Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel has “activated” some local clans of Palestinians in Gaza in the fight against Hamas.

The revelation ignited a controversy in Israel, with the opposition leader warning that the “weapons going into Gaza will eventually be pointed at Israeli soldiers and civilians.”

Prime minister’s comments come after opposition leader claims country is sending weapons to ‘criminals and felons’

Israeli Americans Judi Weinstein Haggai, 70, and her husband Gadi, 72, were killed during the 7 October 2023 attacks.

American hostages taken in Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack that ignited the war in the Gaza Strip. Israeli strikes overnight and into Thursday meanwhile killed at least 13 people, including three local journalists who were in the courtyard of a hospital,

Israeli forces recovered overnight the bodies of an Israeli American couple who were killed on Oct. 7, 2023, and since held by Hamas, Israeli officials said Thursday. The bodies of Judi Weinstein Haggai and Gadi Haggai were recovered from Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip,