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The death toll has risen to 50,399 after at least 42 bodies were received by hospitals across the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, the enclave's Health Ministry said.

Moreover, 183 injured people have also been received by hospitals in a day, Al Jazeera reported.

The update published on Telegram said Israel has killed 1,042 Palestinians and injured 2,542 in the Strip since breaking the ceasefire on March 18.

Israel's war on Gaza has killed a total of 50,399 Palestinians and injured 114,583, it added.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has withdrawn his nomination of former navy chief Eli Sharvit to lead the domestic intelligence agency Shin Bet only a day after making it, a statement from his office said on Tuesday.

Netanyahu thanked Sharvit for accepting the nomination "but informed him that after further thought, he intends to examine other candidates", it said, giving no further reasons for the decision and naming no other candidate.

Israeli media reports said that Sharvit had taken part in the huge street protests that shook Israel in 2023 over Netanyahu's drive to restrict the power of the Supreme Court and overhaul the judiciary.

Israel will not allow the Palestinian Authority to control the occupied West Bank, said Defence Minister Israel Katz.

He made the remarks during a tour of the territory with far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who said Israel was "here to stay", Al Jazeera reported.

“Just as we are crushing Palestinian terror in the terror camps of Jenin, Tulkarem, and Nur Shams, we will prevent any attempt by the PA to take control of Judea and Samaria and harm Jewish settlements,” Katz said in a video statement alongside Smotrich, using a biblical term to refer to the West Bank.

Under the protection of Israeli forces, illegal Israeli settlers carried out an attack in the occupied West Bank, leaving at least four Palestinians injured in the town of al-Auja, near Jericho.

The victims were on a picnic at a spring in al-Auja on the third day of Eid ul Fitr when they were physically assaulted and pepper sprayed by settlers who had a herd of sheep grazing in the area, Al Jazeera reported.

The Palestine Red Crescent Society was cited by Wafa as saying that its crews in Jericho responded to a young man injured in a physical assault by settlers in the al-Auja spring area.

The report said the man was then transferred to the hospital, noting that the army was refusing to hand over the rest of the injured people to the PRCS crews.

An Israeli airstrike killed four people including a Hezbollah official in Beirut's southern suburbs on Tuesday, a Lebanese security source said, further testing a shaky ceasefire between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah.

The Israeli military said the official — Hassan Bdeir — was a member of a Hezbollah unit and Iran's Quds Force, and he had assisted the Palestinian group Hamas in planning a "significant and imminent terror attack against Israeli civilians".

The Lebanese security source said the target was a Hezbollah figure whose responsibilities included the Palestinian file. The Lebanese health ministry said the strike killed four people — including a woman — and wounded seven others.

Following the killing of Mohammed Saleh al-Bardawil, who worked as a broadcaster for Sawt Al-Aqsa Radio, the death toll for journalists killed in Israel’s war on the enclave has reached 209, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office, reported Al Jazeera.

In a statement published on Telegram, the office said it “condemns in the strongest terms the targeting, killing, and assassination of Palestinian journalists” by Israeli forces.

The Israeli military said on Tuesday that it intercepted one projectile that was launched from northern Gaza.

At least three people were killed and seven wounded in an Israeli airstrike on Beirut's southern suburbs early on Tuesday, the Lebanese health ministry said, further testing a shaky four-month ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.

People in Beirut are extremely worried. They say the peace here is really fragile and that any little development could collapse the ceasefire and spark another war, reported Al Jazeera.

People here are tired. They definitely want Israel to stop. They want the ceasefire to hold and they are fed up with the world because remember that Israel’s war on Lebanon claimed thousands of lives, destroyed thousands of buildings, residential areas, towns and cities, particularly in the south of the country.