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The Times of Israel is liveblogging Friday’s events as they happen.
The BBC says it has reached a settlement with an Israeli family who survived Hamas’s October 7 attack on southern Israel after a news crew filmed inside their destroyed home.
The crew, which included senior correspondent Jeremy Bowen, entered the Horenstein family’s home in the days after the attacks in 2023.
“While we do not generally comment on specific legal issues we are pleased to have reached an agreement in this case,” a BBC spokesperson says.
Tzeela and Simon Horenstein and their two young children survived the attack when a door the Hamas terrorists tried to blast open twisted and jammed.
But at the time the news crew filmed in their wrecked home many of the family’s friends and relatives did not know if they were alive.
Tzeela Horenstein tells the UK Jewish News that not only had the terrorists tried to break into their home and murder them “but then the BBC crew entered again, this time with a camera as a weapon, without permission or consent.”
This second “intrusion” had left the family feeling as if “everything that was still under our control had been taken from us,” she adds.
The BBC has reportedly agreed to pay the family £28,000 ($37,000), according to the Jewish News.
A Palestinian man was injured during a settler raid in the northern West Bank village of Khirbet Ibziq, Palestinian media reports.
The Israeli settler attack was one of several reported across the West Bank on Friday evening.
Settlers reportedly carried out a “patrol” in the southern West Bank village of Burin, where they roamed among residential homes.
Earlier Friday, settlers raided the southern West Bank village of Khallet a-Louza, Haaretz reports.
Clashes broke out when locals tried to push back the settlers. The IDF arrived at the scene shortly thereafter but directed their riot dispersal measures only at the Palestinians. Fifteen were reportedly evacuated for medical treatment after suffering from tear gas inhalation.
State-affiliated media and rights groups in Iran report that at least 10 people have been killed in the countrywide protests against the regime since Wednesday, including one man who authorities said was a member of the Basij paramilitary force affiliated with the elite Revolutionary Guards.
State television also reports the arrest of an unspecified number of people in another western city, Kermanshah, accused of manufacturing petrol bombs and homemade pistols.
Iranian media says two heavily armed individuals were arrested in central and western Iran before they could carry out attacks.
The IDF says that its forces shot dead a “terrorist” who crossed the Yellow Line ceasefire demarcation in southern Gaza earlier today.
The statement doesn’t say whether the suspect was........