It seems that someone lauched two missiles at Israel from Lebanon….
Neither rocket actually landed in Israel….
But Israeli answered with bombing a Hezbollah target…
The evacuation warning Friday afternoon followed reports of two projectiles launched from Lebanese territory. One of the projectiles launched toward Israel was intercepted, the other fell in Lebanese territory. Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed armed group and Lebanese political party, denied launching the rockets, according to a statement carried by Lebanon’s state news agency. The statement also said Hezbollah remains committed to the ceasefire agreement….
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- Israel’s parliament passed legislation Thursday giving lawmakers greater political influence over the appointment of the nation’s judges, days after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu started the process of firing the head of Israel’s security service, and passed a hotly-debated budget.
- Iran’s foreign minister said the country was willing to engage in indirect negotiations, after President Donald Trump said he sent a letter to Iran’s supreme leader expressing his desire to negotiate a nuclear deal but reiterating the prospect of a military attack.
- At least 50,208 people have been killed in Gaza since the start of the war, and more than 113,910 have been wounded, according to the latest figures from the Gaza Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants but says the majority of those killed were women and children.
- Israel estimates that about 1,200 people were killed in Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack that triggered its war in Gaza, including more than 300 soldiers. It says 407 soldiers have been killed in its military operation in Gaza.
The past three days have seen rare protests against Hamas break out in multiple locations in the Gaza Strip, with hundreds, if not thousands, of Palestinians taking part.
Demonstrations have occurred in Beit Lahiya and the Jabalia refugee camp in the north, in the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City, and in Khan Younis and Nuseirat in the south and center of the enclave. Specifically, anti-Hamas protests have yet to be documented in central Gaza’s Deir al-Balah, where hundreds of thousands of displaced people from both the north and south have taken refuge, but there, too, there have been rallies opposing the war and showing solidarity with Gazans protesting elsewhere. This is no isolated phenomenon.
The protests have featured direct calls for the ouster of Hamas, along with anti-Israel chants and demands to end the war and the suffering it has caused for Gaza’s civilians. At the beginning of March, Israel stopped allowing aid into Gaza to pressure Hamas into releasing more hostages under an extended first phase of the now-collapsed ceasefire deal. The move has driven up prices and reduced the food supply in Gaza. The resumption of the war almost two weeks ago has included renewed airstrikes and evacuation orders.
The civilian populace is suffering, but Hamas has been unyielding to date, insisting on sticking to the original deal, which was supposed to have proceeded to a second phase in which all remaining living hostages would be released, the IDF would complete its withdrawal, and a permanent ceasefire would take effect….
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