The Times of Israel is liveblogging Tuesday’s events as they unfold.
Israeli authorities released a player on the Palestinian national women’s soccer team after six days in detention in Jerusalem, her mother and police tell AFP.
Wissam Halawani say Israeli police released her daughter Rand Halawani, 20, on Sunday evening, with an order to remain under house arrest for five days.
Halawani tells AFP that she had “gone through very difficult times over the past few days” following her daughter’s detention, and that she now feels “overwhelming joy” after her return home.
Israeli authorities released Rand Halawani, 20, a player on the Palestinian national women's football team, after six days in detention in Jerusalem. pic.twitter.com/y66Sstrkrx
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An Israeli police spokesperson tells AFP that “the court has ordered that the suspect remain under house arrest,” and stresses that “this ruling does not indicate or determine the outcome of any future legal proceedings.”
Police had said last week that Halawani was arrested along with an 18-year-old man in relation to an incident in Jerusalem in which objects were allegedly thrown from a balcony at demonstrators marching on a street below.
“The investigation remains ongoing, and evidentiary material continues to be collected and assessed,” police tell AFP.
The Palestinian Football Association celebrates Halawani’s release in a statemen.
“Rand Halawani breathes freedom,” the association says in a social media post, accompanied by an image showing her wearing the Palestinian national team’s red kit.
The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor Karim Khan has been suspended pending a vote by member states on his fate, the court’s governing body says following a probe into accusations of sexual harassment made against him.
A diplomatic source briefed on the decision says the court’s governing body’s executive bureau has ruled Khan had committed serious misconduct following an 18-months long probe into accusations that Khan had non-consensual sexual interactions with a lawyer in his office.
Khan, who issued warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant over the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, has always denied the charges. The ICC’s governing body will send its conclusion on to all 125 ICC member states who are expected to put Khan’s possible removal from office to a vote at a later date.
A suspected Hezbollah drone triggered sirens in several border communities in the Western Galilee a short while ago.
The IDF says “the incident has concluded,” and that no injuries were caused.
A drone launched at Israel by the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen was intercepted by air defenses over the southernmost city of Eilat a short while ago, the military says.
Sirens had sounded in Eilat amid the incident.
On Monday morning, the Houthis fired two ballistic missiles at Israel. The IDF said one was intercepted and the second failed to reach the country.
Israeli missile defense appears to have downed a Houthi drone detected in Eilat, southern Israel a short time ago. pic.twitter.com/DsSKxJVPDK
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Sirens warning of a suspected drone attack sound in the southernmost city of Eilat.
A short while ago, sirens warning of a drone attack from Lebanon also sounded in the Western Galilee.
The IDF says it is looking into the details.
