News on the war between Israel and Hamas: Israeli military says it killed a Hamas militant in a widely viewed video on October 7

The Israeli military says it has killed a Hamas militant who was seen in a widely viewed video on October 7 drinking from a Coke bottle in front of two children who were injured in a grenade attack that had shortly before killed their father.

The military identified the militant on Tuesday as Ahmed Fozi Wadia, commander of a Hamas commando battalion and member of a paragliding unit. It said Wadia flew a paraglider to the Netiv HaAsara community before launching the attack on civilians there.

In a video of the attack on the Taasa family home, shown by Israeli authorities to journalists, diplomats and lawmakers around the world, Gil Taasa is seen running into a shelter with his two sons as a grenade is thrown inside. Taasa jumps on the grenade and is killed, his sons are injured. The militant, now identified by the military as Wadia, then stands over the injured boys and drinks Coke from their refrigerator.

The military said planes attacked a complex in Gaza City where Hamas fighters were operating on Saturday, killing eight fighters, including Wadia.

The military said the site hit was near Al-Ahli Hospital, but the hospital itself was not hit. Gaza's Health Ministry reported an attack on the hospital compound on Saturday and said three people were killed.

In their attack on October 7, Hamas-led militants killed 1,200 people and took 250 hostage. The attack sparked the war in Gaza, which is now in its eleventh month and has claimed more than 40,000 lives, according to Gaza health officials.

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TEL AVIV, Israel – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday condemned the British government's decision to suspend certain arms exports to Israel, saying they could violate international law.

In a thread on his English-language account on the social platform X, Netanyahu called the move “shameful” and said it would “not change Israel's determination to defeat Hamas.”

“With or without British weapons, Israel will win this war,” he wrote.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's government announced the suspension on Monday. The move has limited military impact but is intended to increase pressure from Israel's frustrated allies to end the war in Gaza.

Britain is one of a number of long-standing allies of Israel whose governments are under increasing pressure to halt arms exports in the wake of the conflict in Gaza, which has lasted for almost 11 months. According to the Health Ministry of the Hamas-controlled territory, more than 40,000 Palestinians have already been killed. The ministry does not distinguish between militants and civilians in its casualty calculations.

British companies sell relatively few weapons and components to Israel compared to major suppliers such as the US and Germany. But Britain is one of Israel's closest allies, so the decision has some symbolic significance.

Israel says it is strictly adhering to international law in its fight against Hamas. The October 7 attack that sparked the war killed 1,200 people and left 250 people hostage.

GENEVA — An “extremely complex” polio vaccination campaign in Gaza has already reached more than a quarter of all children across the Gaza Strip in its first two days of implementation, according to the World Health Organization.

Dr Rik Peeperkorn, WHO representative in the occupied Palestinian territories, said more than 161,000 of the 640,000 children scheduled to be vaccinated under a “territory-specific” humanitarian pause had been vaccinated – the first phase of which is currently underway in central Gaza.

“We have exceeded the estimated target,” he told reporters at a UN briefing in Geneva via video conference from Gaza. “So far everything is going well… This is only the third day. We have at least ten more days to go.”

Peeperkorn said more than 500 teams were deployed across the country as part of the campaign to combat an outbreak of vaccine-induced polio in Gaza. The WHO said Israel had agreed to limited pauses in fighting to facilitate the campaign.

BERLIN — German airline Lufthansa will resume flights to Tel Aviv, Israel, later this week. The company announced Tuesday that it would offer flights to Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport starting Thursday.

Flights to the Lebanese capital Beirut will remain suspended until September 30 for all airlines in the Lufthansa Group, which also includes Swiss, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines and Eurowings.

On August 27, flights to Amman, Jordan and Erbil, Iraq resumed.

Due to increasing tensions in the region, Lufthansa canceled its connections at the beginning of last month.