UN Torture Monitor Calls on Israel to Review Reports of ‘Organized and Widespread Torture’ Against Palestinians

Here are Friday’s key security updates from Israel, Gaza and the Middle East:

■ The bodies of nine militants who were hiding in an underground compound in eastern Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip were found by the Israeli army, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said.

■ German Chancellor Friedrich Merz will travel to Israel on December 6 and 7 for his first official visit since taking office, a German government spokesperson said on Friday.

■ The government’s bill exempting ultra-Orthodox men from military conscription “enables [draft] evasion and endangers Israel’s future,” Israel’s former National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi said on X on Friday.

■ The UN human rights office said it was appalled by the killing of two Palestinian men by Israeli security forces in the occupied West Bank, saying the incident appeared to amount to summary executions.

■ The Justice Ministry unit in charge of investigating police misconduct has opened an investigation into the Border Police officer who was recorded on Thursday shooting dead two Palestinians in the West Bank city of Jenin.

■ Six IDF reservists were wounded in clashes with local groups in the southern Syrian village of Beit Jinn, the IDF said. The Syrian Foreign Ministry later reported that 20 people were killed in subsequent Israeli strikes.

■ Iran has transferred hundreds of millions of dollars to Hezbollah through businesses and money exchanges in Dubai, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter, including an American official.

■ The IDF struck Hezbollah operation sites across southern Lebanon, it said.