Monday 25 / November / 2024
The Israeli military (IDF) said around 250 projectiles had been fired by Hezbollah militants from Lebanon into northern and central Israel on Sunday, with some rockets reaching Tel Aviv.
Rescue workers say at least seven people had been injured by shrapnel.
The Israeli military said many of the rockets and missiles were intercepted, but others caused damage to houses in central Israel.
UAE arrests 3 over rabbi death
Authorities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) said they have arrested three people suspected of murdering an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi, the Emirati Interior Ministry said on Sunday.
Tzvi Kogan's body was found by security services in the Gulf Arab state, the Israeli prime minister's office and the foreign ministry said earlier Sunday.
Neither Emirati nor Israeli officials provided any details about the circumstances of Kogan's murder.
Israel has condemned the murder of the rabbi as an antisemitic "terrorist attack."
"The Ministry of Interior announced that the UAE authorities have arrested in record time the three perpetrators involved in the murder" an Emirati statement carried by the official WAM news agency said.
Kogan was described by the UAE's Interior Ministry as "a Moldovan national according to his identification documents at the time of entry into the UAE, where he lived as a resident."
The 28-year-old dual Israeli-Moldovan national was a representative of the Chabad Hasidic movement, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish group known for its outreach efforts worldwide.
UN says 'extremely critical' to avoid Syria being dragged into war
The UN special envoy for Syria said on Sunday it was "extremely critical" to avoid the country being pulled into a regional war.
Since Syria's civil war erupted in 2011, Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes in the country, mainly targeting the military and Iran-backed groups.
Those strikes have intensified since its conflict with Iran-backed Hezbollah in neighboring Lebanon escalated in late September.
"We need now to make sure that we have immediately a ceasefire in Gaza, that we have a ceasefire in Lebanon, and that we avoid Syria being dragged even further into the conflict," said Geir Pedersen ahead of a meeting with the Syrian foreign minister in Damascus.
"We agree that it is extremely critical that we de-escalate so that Syria is not further dragged into this," he added.
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