The Times of Israel livestreamed Tuesday’s events as they unfolded.
The Israel Defense Forces said troops shot down a small quadcopter drone introduced by Hamas terror over the northern Gaza Strip the day before.
According to the IDF, the small, ready-to-use plane was monitored on its flight and did not cross Israel’s barrier with the coastal enclave. He was shot dead while near the border fence.
The Israeli military does not specify how it was fired; However, it is believed that it was done by means of electronic warfare.
The drone was removed by the army for further inspection, the IDF added.
Knesset Speaker Mickey Levy said he would allow the presentation of the new maritime agreement with Lebanon to the Knesset plenary tomorrow, so that action would not be delayed for up to a week due to the holiday of Sukkot.
This, Levy says, “will allow Knesset members to review their main points as soon as possible, after the cabinet discusses it. “
A new vote on the Twelfth Channel shows that a plurality of Israelis the new maritime agreement with Lebanon.
The survey of 500 people, with a margin of error of 4. 4%, found that 40% agree while 29% oppose. Meanwhile, 31% say they do not know.
Channel Twelve investigates voting intentions and finds that Benjamin Netanyahu’s devoted right-wing bloc still has a majority with 59 seats planned for the next Knesset.
A momentary vote for Kan Netanyahu’s 60-seat bloc.
More from the more sensible U. S. official, who is sidelining critics of Trump’s management and the Israeli opposition who have called the U. S. -brokered maritime agreement between Israel and Lebanon a deal tilted in favor of Beirut and the Hezbollah terror organization.
“Many other people have said in recent days that it is possible that a greater agreement has been reached in one respect or another. Others said they may have negotiated a larger deal, some from the region, some from the United States. They were in power. They didn’t reach a major agreement,” the senior official said.
“And when those supposed larger terms for both sides were on the table, they ended up getting a deal and celebrating it. “
He rejected the argument that previous proposals had been more for Israel.
“There were several proposals of the so-called major situations for one aspect or another, but since they were accepted, they were only proposals, and the risk of insecurity, violence and confrontation continued to increase. “
“The past of paper is just that,” he said.
A senior Biden administration official warns that Israel and Lebanon are opposed to waiting to ratify the U. S. -brokered maritime deal as the Israeli government comes under pressure from opposition lawmakers who argue the deal will not be signed through an interim cabinet with elections in weeks.
“No one can guarantee what the long term holds, and no one can guarantee that opportunities for Israel’s long-term, for Israel’s security and Lebanon’s economic prosperity will continue to exist at some other time,” the senior U. S. official said.
He alluded to optimism that the agreement will indeed be completed, saying in a call to the convention that “governments on both sides are aware of the political truth in which they live, and I am confident that this agreement will be signed and enter into force. “[as soon as possible]. “
“When the opportunity arises and there is a path to an agreement, we will have to build on the momentum,” the senior official added.
A senior Biden management official claims Israel is on Karish’s fuel box in the eastern Mediterranean and rejects Hezbollah’s past threats that the terror organization would attack Israel if it had begun extraction of herbal fuel at the site before a maritime deal was reached.
Asked via The Times of Israel in a telephone press conference whether the recently announced maritime agreement between Israel and Lebanon paid attention to Hezbollah’s threats, the senior US official said: “Threats are not the driving force behind those negotiations. What motivated them was the desire to protect the entire coast for Israel and to supply Lebanon’s economic interests.
“In this context, the United States has supported Israel’s right to expand Karish, and we are very happy that Lebanon can now expand the [Qana camp] as well as others,” the official added.
The Ukrainian presidency claims that 32 of its foot soldiers have been released and that the body of an Israeli citizen was discovered in the latest prisoner exchange with Russia.
“Another prisoner exchange took position today. We controlled the loss of 32 of our foot soldiers and the frame of Israeli citizen Dmytro Fialka,” Andriy Yermak, the president’s chief of staff, wrote on Telegram.
