15 Palestinian bodies for each hostage recovered, according to the ceasefire terms. It’s unclear if the bodies released Thursday were of Palestinian detainees who died in Israeli custody or bodies taken from Gaza by Israeli troops during the war.