Israel at war: What happened on day 384?

Nearly a month after a deadly terror attack in Jaffa that claimed the lives of seven people, Shin Bet and Yamam forces arrested a terror suspect in Jaffa on Wednesday.

David Barnea, the head of Israel's Mossad, will travel to Doha, Qatar early next week in an attempt to restart negotiations for a hostage release and ceasefire deal with several key figures, Israeli media reported.

The European Union will give the Lebanese army 20 million euros this year and 40 million euros next year, the EU's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell told reporters on Thursday during a conference held in Paris aimed to raise humanitarian aid for Lebanon.

A joint proposal made by France and the United States remains the basis for any potential ceasefire in Lebanon, said French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot, adding that the full implementation of UN resolution 1701 was still the goal of diplomatic efforts.

The resolution calls for southern Lebanon to be free of any troops or weapons other than those of the Lebanese state.

France's top diplomat also said Lebanon must end a two-year vacuum and elect a new president, calling the lack of an elected head of state 'inconceivable.'

"To preserve its unity in the face of challenges, to be represented at the negotiating table in the future, Lebanon must have a head of state," Barrot told a news conference in Paris.

An Israeli delegation is expected to arrive in Doha in the coming days to resume negotiations regarding a possible hostage deal. Additionally, Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani noted that he met with representatives of the Hamas terrorist organization, stating that their position has not changed.

Blinken added that during his conversation with the Qatari prime minister, they discussed how to capitalize on the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar to push negotiations forward. "The time has come for this painful period in the region to come to an end," Al Thani said, as reported by Ynet. He also noted that he and Blinken discussed a "sustainable solution and the day after the war."

Hamas announced that it is conducting talks to stop the operation in the northern Gaza Strip, which it calls the "Generals' Plan," according to an update on Thursday.

This is a developing story. 

The IDF announced on Thursday that jets struck a school in Nuseirat that was being used as a command and control center by Hamas.

The center was embedded inside the Shahada al-Nuseirat school, which had been transformed into a Hamas base.

The IDF said it took every precaution to prevent civilian casualties and that Hamas was "brutally" exploiting civilian infrastructure.

An 84-year-old man was lightly wounded by shrapnel in Nahariya following the activation of sirens in the area, Israeli media reported. 

A Magen-David Adom (MDA) team provided the man with medical treatment and others suffering from anxiety at the scene of the fall, and he was evacuated to the Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya, according to reports by Israeli media.  
 

David Barnea, the head of Israel's Mossad, will travel to Doha, Qatar early next week in an attempt to restart negotiations for a hostage release and ceasefire deal with several key figures, Israeli media reported.

Barnea will meet with CIA head Bill Burns, Prime Minister of Qatar, Mohammed bin Abdel-Rahman Al-Thani, and the head of Egyptian intelligence, Hassan Rashad.

After exposing the involvement of six Al Jazeera journalists in terrorism and connections to terrorist groups, the IDF revealed additional documents indicating close cooperation between Hamas and the Qatari state-owned network, the military said on Thursday. 

Cooperation ranged from prohibiting the channel from criticizing the terrorist organization to concealing incidents of failed launches and even establishing a secure communication line between Hamas and Al Jazeera, the IDF stated. 

In a recovered 2022 document, Hamas described how it provided Al Jazeera with clear instructions on covering a failed Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) rocket launch in Jabalya, which resulted in the deaths of several civilians. 

Instructions given to Al Jazeera by terror groups

The instructions included avoiding the use of the word "massacre" to describe the event, reducing the display of images from the incident, and ensuring that panel members did not criticize Hamas, the IDF reported. 

Another document from 2022 reveals the instructions Hamas gave to journalist Tamer Almisshall regarding the coverage of PIJ during Operation "Breaking Dawn" on his program "More Hidden than Revealed." The instructions were to support the "resistance" in Gaza and to prevent any criticism of the PIJ's rocket capabilities, in light of the high number of failed launches. 

An uncovered document reveals further connections between Hamas, PIJ, to Al Jazeera, the IDF reveals, October 24, 2024. (credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON'S UNIT)

A 2023 document shows that Hamas decided to establish an "Al Jazeera Phone"—a secure line that would allow the organization to communicate with the channel in a classified manner and during emergencies.

The documents reveal how Hamas directs Al Jazeera's media coverage to serve its own interests, preventing the public in Gaza and around the world from discovering the truth about its crimes against Gazan civilians.