Fialka fought alongside Ukrainian forces and was killed in action on 1 September.
Biden questions the Israeli-Lebanese deal, calling it a “historic breakthrough in the Middle East. “
“Energy, especially in the Eastern Mediterranean, serves as a tool for cooperation, stability, security and prosperity, not for conflict,” he said. “The agreement announced today by the two governments will allow the progression of power fields to gain advantages from either country, paving the way for a more robust and filthy rich region and harnessing important new energy resources for the world.
“It is now that all parties respect their commitments and paints towards its implementation. “
He says the deal “protects Israel’s security and economic interests to sell its regional integration” while offering Lebanon “the area to start its own exploitation of energy resources. “
The Prime Minister’s Office is releasing what it says are the key issues of the new maritime border agreement with Lebanon.
The existing border line marked across Israeli buoys will be identified as the prestige quo, replacing the agreement on both sides. At the end of the buoys, the border will extend along line 23 (see image).
Israel will get financial reimbursement of a certain percentage of the proceeds of the Qana fuel box that will be owned by Lebanon, which will be in negotiations with the drilling company TotalEnergies.
Israel will obtain a letter of assurance from the United States outlining Washington’s commitment to Israel’s security and economic rights in the event that Hezbollah or party fails to comply with the agreement.
The Prime Minister’s Office says the deal will contribute to border stability and decrease Lebanon’s dependence on Iranian funds.
Biden also Lebanese President Michel Aoun, according to the latter’s office.
Biden congratulated Auon “on the conclusion of negotiations to demarcate the southern maritime boundary, underscoring U. S. assistance to Lebanon to achieve stability and enable it to strengthen its economy and take advantage of its herbal resources,” he said.
US President Joe Biden speaks by phone with Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid and congratulates him on the maritime agreement with Lebanon, the Prime Minister’s Office said.
“You make history,” Biden told Lapid, according to the reading. The American leader thanked the Israeli team involved in the negotiations, while Lapid thanked the American mediators, especially envoy Amos Hochstein.
According to the statement, Biden reiterated his commitment to Israeli security and regional stability.
Staff Sgt. Ido Baruch, 21, is the Israeli soldier killed in a West Bank shooting the day before, he said.
Baruch, from the central city of Gedera and the infantry brigade of Givati’s army, was shot dead by a Palestinian gunman while securing a march near the Shavei Shomron agreement.
There are no specific main points about the funeral.
The Kyiv branch of Israeli coffee chain Aroma Espresso Bar broke up in yesterday’s Russian missile attack, Israel’s ambassador to the country said.
Michael Brodsky tweets a symbol of the place.
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Nikolas Cruz, who shot and killed 17 others at a Florida high school in 2018, planned and carried out a “systematic massacre,” said a prosecutor who called for the death penalty.
“What did he want to do, what his plan was and what he did to murder the children at school and their caregivers,” prosecutor Michael Satz said in closing arguments at Cruz’s sentencing trial, 24.
“It was calculated. It was intentional. And it was a systematic massacre,” the deputy prosecutor said.
“And he chose Valentine’s Day to do it,” he said in a quiet courtroom filled with a circle of relatives of those killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, a city north of Miami.
Cruz pleaded guilty to the shooting and is now up to a jury whether he receives the death penalty or life in prison.
President Joe Biden will have to “reassess” U. S. relations with Saudi Arabia in light of OPEC’s resolve to cut oil production, a White House spokesman said.
“I think the president has been very transparent that this is a date that we want to keep reevaluating, that we want to be ready to review,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told CNN.
“Certainly, in light of OPEC’s decision, I think that’s where it is. “
Defense Minister Benny Gantz said security forces will capture the Palestinian gunman who killed a soldier in the West Bank the day before.
“I would like to express my condolences to the family,” Gantz said on Twitter.
