The Times of Israel wrote on its blog about Saturday’s events as they unfolded.
A 15-year-old woman from the central city of Lod was slightly injured after being shot dead in what appears to be a family dispute, according to police.
The victim arrived at Shamir Medical Center in good condition, according to the statement.
Police arrested a 30-year-old man related to the victim on suspicion of being involved in the incident. The suspect will face Rishon Lezion District Court on Sunday. Police said they would ask to increase his detention to investigate the case.
Israel is freezing a resolution that would increase the work permit quota for Palestinians in Gaza to 15,500, after terrorists in the coastal enclave introduced four rockets into southern Israel overnight.
Israel’s army liaison with the Palestinians, widely known by its acronym COGAT, announced Tuesday that another 1,500 tickets would be added to the quota.
But in the wake of the rocket attacks, Defense Minister Benny Gantz to freeze the movement, COGAT said.
“The Hamas terrorist organization has a duty for everything that is done and emanates from the Gaza Strip to the State of Israel, and it will bear the consequences,” he said.
Israeli airlines are requesting to use Saudi skies for their flights starting this week, after Riyadh said it would allow them to fly over its territory, according to the Thirteenth Channel.
The network says El Al and Arkia are requesting to divert flights scheduled for this week to destinations in the east, which would shorten flight times by up to 3 hours.
The Israeli security status quo believes there will be no escalation with the Gaza Strip after 4 rockets were fired at Israel over the weekend and following retaliatory moves in Gaza through the IDF, according to Hebrew media.
The Twelfth Channel reports that Hamas has made it known that it is interested in an escalation.
In reaction to the rockets, the Israeli army said it hit “one of the largest and highest sites in the Gaza Strip for the production of critical rocket fabrics. “
The Unsourced Twelfth Channel report indicates that the target was significant and that Israel succeeded in it even despite the escalation, as it saw the rocket attack as an opportunity to reach a key Hamas site.
It is not known who fired the rockets. Ynet reports, without citing a source, that the guilty Israeli officials were rebel elements frustrated by Joe Biden’s scale in Israel and the evident warming of relations between Jerusalem and Saudi Arabia.
Defense Minister Benny Gantz, Army Leader Aviv Kohavi and senior defense officials are recently conducting an assessment of the nightly rocket fire from the Gaza Strip.
The Israel Defense Forces responded with a series of airstrikes in Gaza. Lately, officials are discussing other responses, adding the closure of the Erez border crossing to civilian traffic.
Participants in the assembly come with the IDF army’s intelligence chief, Major General Aharon Haliva, and the army’s liaison with the Palestinians, Major General Ghassan Alian.
A senior Iranian army officer died as a “martyr” while “fulfilling his mission,” according to Iranian media.
The funeral of Admiral Beitaleh Devsalar will take place on Sunday in front of the Admiralty of Nowshahr, on the country’s northern coast, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.
It is not known precisely how the officer was killed, but the term “martyr” is regularly given to those who were killed on vital missions.
The man’s death comes as tensions remain high over Iran’s tattered nuclear deal with world powers and its uranium enrichment program, which is now the closest it has come to military-grade levels.
The most recent incident is one of many mysterious deaths of leading Iranian military figures in months. Last month, two members of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guards’ aerospace department were killed as “martyrs” in Iran in separate incidents.
The British government held an emergency reaction assembly on Saturday to plan for record temperatures next week after the weather government issued its first “red” warning in case of excessive heat.
The alert covers giant portions of England on Monday and Tuesday, when temperatures may exceed 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) for the first time, posing a threat of serious illness and even death in healthy people, the UK Met Office, the country’s weather service, said. service, he said Friday.
The British heat record is 38. 7 °C (101. 7 °F), set in 2019.
Train passengers and London Underground users have been asked not to do so on Monday and Tuesday unless absolutely necessary. Since the young and old are considered vulnerable to high temperatures, it has been suggested that schools and nursing homes take steps to protect students and the elderly. Most schools in England are still in consultation until the end of next week.
“If consumers want to travel, they want to check before they travel, as we expect there to be an effect on the subway and exercise facilities due to the transient speed restrictions we will have to introduce to ensure everyone’s safety. “said Lord. , Chief Operating Officer of Transport for London, which manages the capital’s transport system.
The alert comes as scientists say climate change increases the likelihood of exceptional heat waves in Britain, a country that is not used to such temperatures.
Few houses, apartments and small businesses in the country have air conditioning.
Britain has moderate summer temperatures. In the UK, average temperatures in July range from a daily high of 21 °C (70 °F) to a low of 12 °C (53 °F).
