The Times of Israel livestreamed Sunday’s events as they unfolded.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu laments a fatal terror attack the day before and calls on Israelis not to take the law into their own hands in response.
His comments come after settlers rebelled in Huwara following the shooting attack that killed two Israeli brothers.
“The Israeli army and security forces are ultimately after the killer,” Netanyahu said. “We will locate him, catch him and bring him to justice. “
“I ask you, while the blood is boiling and the winds are strong, don’t make the law in your hands,” he added. “I ask you to allow the IDF and security forces to do their job. “
The first Israeli flight to cross Oman airspace takes off from Ben Gurion Airport for El Al.
The flight to Bangkok is expected to last 8 hours instead of the 11 it historically takes around Saudi Arabia and Oman on the way to the Far East.
Oman agreed last week to open its airspace to all carriers after the Saudis made an announcement last year.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the structure of the deal would not be frozen after Israeli officials agreed to suspend such announcements at a summit in Aqaba, Jordan.
“Contrary to tweets, the structure and regulation in Judea and Samaria will continue according to the original schedule, change,” Netanyahu tweeted. “There is and will be no frost. “
A set of participants after the assembly between Israeli, Palestinian, Jordanian, Egyptian and American officials in Jordan this afternoon said that the agreement “includes an Israeli commitment to avoid discussing any new set of agreements for 4 months and to avoid allowing any outposts for six months.
The Israeli at the end of the summit said no announcements of agreements were expected in the coming months.
A classified document provided to the White House and key members of the U. S. Congress. The U. S. Department of Health and Drug Administration indicated that the maximum maximum of the COVID-19 virus was likely leaked from a Chinese lab, the Wall Street Journal reports.
The updated opinion, issued by the U. S. Department of Energy. The U. S. Department of Homeland Intelligence was attached to an existing document produced by the office of Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines.
The department, which is guilty of a network of laboratories in the United States, some of which conduct biological studies, reportedly reached its conclusion on new data, which officials declined to detail.
However, according to those who viewed the report, the ministry indicated it had “little confidence” in his trial.
National security adviser Tzachi Hanegbi, who attended today’s summit in Aqaba, said Israel agrees to any deal freeze or policy change.
“Contrary to news and tweets about the assembly in Jordan, there is no replacement in Israel,” said Hanegbi, a former Likud deputy.
“In the coming months, the State of Israel will legalize nine outposts and approve nine thousand 500 establishments in Judea and Samaria,” says Hanegbi, the biblical term for the West Bank. “There is no frozen or replaced structure of the prestige quo on the Temple Mount and there are no restrictions on IDF activity. “
A set of participants after the assembly among Israeli, Palestinian, Jordanian, Egyptian and American officials in Jordan said the agreement “includes an Israeli commitment to avoid discussion of any new agreement established for 4 months and to avoid the authorization of any outpost for six months. “. “
The Israeli said no announcements of deals were expected in the coming months.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry will make a stopover in Turkey and Syria in the morning, according to his office, in the first such stop in a decade of tense relations with the two countries.
The holiday aims to show “solidarity with the two countries and their brotherly peoples” after the devastating earthquake that struck Syria and Turkey this month, a foreign ministry said.
The magnitude 7. 8 earthquake that struck on Feb. 6 killed more than 46,000 people in both countries.
Opposition leader Yair Lapid mocked the diversity of ministers who spoke out against a government after a summit with Palestinians in Jordan the day before.
“It is up to the State of Israel to send a high-ranking official delegation to a US-backed summit, strike deals, and then have senior cabinet ministers tweet against themselves,” Lapid writes. “It’s not a government, it’s harmful chaos. “
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir tweeted following Israel’s announcement of the deal to freeze the deal in Aqaba: “What happened in Jordan (if it happened) remains in Jordan. “
Negev and Galilee Minister Yitzhak Wasserlauf writes: “If someone holds a summit in Jordan without involving the government, they deserve not to wait for the government to reach its conclusions.
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich promised there would be no freeze on agreements “even for a day. “
Dozens of Israeli settlers protest in the northern West Bank, in the city of Huwara, following a fatal shooting the previous day.
According to protesters, border police officers will disperse the crowd with tear gas.
Protesters say they are calling on Israeli security forces to deal with “terror nests” in the area.
There are no quick reports or arrests.
Palestinian media report that settlers set fire to a space in the area.
Previously, several houses in the city had been torched by settlers, according to rights organization Yesh Din.
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Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich reacted harshly to the news that Israel agreed to freeze the deal at a security summit in Jordan the day before.
“I don’t know what we were talking about or not in Jordan,” he tweeted. “I heard about this unnecessary media summit, just like you. “
The head of far-right Zionism says that “there is one thing I know: the structure and progress in the settlements will not be frozen even for a day (and it is under my authority). “
According to Jordan, Israel agreed not to announce any new settlement structure for 4 to 6 months. Israel at the assembly said there are no announcements of agreements “expected in the coming months. “
Smotrich and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant last week signed an agreement giving Smotrich enforcement powers over illegal structures, authority over drawing up plans and structures for settlements, and land allocation issues.
