Live Updates: No hostage release before Friday - Israel

05:27 GMT - US will not allow expulsion of Palestinians - Biden

US President Joe Biden has told Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el Sisi in a phone call that the US would not permit the forced relocation of Palestinians from besieged Gaza or the occupied West Bank, or the besiegement of Gaza, or the redrawing of Gaza's borders, the White House said in a statement.

"The President affirmed his commitment to the establishment of a Palestinian state and recognised Egypt's essential role in setting the conditions for that outcome," the White House said.

05:00 GMT - US intercepts multiple attack drones launched from Yemen: Pentagon

The United States has intercepted multiple attack drones launched from Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen, the Central Command said. "The drones were shot down while the U.S. warship was on patrol in the Red Sea. The ship and crew sustained no damage or injury," CENTCOM said on X, previously Twitter.

04:30 GMT - Israel says no release of captives before Friday

Israel's national security adviser has said that no captives held by Hamas resistance group in besieged Gaza would be released before Friday despite the two sides agreeing on a truce. One senior official told the AFP news agency that fighting in Gaza will continue until Friday.

"The contacts on the release of our hostages are advancing and continuing constantly," National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi said in a statement. "The start of the release will take place according to the original agreement between the sides, and not before Friday."

There will be no halt to war in Gaza "before Friday", an Israeli official told the AFP early on Thursday. There will be "no pause" in the fighting, the source said, delaying a widely anticipated lull which had been expected to start at 10:00 am local time, according to another Israeli source.

04:05 GMT - Israel 'kills' son of senior Hezbollah lawmaker

The son of a senior Hezbollah lawmaker has been killed in an Israeli strike in south Lebanon, a source close to the family told the AFP news agency.

Abbas Raad, son of the head of Hezbollah's parliamentary bloc Mohammed Raad, "was killed with a number of other Hezbollah members" in an Israeli strike on a house in Beit Yahun, the source said, requesting anonymity as they were not authorised to speak to the media.

Lebanon's official National News Agency said that "an air strike launched by the Israeli enemy ... on a house in Beit Yahun killed four people" and wounded others.

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