The party of the Social Democrat candidate in Croatia's presidential election has claimed victory on national television. Ivo Josipovic appears to be on course to be declared the winner. Most exit polls in this run-off vote show him taking a commanding lead of around 30 points over his opponent, the mayor of Zagreb, Milan Bandic.

The Israeli armed forces say they have killed a senior field commander in Gaza belonging to the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad. They identified him as Awad Nasir. Palestinian medical workers said he was among three members of the Islamic Jihad killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza. Earlier, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had warned that there would be, what he called, a powerful response to rocket or mortar attacks launched from Gaza against Israel.