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"The ICC's credibility is hanging by a thread," warned one former United Nations official in response to the court's delay in deciding whether to issue arrest warrants for Israeli leaders.

U.S. lawmakers have also threatened to sanction ICC officials who seek to hold Israeli leaders accountable for violations of international law, and in June dozens of House Democrats joined their Republican colleagues in passing H.R. 8282, the Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act, which would sanction ICC personnel involved in efforts to bring Israeli leaders to justice.

Haniyeh was assassinated in late July by Israeli operatives in Tehran, Iran. Israel claims to have also killed Al-Masri, although this has not been confirmed.

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.

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.”

TAIPEI, Oct 17 (Reuters) - TSMC, the world's largest contract chipmaker, bet on sustaining its strong growth, after reporting on Thursday a forecast-beating 54% jump in quarterly profit driven by soaring demand for chips used in artificial intelligence (AI).

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (2330.TW), the dominant producer of advanced chips used in AI applications whose customers include Apple (AAPL.O) and Nvidia (NVDA.O), has benefited from a surge towards AI across a spectrum of industries.

TSMC estimated its capital spending in the current quarter would more than double to around $11.5 billion and that the budget was likely to increase further next year, as it expects healthy demand for its products.

It said 2024 full-year revenue will grow close to 30% in U.S. dollar terms, compared to a previous guidance of slightly above the mid-20% range.