“The chase continues those hours,” he said, vowing to capture the gunmen “and those who helped him. “
Gantz added that army operations in the West Bank “will continue and intensify for the security of Israel’s citizens. “
Iran says the government arrested a “Zionist spy,” Tasnim news firm reports.
A prosecutor says the alleged spy “intended to reveal subversive and anti-security measures” in Kerman province.
He says the spy “was active in the country under the guise of self-employment and business. “
Iran periodically claims to arrest Israeli spies. The veracity of these statements is known.
A soldier wounded in a shootout near the Shavei Shomron deal in the West Bank the day before succumbed to his injuries at a hospital in central Israel, according to the military.
The soldier was securing an organized march through settlers in the area. The alleged Palestinian gunman, who opened fire from a passing car, fled the area.
The soldier was taken to Meir Medical Center in Kfar Saba in serious condition, where he later died.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is urging Group of Seven countries to buy and deploy air defense systems after Russian missiles severely breached Ukraine’s electrical installations.
“I ask for the overall effort to financially help the creation of an air shield for Ukraine. Millions of others will be grateful to the Group of Seven for this help,” he said in a video in front of G7 leaders.
Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu said the new agreement on the maritime border with Lebanon is “a historic surrender” to Hezbollah.
“This is a historic agreement, this is a historic surrender,” he said in a statement. “A liquidation sale through Lapid. “
“For more than a decade, the government I led gave in to Nasrallah’s threats and we had a war. Within 3 months, Lapid completely surrendered to all of Hezbollah’s demands.
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is scheduled to deliver a previously scheduled speech later on Tuesday, in which he is expected to give his reaction to the maritime boundary agreement.
A man shot dead in the city of Lod. Paramedics who arrived at the scene pronounced the man dead.
The victim is approximately 30 years old.
Police are investigating his death.
Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked said she would vote against the maritime deal with Lebanon if the government submitted it to the Knesset for approval.
“Every vital agreement in recent history has been submitted to the Knesset for approval, with the understanding that vital issues will have to be presented” to parliament.
She says this is even more true in a state that serves as a parent.
A lawyer for former President Donald Trump, who signed a letter claiming that a “diligent search” had been conducted for classified documents and that all those documents had been returned to the government, spoke to the FBI, according to a user familiar with the matter.
Christina Bobb told federal investigators in Friday’s interview that she had not yet written the letter and that another Trump lawyer, who said he had prepared it, asked her to sign it in his role as designated custodian of Trump’s records, said the person, who insisted on anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.
The procedure is of interest to investigators because the Justice Department says the letter was false by claiming that all classified documents sought through the government had been located and returned. Although the letter and 38 documents with classification marks were presented to the FBI and Justice Department officials on the June 3 Mar-a-Lago layover, agents returned to the Florida estate with a search warrant on Aug. 8 and confiscated about a hundred more people. Classified files.
Lebanon is calling on French powerhouse TotalEnergies to release fuel exploration off its coast, after Israel said the two countries had reached a U. S. -brokered deal to establish their maritime border.
Lebanon’s pursuit of wealth in the hydrocarbon-rich eastern Mediterranean has stalled since 2020 due to competing claims with Israel over offshore fields.
Following Israel’s announcement, Lebanon’s Prime Minister Najib Mikati is meeting with a visiting delegation from TotalEnergies, which received an exploration license in 2018.
“During the meeting, Mikati asked TotalEnergies representatives to start taking operational measures to drill in Lebanese waters,” his workplace said in a statement.
Russia is adding U. S. technology Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, to a list of “terrorist and extremist” organizations, according to a database from the Federal Financial Supervisory Service (Rosfinmonitoring).
In late March, Russia banned Facebook and Instagram for “engaging in extremist activities” after the government accused Meta of tolerating the “Russophobia” of the Russian military’s crusade in Ukraine.
Russian moves in the Dnipropetrovsk region in central Ukraine have “severely” damaged energy facilities, the region’s chief said, at the time when large missile salvos occurred in Ukraine.