On Friday, London Mayor Sadiq Khan met with representatives of the National Health Service, police, fire brigade and other emergencies to set out certain plans to deal with the heat-related emergency.
A doctor warned that the upcoming heat wave and the buildup of COVID-19 infections were causing a nightmare for fitness workers.
“A lot of hospital buildings are very old, especially in London, and many don’t have air conditioning and windows that don’t open, so they’re incredibly hot,” said Dr. Brown. Claire Bronze, 38, an emergency room representative in London. members still have to wear PPE, i. e. plastic gowns, masks, gloves, in addition to their general uniform, which, as you can imagine, means that other people will be very hot and temporarily dehydrated. “
Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud said he was not aware of any discussions related to a GCC-Israel defense alliance after a senior U. S. official said the day before that the Biden administration saw “great value” in the built-in air defense network. it hopes to identify with Middle Eastern allies.
“There has been no discussion of a GCC-Israel defense alliance or anything like that, at least I am aware of such discussions,” Al Saud told a news conference.
Contradicting U. S. President Joe Biden, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud said Riyadh’s resolution to open its airspace to all civilian overflights “has nothing to do with diplomacy with Israel” and “is in no way a precursor to new measures. “Standardization.
Al Saud appears to need to throw bloodless water at stated expectations in Jerusalem and Washington that his decision, announced Thursday, to open its airspace to all civilian airlines — a move that will allow flights to and from Israel to China and India to take a much shorter and less expensive direction — marks a first step toward formal relations with Israel.
“No, it has nothing to do with diplomatic relations with Israel,” the minister said at a press conference following the GCC 3 summit in Jeddah. “The overflight factor is a resolution we have made about our commitments . . . and also in the interest of providing connectivity between the countries of the world, and we hope that this will make life less difficult for some travelers. It is by no means a precursor to any other stage.
In a speech Friday night after a pair of bilateral meetings with Saudi King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Biden called the resolution to fly over Riyadh a “big deal, only symbolically but substantially. “
“This is the first tangible step on the road to what I hope will ultimately be a broader normalization of relations” between Israel and Saudi Arabia, Biden added.
Similarly, on Friday morning, Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid praised Saudi Arabia for “opening Saudi airspace to Israeli airlines” as “the first official step in normalization with Saudi Arabia. “
He added: “I thank the Saudi leaders for opening up Saudi airspace. This is the first step.
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (U. S. President Joe Biden departs Jeddah for Washington after a four-day Middle East tour in Israel, the West Bank and Saudi Arabia.
Biden is seen at the airport in the coastal city by Prince Khaled al-Faisal, the governor of Mecca province.
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman warns that “unrealistic policies” to reduce emissions may only fuel inflation, as he presides over a summit of Arab leaders and US President Joe Biden.
The kingdom is the world’s largest crude exporter, Prince Mohammed, the de facto ruler, has sought to make environmentally friendly policies a centerpiece of his reform agenda.
Last year, Saudi Arabia committed ahead of the COP26 climate change summit to net zero carbon emissions by 2060, prompting skepticism among environmental activists.
“Adopting unrealistic policies to reduce emissions through primary energy resources will lead to unprecedented inflation and emerging energy costs in the coming years, while increasing unemployment and exacerbating serious social and security problems,” Prince Mohammed said.
The director of a first art exhibition in Germany resigned after an exhibition featuring anti-Semitic elements caused a stir at the event’s opening last month.
Documenta’s Board of Directors announces that Sabine Schormann is stepping down as CEO by mutual agreement. He also deplores what he describes as visual “distinctly anti-Semitic motivations” in one of the works presented on opening weekend.
“The presentation of the ‘People’s Justice’ banner through the Taring Padi Artists Collective with its anti-Semitic images was a transparent transgression and therefore caused significant harm to Documenta,” the board said.
The banner depicts a pig-faced soldier, dressed in a shawl with a Star of David and a helmet with the word “Mossad,” the call of the Israeli intelligence agency, written on it. He withdrew days after widespread complaint from Jewish teams and German and Israeli officials.
– Michael Weingardt (@Michael_Wgd) June 20, 2022
While US President Joe Biden excluded Israel from his comments in Jeddah today, King Abdullah of Jordan, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi and the Emir of Qatar, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the Jewish state in the context of the Palestinian question.
Abdullah warned that there will be no stability in the region without a solution to the conflict, and Sisi called for a two-state solution on the pre-1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital.
Al Thani proposed a position before calling on members not to “abandon” the Arab Peace Initiative just because Israel rejected the proposal.
The 2002 proposal gives Israel fully normalized relations with the 22-member Arab League of Israel to a two-state solution founded on the 1967 borders and with a just solution for Palestinian refugees.
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