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A 59-year-old Palestinian woman has been shot dead by Israeli forces while attending to her family’s olive grove in the village of Faqqua, east of Jenin in the north of the occupied West Bank.

Hanan Abu Salami was shot in the back on Thursday morning as she was picking olives with other members of her family when soldiers stationed on the nearby separation wall opened fire, her son told Middle East Eye.

"We had permission to pick the olives but despite that they shot at us and killed my mother.”

An online news outlet has alleged that numerous US media figures are also former Israeli spies, Anadolu Agency reports.

White House Correspondents’ Association award winner, Barak Ravid, CNN producer Shachar Peled and New York Times producer Anat Schwartz are all alumni of Israel’s Unit 8200 – a covert ops, spying and cyber-warfare unit – and now have prominent media positions, reported MintPress on Thursday.

Al Jazeera cameraman Fadi al-Wahidi, who was hit by an Israeli sniper in the Gaza Strip this month, is in a coma and has not yet been allowed by Israel to leave the enclave for urgent medical treatment.

Israel's military has said on Thursday it is checking the possibility that it has killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in Gaza, while Israeli broadcasters KAN and N12 News cited officials as saying that the Palestinian leader was confirmed killed.

“After the start of [Israeli military] operations in Gaza, the government immediately suspended all new export licenses, and all agreements signed after October 7th were not implemented,” the Italian leader stated during a debate at Italy’s Senate ahead of Thursday’s European Council summit.

Meloni told lawmakers that licenses authorized before Oct. 7 are being “analyzed on a case-by-case basis by the competent authority at the foreign ministry.”

“We have blocked everything,” the Italian premier declared, noting that the policies of her government are “much more restrictive than that applied by our partners—France, Germany and the United Kingdom.”