IDF clears for publication that hostages Haim Perry, Yoram Metzger, Amiram Cooper, and Nadav Popplewell are no longer alive.

"We are stagnating and not achieving victory", IDF generals criticized Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi during a General Staff forum meeting.

Taliq Gavieli, mother of Ran Gavieli, who was murdered and whose body was taken to Gaza, told the Constitution Committee: "We must win the war and bring everyone home."

Iranian media reports that an Iranian military official was killed in an alleged Israeli attack on a copper factory in the Aleppo region.

Undercover Border Police agents in Judea and Samaria and IDF forces surprised a senior wanted man in a wedding hall in Nablus, killed him after a chase, and wounded several other armed terrorists.

The Tikva Forum of Hostages' Families reacts to the news that Chaim Peri, Yoram Metzger, Amiram Cooper and Nadav Popplewell were murdered by Hamas terrorists.

<p>Police forces from the northern district have been operating in the last few hours at several locations in which fires broke out in different areas of the Galilee.</p><p>A combined forward command center of the security and rescue forces is operating at the scene and, in accordance with a situation assessment carried out between the bodies operating in the area, it was decided to evacuate several homes of residents who remained in the city of Kiryat Shmona.</p><p>The police forces are now engaged in evacuating the houses, directing traffic and carrying out searches in the various areas while the fire brigades, with the assistance of various parties, are assisting in the extinguishing operations.</p>

A Molotov cocktail was thrown at the lobby of the Israeli embassy building in Romania. No one was injured in the incident. The suspect was arrested and taken for interrogation.