IDF says it carried out airstrike against Hezbollah rocket depot after identifying violations of ceasefire

IDF says south Lebanon drone strike was warning shot at suspects violating ceasefire

 Times of Israel is liveblogging Thursday

IDF says it carried out airstrike against Hezbollah rocket depot after identifying violations of ceasefire

The IDF says it carried an airstrike against a Hezbollah facility in southern Lebanon, after identifying activity there.

The facility had been used to hold medium-range rockets, according to the IDF.

The military says fighter jets struck the site after the Hezbollah activity was identified, removing the threat.

“The IDF is deployed in southern Lebanon, acting and thwarting any violation of the ceasefire agreement,” the military adds.

Report: Some US officials believe Hamas could agree to deal that Israel would back

Some US officials say Hamas could give up on core demands and accept a ceasefire deal that Israel could back, The New York Times reports.

According to the outlet, even before a ceasefire was reached between Hezbollah and Israel this week, both Palestinian and US officials said they thought Hamas was ready to give up on the strategy professed by slain leader Yahya Sinwar, and to move forward toward a deal.

Shortly before his death, Sinwar had told Hamas’s leadership that a long war against Israel is beneficial: “The longer it lasts, the closer we get to liberation,” senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan recounts Sinwar saying.

Citing two people familiar with the terror group’s thinking, the report says leaders of the terror group are discussing allowing Israel to maintain a temporary presence on the Philadelpi Corridor, the border area between Egypt and Gaza that Israel’s leadership has pledged not to withdraw from.

Hamas leaders are split over the role it should have after the war and the compromises it should make to achieve a ceasefire, according to the Times.

Decision-making is hampered by the fact that Hamas has not chosen a leader to replace Sinwar.

Senior Iranian IRGC adviser said killed in Syria

Iranian media reports a senior military adviser from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was killed in Syria.

According to the reports, Brig. Gen. Kioumars Pourhashemi was killed in western Aleppo.

IDF footage shows strike against Hamas operative preparing to fire rockets from north Gaza’s Jabalia

Gaza authorities say at least 21 Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes