Market source: a senior Yemeni source said Saudi officers, their forces and mercenaries will not be spared from missile and drone strikes by the Yemeni military.

Prime Minister Netanyahu has rejected a 15-point Gaza peace plan, Channel 12 reported. Nikolay Mladenov, the Peace Committee’s senior Gaza representative, said the plan — signed between the Peace Committee and Hamas — ties any Israeli withdrawal to phased, district-by-district demilitarization: Israeli forces would pull back only after weapons, tunnels and related infrastructure in each area are removed and Hamas transfers governance responsibilities. Mladenov said Hamas has agreed to immediately cease all military activity and warned the process would stop immediately if Hamas fails to fulfill its commitments. The Peace Committee urged Israel to give the process a chance and said consultations are ongoing.

Chang'an University said a new mineral discovered and named jointly with the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and other institutes — the Wushe River germanium mineral — received approval from the International Mineralogical Association's Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification in August. It is the first independently occurring germanate mineral discovered in China. Germanium is a strategic metal used in semiconductors, fiber‑optic communications, infrared optics and solar PV; it has low crustal abundance, rarely forms independent ore bodies, and has typically been recovered as an associated element in lead‑zinc ores and coal.