Israel News Wed Nov 5

Day 761

- Red Cross vehicles are now heading to a handover site in Gaza City to collect the apparent remains of a deceased hostage from Hamas, the IDF says.

Hamas did not identify the hostage whose body it is set to hand over.

- The US is urging Israel to grant safe passage to the 100 to 200 Hamas fighters currently holed up in a tunnel network on the Israeli-controlled side of the Yellow Line under the southern Gaza city of Rafah, a Middle Eastern diplomat tells The Times of Israel.

- The IDF says it has no information indicating that the body of Lt. Hadar Goldin is being held in a tunnel where Hamas operatives are holed up in southern Gaza’s Rafah.

“These are false claims that harm the family,” the military says, after defense officials claimed that Goldin’s body is assessed to be held in southern Gaza’s Rafah, where some 150 terror operatives are holed up in a tunnel network.

- The IDF says troops deployed to Gaza City’s Shejaiya neighborhood  on the eastern side of the Yellow Line  located a cache of weapons belonging to Hamas.

- A Hamas terrorist who was responsible for holding six Israeli hostages in captivity was killed in an airstrike in the Gaza Strip last month, the IDF and Shin Bet announce.

According to the military, Zeid Zaki Abd al-Hadi Aqel held hostages Bar Kuperstein, Ohad Ben Ami, Maxim Herkin, Elkana Bohbot, Segev Kalfon, and Yosef-Haim Ohana in captivity. All six have since been released.

- The IDF says it killed Hezbollah Radwan Force terrorist Hussein Jaber Dib in a drone strike on a car near Burj Rahal, southern Lebanon;

- Hamas announced it will release the body of a hostage it says was found today in Gaza City’s Shejaiya neighborhood, with the handover scheduled for 9 p.m.

- A senior Israeli official to Al-Jazeera: "We do not aspire to war in Lebanon, but we will not hesitate if necessary. Hezbollah is redeploying in southern Lebanon, which poses a threat of a new war. We see a slowdown in weapons collection in southern Lebanon."

- Two terrorists who crossed the yellow line, approached the forces, and posed an immediate threat to them, were eliminated