Israel's sacked defence minister Yoav Gallant is a former general who shaped the war against Hamas in Gaza, but fell out of favour with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the future of the campaign.
A hawk on Lebanon who lost his job on Tuesday -- Election Day in key Israel backer the United States -- Gallant had in recent months clashed with Netanyahu over the future of the war in Gaza.
Thousands of Israelis protested against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's dismissal of his defence minister, demanding the government do everything in its power to bring home hostages held in Gaza.
The demonstration erupted soon after Netanyahu's office announced the sacking of Yoav Gallant on Tuesday following public differences over the war with Hamas.
Palestinians in war-ravaged Gaza told AFP on Tuesday that whoever emerges victorious in the US presidential election must end the conflict in the territory, which has taken an appalling human toll.
"We are hanging by a thread, and like every other people in the world, we are looking for someone who can stop the war," said Ayman al-Omreiti, 45, from Gaza City's Al-Daraj neighbourhood.
"Our hope is that the American people will choose someone who can end the suffering of the Palestinian people."
Municipal workers demolished seven homes in occupied east Jerusalem's Silwan neighbourhood on Tuesday, Palestinian residents and the municipality said, after an Israeli court called their construction illegal.
"This morning the Jerusalem Municipality, with a security escort from the Israel police, began its enforcement against illegal buildings in the Al-Bustan neighbourhood in Silwan," Jerusalem's Israeli-controlled city hall said in a statement.
Lebanon said Israel struck locations across the country on Tuesday, killing one person, as the Israeli military said it struck a Hezbollah weapons depot in a Syrian town near the Lebanese border.
The strikes came more than a month into the Hezbollah-Israel war which has left at least 1,964 dead in Lebanon since September 23, according to an AFP tally of health ministry figures.
Lebanon's health ministry said one person was killed and 20 others were wounded following an Israeli strike on the coastal town of Jiyeh, south of Beirut.
Concern grew Tuesday for an Iranian student arrested after stripping to her underwear in protest at alleged harassment over her dress, with activists worried authorities could confine her in a psychiatric institution.
In videos shared on social media, the woman, a student at Tehran's prestigious Islamic Azad University, was seen protesting outside the campus on Saturday dressed only in her bra and underpants.
Qataris went to the polls on Tuesday in a referendum on ending a brief and limited experiment with legislative elections in the wealthy monarchy.
Voters among the gas-rich peninsula's roughly 380,000 Qatari nationals cast their ballots on constitutional changes that would scrap the legislative council polls.
In 2021, a year before Qatar held the football World Cup under intense international scrutiny, the Gulf state organised its first elections for 30 of 45 seats in the Shura Council, an advisory body with limited powers.
Iran has sentenced three people to death over the 2020 assassination of one of the country's top nuclear scientists, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the judiciary said on Tuesday.
"The judicial processes of these three people were carried out in the Revolutionary Court of Urmia, and they were sentenced to death in the initial stage, and the case is currently in the appeal stage," judiciary spokesman Asghar Jahangir told a Tehran press conference.
Palestinian officials said Israeli forces killed seven Palestinians during separate operations in the West Bank on Tuesday, with the military confirming it had targeted militants.
Two people were killed in the town of Tammun, said Ahmad Assad, governor of the nearby city of Tubas whose jurisdiction includes Tammun.
"There is a martyr from the air strike whose body is torn to pieces," he told AFP.
The Palestinian health ministry in Ramallah confirmed two men had been killed by Israeli forces in Tammun.
Qataris went to the polls on Tuesday in a referendum on ending a brief and limited experiment with legislative elections in the wealthy monarchy.
Voters among the gas-rich peninsula's roughly 380,000 Qatari nationals cast their ballots on constitutional changes that would scrap the legislative council polls.
In 2021, a year before Qatar held the football World Cup under intense international scrutiny, the Gulf state organised its first elections for 30 of 45 seats in the Shura Council, an advisory body with limited powers.
