The Times of Israel is liveblogging Thursday’s events as they unfold.

Police launch another murder investigation after a woman is shot to death in the northern city of Tamra, the sixth Arab Israeli homicide victim in the past day.

A police statement says the woman, in her 50s, was critically wounded and later pronounced dead after being taken to a local hospital.

Police add that they are looking into a motive for the shooting, which they describe as crime-related.

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir has submitted a request to the Supreme Court to bar High Court Justice Khaled Kabub from sitting on the panel of judges who will hear petitions calling for the minister’s dismissal.

Kabub is the first and only Muslim justice to sit on Israel’s High Court.

In his request to the court, Ben Gvir says that in 2021 he filed a complaint with the Israel Bar Association over Kabub’s son, Waleed Kabub, accusing him of “supporting the enemy” over social media posts during that year’s conflict with Hamas in Gaza. Therefore, he does not believe the justice can be impartial in the case, and says he should recuse himself, the Ynet news site reports.

The High Court last week announced that it was expanding the panel set to hear the Ben Gvir petitions to nine justices due to “the nature and the gravity” of the case. While there are supposed to be 15 Supreme Court justices, there are currently only 11 since Justice Minister Yariv Levin has refused to convene the Judicial Selection Committee to fill the vacancies.

A hearing on the petitions demanding that Ben Gvir be fired over allegations that he abuses his powers is set for March 24.

Lebanon’s health ministry reports one dead in an Israeli airstrike targeting a car in the southern Lebanese town of at-Tiri.

The IDF said it had targeted a Hezbollah operative in the area.

The IDF says it carried out an airstrike targeting a Hezbollah operative in the southern Lebanese town of at-Tiri.

No further details are immediately given by the military.

A 59-year-old Gazan medic has died in the Ketziot Prion in southern Israel, the Palestinian Authority’s Commission of Detainees’ Affairs says. He is identified as Hatem Rayyan.

It’s unclear from the PA statement when he died. The Israel Prison Service does not immediately comment on the statement.

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— إعلام الأسرى (@AsraMediia) February 12, 2026

The PA commission says Rayyan was detained along with his injured son, Moaz, from the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza on December 27, 2024. The son remains in prison, according to the commission.

Relatives who earlier today announced Rayyan’s death on social media said another one of his sons, Bashir, was one of the Hamas operatives killed by the IDF when they tried to infiltrate Kibbutz Nir Am via an underground tunnel from Gaza on July 21, 2014, during that year’s Gaza war. Four IDF soldiers were killed in the attempted infiltration.

After US President Donald Trump said President Isaac Herzog should be “ashamed of himself” for not pardoning Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Herzog’s office says it has not made any decision yet on the matter.

“To clarify, the prime minister’s........

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