The Israeli army issued on Monday new evacuation orders for Palestinian civilians in large areas of northwestern Gaza ahead of an imminent military offensive. The new orders were issued after the Israeli army claimed that rockets were fired by Palestinian fighters from Gaza's northwest towards Israel.

“He is back home in Israel,” Hagari said of Alkadi. He is only the eighth hostage rescued alive from Gaza by the IDF, and the first rescued alive from a tunnel under the strip. Alkadi was among scores of people seized in southern Israel during the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attack.