Israeli settlers reportedly attacked Palestinians and burned several houses in the West Bank town of Huwara following a fatal terror attack there.
According to the rights organization Yesh Din, a Palestinian was slightly injured after being stabbed and 3 houses were set on fire.
Citing eyewitnesses and the municipality of Huwara, Yesh Din said dozens of settlers from the country were involved in the attack.
– Yasser Okbi (@OkbiYasser) February 26, 2023
A representative of Jordan’s Foreign Ministry said Israeli and Palestinian representatives at the Aqaba summit agreed to work for a “just and lasting peace” and stated that they want to “commit to reducing tension on the ground. “
They also said that both sides agreed to maintain the prestige quo on the Temple Mount and Israel agreed to suspend approvals of new agreements in the West Bank for 4 to 6 months.
He also said the two sides agreed on “confidence-building measures” and will meet next month in Egypt.
The Israeli at the assembly did not mention the Temple Mount and said a resolution on building new settlements is not expected “in the coming months. “
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant orders the Israel Defense Forces to step up operations in the West Bank to locate the gunman who killed two Israelis in the city of Huwara earlier.
“Gallant has directed law enforcement to concentrate their operational and intelligence efforts on capturing terrorists, while taking all mandatory measures and adding offensive moves to prevent further attacks,” his office said after conducting an assessment with senior defense officials.
Gallant also approves of army forces in the West Bank, “with the aim of expanding defense operations in settlements and on roads,” his workplace added.
An Israeli-Palestinian security summit in Aqaba ended with a series of agreements, according to Jordanian and Israeli sources.
A senior Israeli official said the summit ended with “an agreement to identify a joint security committee” to renew Israeli-Palestinian security cooperation. The sides also agreed to hold another assembly, sponsored by Egypt, before Ramadan, which is due to begin in less than a month, “to review progress in the security domain. “
Israeli officials at the summit said Jerusalem would not oppose their resolution to legalize nine deal outposts in the West Bank and build 9,500 housing complexes there, but has no plans to make any additional deal announcements in the coming months.
Jordan’s state-run Al-Mamlaka broadcaster said the talks ended with an “agreement on a series of measures. “
Israel sent Shin Bet leader Ronen Bar and national security adviser Tzachi Hanegbi to talks, while the Palestinians sent PA intelligence leader Majed Faraj. U. S. Also in attendance were National Security Council coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa, Brett McGurk, as well as Jordanian and Egyptian security officials.
Esti Yaniv, the mother of brothers Hallel and Yagel Yaniv who died in a terrorist attack today, says nothing will fill the emptiness of her heart.
“We won a massive slap in the face from God,” he was quoted as saying in Hebrew media. “We’re looking to locate the smart things, the kindness, that we had a circle of Shabbat family together, smart conversations with the kids. “
“We have a big void in our hearts,” he continues. “Nothing will close this hole, the structure [of the settlement], a demonstration – thing. “
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich joins a call for Israel to withdraw its delegation from an ongoing security summit with the Palestinian Authority in Jordan following the fatal shooting attack the previous day.
“We speak with terror. We provoke terror,” Smotrich tweeted after the terror attack.
“I call on the prime minister to bring the Israeli delegation from Aqaba without delay,” he added, calling on the cabinet to meet to discuss a series of security measures after the attack.
Israel sent Shin Bet leader Ronen Bar and national security adviser Tzachi Hanegbi to the Aqaba summit to meet with Palestinian, American, Jordanian and Egyptian officials.
Israeli police leader Kobi Shabatai said security forces will work tirelessly to capture the terrorist who shot dead two Israelis near Huwara the previous day.
“I accept as true with the Shin Bet intelligence services and the IDF, who will know how to succeed in terrorism,” Shabtai said in a statement.
“We are in a very delicate scenario and this requires everyone to be on operational alert,” he said, adding that “the Israeli police are entering a state of maximum alert to be at the point of preparation for the operation. “
The two victims of the shooting attack near Huwara are brothers Hallel Yaniv, 21, and Yagel Yaniv, 19, citizens of the Har Bracha agreement in the West Bank.
The two men were killed when a Palestinian gunman opened fire at point-blank range in his car on Route 60 and then fled on foot, according to the IDF.
Jordan’s King Abdullah told a visiting U. S. official that more efforts are underway to restore calm in the region amid rising violence between Israel and Palestinians.
Abdullah “emphasized the desire to accentuate efforts toward calm and détente in the Palestinian territories” to White House Middle East and North Africa coordinator Brett McGurk, according to a Jordanian government statement.
