Security source to Sky News: Response to Hezbollah will be strong - but we don't intend to go to war

First responders evacuate two people suffering burns, smoke inhalation, from burning apartment, declare deaths at the scene.

<p><i>Israel National News</i> is stopping its round-the-clock news updates at this time in honor of the start of the Sabbath in North America, where they are being written now.</p><p>Updates will resume Saturday night from Israel, following the conclusion of the Sabbath at 20:19 Jerusalem time.</p><p>Shabbat Shalom!</p>

Commanding Officer of IDF's 98th Division speaks from inside the tunnel from which the hostages were rescued, beneath the area previously designated as the humanitarian area. 'We will do all it takes to bring down Hamas.'

<p>Following the attack in the northern town of Majdal Shams, Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant is currently conducting a situation assessment together with the IDF Chief of the General Staff and senior defense officials.</p>

<p>The Prime Minister's Office on Saturday night stated: "The reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seemingly decided to bring forward his return to the country as a result of criticism are completely mendacious."</p><p>"The Prime Minister decided to bring forward his return immediately upon being informed of the terrible disaster in Majdal Shams and even updated the Defense Minister to this effect before the false criticism was voiced in the media.</p><p>"Prime Minister Netanyahu will convene the Security Cabinet immediately upon his return to Israel."</p>

'The harder we strike them, the faster this war will end,' singer Idan Amedi writes in social media post.

Israel has delivered an updated Israeli ceasefire-prisoner swap proposal to American officials before its transfer to mediators.