Here are Monday’s latest updates on Israel, Gaza, the West Bank, the Middle East and the Jewish World:
■ Israel Police has admitted for the first time that Israel “Srulik” Einhorn, a former associate of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who is embroiled in the Qatargate affair, is a fugitive criminal, and has an arrest warrant against him.
■ Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s chief of staff, Tzachi Braverman, filed an appeal against a court decision barring him from the Prime Minister’s Office for 15 days and from leaving the country for a month after being detained by police on Sunday for a day-long questioning.
■ Israel’s coalition is advancing a bill to abolish the offense of fraud and breach of trust, with which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is charged in all of his criminal cases.
■ Iran said communications with Washington remain open, as U.S. President Donald Trump says Iran had called to negotiate its nuclear program.
■ Israel Police and Border Police arrested eight suspects during an overnight raid on the Shoafat refugee camp in Jerusalem, seizing weapons, ammunitions and drugs.
■ Palestinian authorities in Gaza said that the head of the Khan Yunis police’s investigations unit was killed by gunfire in the Mawasi humanitarian zone on Monday.
■ Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip said three people were killed in two separate Israeli drone strikes and that a woman was wounded by Israeli gunfire south of Khan Yunis.
■ Lebanon’s Health Ministry said on Monday that a local council member of the Bint Jbeil municipality in southern Lebanon, Mohamed Adel Al Sagheer, was killed in an IDF strike the day prior.
■ Three Israeli residents were sentenced to 36-40 months in prison for looting property left behind at the Nova music festival one day after October 7.
■ Australia’s national parliament will cut short its summer break to pass laws tackling hate speech after the Bondi Beach mass shooting, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Monday, as concerns were also expressed over free speech.