McGurk is in Jordan to attend an Israeli-Palestinian security summit in Aqaba. Israel sent national security adviser Tzachi Hanegbi and Shin Bet leader Ronen Bar to attend the meeting.
Abdullah also called for “stopping any unilateral measures that could lead to instability and undermine the clients of peace” and reviving Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, Amman said.
A man accused of threatening to speed his vehicle towards anti-government protesters last night had his pre-trial detention extended while police continue to investigate the incident.
A total of 21 protesters were arrested in clashes with police last night when some broke through police barriers to block the Ayalon road, and five remained in custody overnight, reports Ynet News. All would have been released today.
Yosef Haim Mamia is being held for 3 days in the Tel Aviv Court of First Instance on suspicion of endangering human lives in public. He is also suspected of reckless driving in a vehicle, aggravating obstruction of a police officer and assault on a police officer in the functionality of his duties.
The Cabinet Committee on Legislation votes in favour of a bill that would allow courts to impose the death penalty for certain terrorist offences.
“On this complicated day, when two Israeli citizens were killed in a Palestinian terror attack, there is nothing more symbolic than passing a law on the death penalty for terrorists,” National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir said.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the government “will continue to function in each and every way. . . to deter terrorists and Israel’s security. Our reaction to terror is to vigorously fight terror and deepen our roots in our country. “
The attorney general has spoken out against the bill, a bill that Ben Gvir has been asking for for a long time.
National Mission Minister Orit Strock is calling for her to withdraw her delegation to ongoing security talks with Palestinians in Aqaba, Jordan, following a fatal terror shooting in the West Bank.
“The terror attack in Huwara demands a swift return of the Israeli delegation from the Aqaba summit,” tweeted Strock of the far-right Religious Zionism party. “There is no position for a summit with those who pay the murderers of Jews. “. “
Israeli and Palestinian representatives are in talks in Jordan, according to the kingdom’s official media, with the “political security” assembly aimed at restoring calm after the fatal violence.
Jordanian state TV channel Al-Mamlaka said the meeting, which begins at Aqaba’s Red Sea hotel, is “the first of its kind in years between Palestinians and Israelis with regional and foreign participation” and will address “the scenario in the Palestinian territories. “
Assembly sources say Palestinian intelligence leader Majed Faraj and the head of Israel’s Shin Bet internal security agency, Ronen Bar, are expected to attend.
Hamas denounces the involvement of the Palestinian Authority.
The assembly is “a shameless to cover up the crimes of the ongoing [Israeli] occupation, and a green light to commit violations against our people, lands and holy places,” Hamas said in a statement.
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant will conduct an assessment with security officials in the coming hours following the fatal shooting attack in Huwara, his native said.
Su says Gallant is “regularly briefed on the main points of the terrorist attack. “
Two victims of an alleged shooting in the West Bank town of Huwara have died, according to medics.
The sick were not immediately identified but were known as citizens of the nearby Har Bracha settlement, according to local officials.
The Samaria Regional Council earlier said the victims were Jewish and that the incident was a terrorist attack.
The military has yet to prove that the shooting was a terrorist attack.
Iran’s currency fell to a new record, falling to 600,000 for the first time as the effects of domestic anti-government protests and the collapse of the 2015 nuclear deal continued to rattle the economy.
Iranians have formed long lines outdoors at exchange houses in recent days, hoping to earn scarce dollars. Many have noticed that their savings evaporate as the local currency has deteriorated. Inflation reached 53. 4% in January, up from 41. 4% two years ago, according to Iran’s Statistics Center.
Iran’s currency was trading at 32,000 rials to the dollar when the 2015 nuclear deal was signed with world powers.
Medics say they are responding to reports of two other people seriously injured in a shooting in the West Bank, the city of Huwara.
Images from the scene of a car with Israeli license plates riddled with bullets.
Rescuers Without Borders’ emergency service says two other people are seriously injured. The context of the incident is unclear.
The Israel Defense Forces describe the incident on Route 60 in Huwara as a “shooting incident,” and not without delay call it a terror attack.
Deputy Attorney General Gil Limon issued a formal opinion against the government’s plan to pass a law that would particularly restrict the grounds for disqualifying a sitting minister.
Such a decision, Limon writes, would create a “legal black hole,” which would not allow for any judicial review.
A Likud bill filed last week states that only the prime minister or cabinet, with a 75% majority, can claim that a prime minister is unworthy, and only for reasons similar to his intellectual or physical health.
The law was introduced after rumors circulated that the attorney general contemplated signaling to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he was unfit for office, an idea she temporarily denied.
Two men were shot dead in Bi’ina, an Arab city in northern Israel, according to police.
According to police, the men, citizens of the city, were shot dead while sitting in a car.
Police say they are looking for suspects in a helicopter and have already arrested two people.
It is suspected that the incident was a confrontation between robber elements, to the police.
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