Morning update

5 October 2026 07:59 BST Good morning Middle East Eye readers, Here are the latest developments: The spokesperson for Yemen’s government-aligned forces said that 1,122 attacks were carried out against Houthi targets, claiming that around 1,747 of the group's fighters were killed. Majid Abdullah Al-Nuzaili indicated that the operations took place in Saada, al-Jawf, Taiz and the country’s coast, and were conducted using warplanes, drones, missiles, rockets, artillery and snipers. The chairman of Israel's Central Elections Committee chairman ordered that prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu remove online videos where military and public resources were used without authorisation, according to Haaretz. He said that the videos are "election propaganda whose intention is to persuade the voter", and ordered Netanyahu to also pay the petitioners 29,000 shekels ($9,500) in legal fees. The Israeli army early on Monday killed a man in southern Syria, as it continues to carry out raids in the country. The army made claims that the individual attempted to enter one of its military posts, when troops opened fire and killed him. Israel has repeatedly violated Syrian territory since the fall of the Assad regime in late 2024, with numerous incursions, detentions and attacks taking place in the country. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Sunday that there would be no military solution to the United States’ war against the Islamic Republic, with talks on ending the war between the two countries apparently at an impasse. There is no military solution, nor any solution based on new sanctions," Araghchi said, adding "only negotiations based on justice and fairness" could end the conflict. The Israeli military said on Sunday that it had killed the director of a Turkish NGO - Saqr Nabil Musa Qais - in a strike, accusing him of being a member of Hamas's armed wing. In a separate statement, the Israeli army also claimed that it had killed a commander of Hamas's armed wing in another strike in the same area.