■ The Israeli military has found the remains of Ran Gvili, Israel’s last remaining hostage in Gaza, 843 days after he was killed on October 7. The IDF said that Gvili’s body was found and identified in a mass grave in a Gaza City cemetery, after 250 bodies were examined following intelligence received last week.

■ Following the location of the body of Ran Gvili, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the Knesset plenum that “the next stage is not reconstruction, it is the disarmament of Hamas and the demilitarization of the Gaza Strip.” Hamas responded to Gvili’s return by saying that “finding the body of the last Israeli prisoner confirms our commitment to all the demands of the agreement to cease the war on the Gaza Strip.”

■ A UN expert on Iran said on Monday she had ‌received reports of protesters linked to nationwide demonstrations being removed from hospitals and detained by Iranian security forces – a major violation of ⁠the right to medical care under international law.

■ Five right-wing activists attacked human rights activists near the village of Duma, close to Nablus in the West Bank, a human rights activist who was there told Haaretz.

■ The ‌United Arab Emirates ⁠said on ‌Monday it would ‍not let its airspace, ‍territory or territorial ‌waters be used for any hostile military actions against ‌Iran, the foreign ministry said, reaffirming ‌its commitment ‍to neutrality and ⁠regional stability.

■ In a hearing on a petition by the Foreign Press Association in Israel (FPA) demanding that journalists be allowed to enter the Gaza Strip, a representative of the Israeli government said that opening the Rafah crossing between Egypt and Gaza will not necessarily allow journalists to enter the Strip.

■ The leader of ‍Lebanon’s Iran-aligned Hezbollah ‍movement said that ‌his group was concerned about confronting Washington’s threat against ⁠Iran, saying that “we are concerned with what is happening… We will choose in due course how to act, whether to intervene or not… but ‌we are not neutral.”

■ National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said police forces entered the village of Tarabin in southern Israel on Monday morning to “demolish illegal structures.”

■ On Monday, after the first reading of the state budget was postponed because of clashes with the ultra-Orthodox factions over the draft exemption bill, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said “a state budget can never be anyone’s leverage, certainly not during a time of war.”