Here are Wednesday’s updates from Israel, Gaza, the West Bank and the Middle East:

â–  29-year-old Salah Jabr was shot to death in Kafr Kana in northern Israel. Since the beginning of the year, 41 people have been murdered, 36 of them from Israel’s Arab community.

â–  Two of the three ultra-Orthodox parties have decided that a military conscription exemption law must pass at any price, and have therefore also decided to support the coalition’s state budget, according to several sources involved in the issue.

â–  As early as April 2018, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received the IDF Intelligence Directorate’s report detailing the Hamas attack that was carried out on October 7, Yedioth Ahronoth reported on Tuesday.

â–  A German diplomat said a recent move by Israel’s security cabinet to allow Israeli law enforcement in Palestinian-controlled areas of the West Bank contravenes Israel’s obligations under international law, calling it a “further obstacle on the path to a two-state solution.”

â–  The IDF said it carried out airstrikes in the Gaza Strip over the past day after Hamas militants fired at Israeli troops from a tunnel in eastern Rafah. Gaza’s Health Ministry said five people were killed in the strikes over the past 24 hours.

â–  Five demonstrators were detained at a protest against government inaction amid a yearslong surge in violence in Arab society in Haifa, according to activists. Riot police were present at the scene.

â–  The United States issued new sanctions against Hezbollah as part of a policy of exerting “maximum pressure against Iran’s regime and its terrorist proxies,” State Department Spokesperson Tommy Pigott said.

â–  The latest draft of a death penalty bill sponsored by the Netanyahu coalition’s far-right Otzma Yehudit party mandates the death sentence for Palestinians convicted of acts of terror that result in murder, but leaves room for Israeli citizens convicted of the same crime to be sentenced to life imprisonment.

â–  A top adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader discussed ways to reach a “balanced and just” agreement with the United States during talks in Oman on Tuesday, as Washington and Tehran prepare to resume negotiations aimed at averting a new conflict.

â–  According to information obtained by the German magazine Der Spiegel, Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, currently the German ambassador to Russia, is to become the new ambassador to Israel.