“The Russians fired missiles at the electrical infrastructure of Pavlograd and Kamian districts. There is serious destruction. Many settlements still have electricity,” regional governor Valentin Reznichenko said on social media.
The Kremlin says it expects more “confrontation” with the West, ahead of an emergency G7 meeting to discuss Russia’s latest moves opposing Ukraine.
“The pre-summit environment is well understood, it’s predictable without problems. It will continue,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, adding that Russia “will achieve the goals it has set” in Ukraine.
Peskov also criticizes Washington’s pledge to supply Ukraine with “advanced air defense systems. “
“De facto, the United States is already mired in this matter,” he said, adding that the deliveries will make “this longer and more painful for the Ukrainian side. “
“But it may not replace our goals and the bottom line,” he adds.
Greece’s fitness minister denounces his far-right father for a Nazi salute given the ongoing appeal trial of the neo-Nazi organization Golden Dawn.
Thanos Plevris, a former member of Greece’s far-right Laos party, the move is “bestial. “
The minister told Skai TV he was angry that his father Kostas Plevris, who defends a jailed former Golden Dawn MEP at trial, made the gesture last week to testimony from the mother of Pavlos Fyssas, a murdered anti-fascist rapper. member of Golden Dawn in 2013.
“It made me tremble,” Plevris told Skai TV. First, salvation within a courtroom. And second. . . in front of a woman whose son was murdered by a Nazi.
The world will have to double the source of electricity from renewables by 2030 to prevent climate change from jeopardizing global energy security, according to the United Nations.
Not only is the energy sector a major source of carbon emissions driving climate change, but it is also vulnerable to the adjustments that accompany global warming, the United Nations World Meteorological Organization notes.
In its annual report on the state of meteorological services, WMO warns that intense extreme weather events, droughts, floods and sea-level rise, all related to time replacement, are already making energy sources less reliable.
“Time is ticking in our favour and our climate is turning before our eyes,” said WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas.
“We want a complete transformation of the global energy system. “
A man in his sixties seriously injured after being stabbed in the commercial area of Shoham, east of Tel Aviv.
The guy ran to sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan.
Police suspect the motive for the attack is criminal. The suspect, an East Jerusalem resident, fled but was arrested a short time later.
Sweden’s prime minister said his country could share with Russia the main points of its investigation into last month’s underwater explosions that ruptured two key fuel lines in the Baltic Sea, raising confidentiality around the investigation.
“In Sweden, there is secrecy around the initial investigation and that also applies in this case,” Magdalena Andersson said of the explosion and ruptures that occurred in waters off the Swedish Baltic coast, but in the country’s exclusive economic zone.
The explosions ruptured the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, which, until Russia cut off supplies in late August, was its main source of fuel to Germany.
They also broke the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which was never put into service because Germany suspended its certification procedure some time before Russia invaded Ukraine in February.
Broken pipes released massive amounts of methane, a tough greenhouse gas, into the air.
The Russian Defense Ministry said its forces had renewed movements at Ukraine’s electrical installations, a day after Moscow carried out a nationwide bombing of the pro-Western country.
The Russian military “continued to make mass movements with high-precision, long-range weapons. . . against the command facilities and power system of the Ukrainian army,” the ministry said in a statement, adding that “all assigned objectives were achieved. “
Defense Minister Benny Gantz said the new agreement on the maritime border with Lebanon “is fair and for both sides. “He said Israel “wants a solid and disgustingly rich Lebanese neighbor. “
During a visit to Northern Command headquarters in Safed, the minister said the main points of the agreement will be communicated to the public “with full transparency. “He said the defense status quo has ensured that the deal meets all security needs.
“We have conceded and will grant a millimeter in security. “
Gantz also claims that the deal is progressing “despite threats from the terrorist group Hezbollah, which has tried to sabotage the process. “
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