Hamas' security forces in the Gaza Strip In Sunday arrested two locals who fired four rockets towards Israeli territory In Thursday, thereby violating the ceasefire and leading to a retaliatory attack by Israel, Palestinian Arab sources in Gaza said, according to Haaretz.According to the reports, the two Palestinian Arabs who were arrested are not directly affiliated with Hamas, and their action effectively served Israeli interests by providing it cause to attack Hamas' military infrastructure in the Gaza Strip.

Palestinian Arabs reported that IDF soldiers entered the Balata refugee camp, east of Shechem (Nablus), and raided a home there.It was also reported that gunshots were heard at the scene.

According to a report in Israel Hayom, officials within the Labor party have begun taking steps to remove party leader Merav Michaeli from her position, following the party's extremely poor showing in last week's elections.They plan to arrange for the party's committee to meet in the near future, in order to begin the process of changing leader. The committee itself does not have the authority to remove Michaeli, but it can order the party to hold snap elections for leadership roles within the party, and if such elections do occur, the estimate is that Michaeli will not survive as leader.

Officials considered close to Otzma Yehudit head MK Itamar Ben-Gvir, who appears poised to take the position of Public Security Minister, and others close to Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai, have told Israel Hayom that the two men have ironed out their differences and that they now get along well and will have no problem in working together with good cooperation. "Ben-Gvir is a bulldozer [i.e. he knows how to get things done], and Shabtai wants to strengthen the police force with his help," they said.According to the report, in the past half year Ben-Gvir and Shabtai have straightened out various issues between them, with Ben-Gvir's wife, Ayala, having been instrumental in bringing this about. Ayala Ben-Gvir is a member of an organization that promotes the rights of Jews to ascend to the Temple Mount, and as such she was already in close contact with senior officials in the Jerusalem police department.

Following reports alleging high-level contacts between Police Chief Kobi Shabtai and Otzma Yehudit leader Itamar Ben-Gvir, police authorities have issued a clarification denying that any such meetings have taken place and denying that any are planned for the future."The Police Commissioner and other senior officers have not requested to meet with, and have not met with, any publicly elected officials," their statement reads. "Such meetings would be inappropriate, and it would be advisable for reports of such a nature to be verified with a police spokesperson before being published."

Attorney Eitan Peleg, who represented Avishai Raviv, the so-called agent provocateur who is alleged to have encouraged Yigal Amir to assassinate former PM Yitzhak Rabin, has decried recent comments made by Religious Zionism head MK Bezalel Smotrich regarding the failures of the Israeli security system in the affair."This is the kind of person who's going to sit in government?" Peleg said. "There's a difference between someone being elected to the Knesset and someone being appointed a minister. [Although people voted for Itamar Ben-Gvir as a Knesset member], there is no public support for Ben-Gvir being appointed Minister of Public Security. And if there is public support for such a thing, then Netanyahu should not be allowed to do it regardless."

Senior Labor officials working to oust Minister Merav Michaeli as party chair, reportedly with strong support from within Labor.

The Jerusalem Municipality has informed of disruptions to traffic in the north of the city, due to inadvertent damage caused to the fiber optic cables that control the traffic lights in that area.The problem is being dealt with and meanwhile, traffic jams are expected while inspectors direct traffic in the affected areas.