The IDF has been operating in the West Bank city of Tulkarm for over 40 hours, according to reports from Israeli media on Saturday.
Nine soldiers have reportedly sustained lightly to moderate wounds in clashes with terrorists over the course of the operation. All the soldiers have since been evacuated from the area to receive medical treatment at a hospital.
The operation took place in Tulkarm's Noor al-Shams neighborhood.
Go to the full article >>Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said he addressed the "grave situation" in Gaza and how to step up humanitarian aid to the Strip with Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukry during a meeting on Saturday in Istanbul.
"We have discussed what more we can do to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza, and what can be done in the long run for a two-state solution," Fidan told a joint news conference with Shoukry.
Go to the full article >>At a public hearing at the European Parliament on April 9, Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine, accused Israel of destroying Gaza and committing genocide in the enclave.
Albanese was one of a series of invited speakers at the hearing held by members of the European Parliament. She was asked to give her view on the war in Gaza.
She accuses Israel of committing genocide in Gaza and enacting apartheid on the Palestinians.
She called "Israel's genocide in Gaza" extremely conspicuous and ostentatious and slammed the world for failing other people after Rwanda, Srebrenica, and Myanmar.
Go to the full article >>Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry on Saturday urged both Iran and Israel to exercise restraint amid high tensions in the Middle East.
Separately, Shoukry said Egypt would host a Turkish delegation to prepare for a visit by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to Turkey in the near future.
Go to the full article >>Sirens sound in Even Menachem.
Hostile Aircraft Intrusion in northern Israeli towns of Tel Hai, Kiryat Shmona, Misgav Am, Margaliot, Ma'ayan Baruch, Manara, Metulla, Kfar Yuval, Kfar Giladi, and Beit Hillel.
Hostile aircraft intrusion in Northern Israel, sirens sound in Snir, Shear Yeshuv, Kibutz Dan, Ghajar, HaGoshrim, and Dafna.
Hostile aircraft intrusion in Northern Israel, sirens sound in Tel Hai, Kiryat Shmona, Manara, Kfar Giladi, Kfar Yuval, Margaliot, Misgav Am, Ma'ayan Baruch, Beit Hillel, and Metulla.
Sirens sound in Sassa in northern Israel.