Here are Friday’s latest updates from Israel, Gaza, the West Bank and the Middle East.
■ Masked Israelis set several vehicles belonging to Palestinians in the West Bank on fire. Three suspects were arrested for questioning, and according to the Red Crescent, three Palestinians were wounded in the incident. The IDF said four vehicles were caught on fire.
■ Four people, including two children, were reportedly killed in an Israeli drone strike on the Mawasi tents camp housing displaced persons in Gaza’s Khan Yunis.
■ IDF said a projectile was launched from Gaza City towards Israel, but fell within the Gaza Strip.
■ The Lebanese army said it had achieved the goal of a state monopoly on arms in the south of the country, but said there was more work to be done to clear unexploded ordnance and tunnels in the area.
■ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said in response to the Lebanese army’s statement that the efforts are “an encouraging beginning, but are far from sufficient.”
■ The IDF said a Hezbollah militant was struck in Zaita in southern Lebanon “in response to Hezbollah’s continued violations” of cease-fire understandings.
■ A 15-year-old from northern Israel was indicted on suspicion of swearing allegiance to the Islamic State and planning to carry out an attack, according to the Shin Bet and Israel Police.
■ Australia will hold a Royal Commission inquiry into the Bondi Beach mass shooting in which 15 were killed, the country’s most powerful public inquiry, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Thursday.
■ Iran’s foreign minister said Tehran remains open to negotiations with the U.S if they are based on ‘mutual respect and interests,’ but is also ready for war if that is Washington’s intent.
■ A court ordered the bus driver who ran over and killed an ultra-Orthodox teenager at a Jerusalem protest on Tuesday to be released to house arrest.