Overnight Israeli fire hit the Al-Asala residential building in Rimal, west of Gaza City, killing five, including four women. Victims were later identified as an academic and her mother and a Christian mother and daughter. By morning Israeli outlets said the target was Hamas figure Ali al-Amoudi, and by evening Israeli army radio acknowledged the attempt had failed. Additional strikes in Beit Lahia pushed the toll since dawn to eight or nine, with the Health Ministry putting the cumulative toll at 74,228.
West Bank coverage stayed on the olive harvest, with injuries reported in Rantis and Ramallah, 55 trees burned in Abu Dis, and official tallies of 30 killed by settlers since January and more than 2,000 assaults in September.
Outlets followed UAE investigators' account of the FlyDubai co-pilot attacking the captain with an emergency axe in an alleged attempt to crash the aircraft in Israel.