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Three Israeli police officers were killed on Sunday morning near Hebron in the occupied West Bank by a former member of the Palestinian Authority (PA) Presidential Guard.
According to the Israeli army, the suspect's vehicle followed the car carrying the three officers. After the shooting, the officers lost control of their vehicle, with one officer killed at the scene and two declared dead en route to the hospital.
Sources speaking to Middle East Eye identified the assailant as Muhannad al-Asood, a resident of Idhna in Hebron, who was born in Jordan and a citizen of the country. Asood returned to his native West Bank in 1998 with his family after obtaining family reunification.
Asood was also a former member of the Palestinian Presidential Guard, resigned from his position in 2015 and was reportedly a member of Fatah which controls the PA.
Read more: Three Israeli officers killed by former Palestinian Presidential Guard
The Israeli media outlet Yedioth Ahronoth reports that over 100,000 protesters in Tel Aviv are demanding an immediate ceasefire deal, with multiple intersections in Israel closed.
The Lebanese Ministry of Health confirmed that an Israeli airstrike on Beit Lif in southern Lebanon killed one person and wounded two others. The identities of the victims have not been disclosed.
The families of Israeli captives held in Gaza have accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of failing to bring their relatives home alive amid growing calls for a general strike to force a deal with Hamas.
The Hostages and Missing Families Forum on Sunday blamed Netanyahu's government for blocking the deal that could have secured the release of the captives.
Their statement came after the Israeli military announced it recovered the bodies of six Israeli captives from Gaza overnight.
All six were alive when Hamas and other Palestinian groups captured them on 7 October. According to Israeli media, at least three of them were on prisoner exchange lists that Hamas agreed to in July.
The exact circumstances of their deaths were not immediately clear.
Read more: Families accuse Netanyahu of failing to return Israeli captives alive
An Israeli air strike on the southern Lebanese village of Aita al-Shaab injured four people, Lebanon's National News Agency reports.
Israel targeted several southern towns on Sunday, while Hezbollah carried out attacks on Israeli positions in northern Israel.
Israeli media reported that three people were injured in an anti-tank missile attack from Lebanon, with one in serious condition.
Calls for a general strike on Monday are intensifying as Israelis across the country call for a ceasefire.
A member of parliament from Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party reportedly told Channel 12 that the prime minister expressed concern about a potential mass protest outside today's cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, the Times of Israel reported.
"Netanyahu fears that hundreds of thousands will take to the streets and lay siege outside the cabinet after the deal bluff collapsed," the network quoted the senior Likud minister as saying.
The municipalities of Tel Aviv, Kfar Saba and Givatayim have announced their participation in the nationwide strike in support of the captives held by Hamas.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan discussed Gaza, along with regional and global developments, in a phone call with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman on Sunday, Erdogan's office said in a post on X.
"Stating that Israeli attacks and human rights violations must be stopped and a lasting ceasefire must be established, President Erdogan underscored the importance of joint action by Islamic countries with regard to this issue," the statement read.
Reporting by Reuters
Histadrut labour federation chief Arnon Bar-David has announced a general strike set for Monday to protest the Israeli government's failure to secure the release of captives held in Gaza.
"A deal is more important than anything else," he said.
Bar-David added that after meeting with many people in Israel's security establishment, he believes that a deal with Hamas has not been reached "because of political considerations".
"We are getting body bags instead of a deal," he said. "I have come to the conclusion that only our intervention might move those who need to be moved."
"As of tomorrow at 6am, the entire labour market will strike."
Hamas issued a statement holding Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the US administration responsible for the failure to reach a ceasefire and captive exchange deal in Gaza.
The group also blamed Netanyahu for the deaths of Israeli captives, saying they "were killed by his army's bullets".
"The attempts to mislead public opinion led by the criminal Netanyahu through his continued policy of deception and lies, to evade responsibility for [the impasse] that the negotiations have reached, will not absolve him from bearing full responsibility for the continued fascist aggression on the Gaza Strip and his imposition of more conditions that obstruct the efforts of the mediators to reach a ceasefire," the statement read.
Izzat al-Risheq, a member of Hamas' political bureau, said the six captives found dead by the Israeli army "were only killed by Zionist bombing".
The mayor of Tel Aviv, Ron Huldai, announced his city would join the nationwide strike in support of Israeli captives held in Gaza.
"Tomorrow, beginning in the morning until midday, there will be no reception of the public [at our offices] and we will allow all employees to go out and support the families’ struggle," he said on X.
Israel carried out multiple attacks across the Gaza Strip on Sunday despite ongoing polio vaccination campaigns.
Al Jazeera reports that a drone strike in eastern Rafah's Abu Halawa area killed at least two people, while artillery shelling in central Gaza's Bureij refugee camp killed at least one.
Another drone strike near an amusement park in Gaza City killed two people.
Israel has only committed to brief, localised pauses in fighting within designated vaccination areas, forcing people from across the besieged enclave to risk their lives to vaccinate their children.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for the release of all Israeli captives and an end to the war on Gaza after the Israeli army recovered the bodies of six dead captives.
"I will never forget my meeting last October with the parents of Hersh Goldberg-Polin and other hostage families," Guterres said on X. "Today’s tragic news is a devastating reminder of the need for the unconditional release of all hostages and an end to the nightmare of war in Gaza."
The body of Goldberg-Polin, an Israeli-American whose parents recently spoke at the Democratic National Convention (DNC), was among those recovered by the army.
I will never forget my meeting last October with the parents of Hersh Goldberg-Polin and other hostage families. Today's tragic news is a devastating reminder of the need for the unconditional release of all hostages and an end to the nightmare of war in Gaza.
— António Guterres (@antonioguterres) September 1, 2024
Over 200 medical teams are dispatched in 28 UN-run health facilities to vaccinate children against polio in the Gaza Strip, the UN's agency for Palestinian refugees, Unrwa, says.
The campaign aims to vaccinate some 600,000 children over the course of three days.
Children in #Gaza have started receiving polio vaccines this morning. This is today in Nuseirat.
— UNRWA (@UNRWA) September 1, 2024
The vaccination campaign has begun in the Gaza middle area, where over 200 of our teams are administrating vaccines in 28 @UNRWA health facilities and going tent to tent#UNRWAworks pic.twitter.com/xkZtVxDOCJ
Gaza's health ministry said that 40,738 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks on the enclave since 7 October, 47 of them in the past 24 hours.
Additionally, 94,154 were wounded since the start of the war.
Al Jazeera's correspondent in Hebron, in the occupied West Bank, reported that Israeli soldiers told the team to stop reporting in the area and confiscated their press cards and IDs.
عاجل | مراسل #الجزيرة: قوات الاحتلال طالبتنا بالتوقف عن الكلام أثناء تغطيتنا في الخليل وسحبت بطاقاتنا الشخصية والصحفية
— الجزيرة - عاجل (@AJABreaking) September 1, 2024
