US and British security chiefs call for ceasefire in rare joint statement

The protests came shortly after the release of a new opinion poll showing that a majority of Israelis want to prioritize a hostage deal over keeping Israeli troops in Gaza and Egypt, something Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly insisted on.

Sixty-one percent of respondents said they did not believe the government was doing everything in its power to bring the hostages home, according to a survey conducted by Israeli news channel Channel 12 News.

Earlier on Saturday, the Israeli army reported that 30 rockets fired from Lebanon had hit the north near Galilee and that its troops had intercepted at least two more; however, there were no injuries.

Hezbollah, an Iranian proxy that allied with Hamas shortly after the October 7 terrorist attacks on Israel, reportedly confirmed the launch of the rockets.

In response, the Israeli army said it attacked a Hezbollah rocket launch pad in southern Lebanon.

As the Times of Israel reported, more rockets were fired from Lebanon into Israel in August than in any other month since the war began, according to data from the Shin Bet intelligence agency.

MI6's Moore also said he believed Iran was still planning retaliation against Israel for the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on July 30.

Palestinian authorities said on Saturday that at least eight people were killed and 15 injured in an Israeli attack on a school building. According to Israeli forces, the attack targeted a Hamas command center within the building complex.

Israeli forces reportedly announced that they would change their fighting tactics in the Gaza Strip tunnels to prevent the killing of more hostages held there by Hamas.

An initial investigation revealed that IDF soldiers were spotted outside Hamas tunnels on September 1, which likely prompted Hamas to shoot Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Eden Yerushalmi, Carmel Gat, Almog Sarusi, Alexander Lobanov and Ori Danino.

Rescued Muslim Israeli hostage Qaid Farhan Alkadi told the Jerusalem Post that Hamas shot and attacked him because he did not reveal the whereabouts of Jewish people during the storming of his kibbutz on October 7.

“I said to myself, if I am treated like this as a Muslim, what about the Jews?” says Alkadi, who was rescued in late August. “How are they treated?”

With post wires