Eight Syrian Soldiers Injured in Alleged Israeli Strike; Iraqi Militia Says It Fired Missiles at Tel Aviv

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Quebec Premier Francois Legault said on Thursday the encampment at Montreal's McGill University should be dismantled as more students erected pro-Palestinian camps across some of Canada's largest universities, demanding they divest from groups with ties to Israel.

The Canadian protests come as police have been arresting hundreds on U.S. campuses and the death toll in Gaza has been mounting.

While McGill had requested police intervention, law enforcement had not stepped in Thursday to clear the encampment and said in a statement Thursday evening it was monitoring the situation.

Students also set up encampments at Canadian schools including the University of Toronto, the University of British Columbia and the University of Ottawa.

"We want the camp to be dismantled. We trust the police, let them do their job," a spokesperson for Legault said.

There was also a pro-Israel counter-protest in Montreal Thursday. The two sides were kept separate.

The Islamic resistance in an Iraqi militant group launched attacks on targets in Israel with cruise missiles from Iraqi territory, a source in the group said.

The source told Reuters the attack was carried out with multiple Arqub-type cruise missiles and targeted Tel Aviv for the first time.

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq has claimed dozens of rockets and drone attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria and on targets in Israel in the more than six months since the Israel-Hamas war erupted on Oct. 7.

Israel has not publicly commented on the attacks claimed by Iraqi armed groups.

Eight soldiers have been injured in an Israeli airstrike on the Damascus outskirts late on Thursday, Syrian state media said.

Kibbutz Be'eri has announced that Dror Or, who was believed to be among the Israelis taken hostage by Hamas, was killed on October 7.

According to the kibbutz statement, Or's body is still being held by Hamas. "We demand the return of Dror's remains, along with all the hostages."

Yonat, Dror's wife, was also murdered at the home on the kibbutz and their two children, 17-year-old Noam and 13-year-old Alma, were kidnapped but released in November.

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An Israeli strike hit a building operated by Syrian security forces on the outskirts of Damascus late on Thursday, a security source in the alliance backing Syria's government told Reuters.

There was no immediate report of a strike by Syrian state media. The Israeli military said it does not comment on reports in the foreign media.

The security cabinet is expected to approve Thursday night the halting of Qatari news outlet Al Jazeera's operations in Israel.

The Knesset approved a law last month that allows the communications minister, with the consent of the prime minister, to order that a foreign channel's broadcasts be stopped in Israel – if the prime minister is convinced that the content being broadcast tangibly harm's the country's security.

Here are the latest updates for day 209 of the Israel-Hamas war:

■ President Biden delivered his most extensive comments to date on the nationwide campus protests roiling America, saying there "should be no place on any campus, no place in America, for antisemitism or hate speech."

■ Turkey halted all exports and imports with Israel Thursday, two Turkish officials familiar with the matter said, according to a Bloomberg News report. Israel's foreign minister said "This is how a dictator behaves" in response.

■ The State Department's spokesperson said that the U.S. was very close to reaching an agreement with Saudi Arabia, and added that there had been no movement over the past days toward a cease-fire deal.

■ The IDF announced a series of new appointments to its top brass following discussions between Chief of Staff Herzl Halevi and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.

■ A senior Palestinian doctor died in an Israeli prison after more than four months of detention, two Palestinian prisoner associations said.

■ The IDF identified four launches fired from Lebanese territory toward northern Israel's Mount Dov area, the IDF spokesperson announced.

Read the full recap for day 209 of the Israel-Hamas war here