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Katz says Houthi leadership only look out for themselves, neglecting citizens, after reports of them fleeing Sanaa
Defense Minister Israel Katz comments on reports of the remaining Houthi leadership fleeing Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, accusing them of prioritizing their own safety while abandoning civilians.
His comments come after Israel carried out a strike on Houthi leadership last week that killed several senior officials, including the group’s chief of staff and defense minister.
According to Saudi newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat, the remaining Houthi leadership is currently in an “unprecedented state of confusion and panic” after the strike on the cabinet meeting.
Several senior leaders reportedly fled Sanaa to rural areas in northern Yemen, while their families were moved to secure locations. Houthi officials have also instructed senior members to avoid government buildings or public gatherings, fearing further Israeli strikes.
“Like all leaders of extremist Islamist terror, they look after themselves and abandon the residents,” Katz writes on X, drawing a comparison to Hamas officials “in Gaza and in luxury hotels in Qatar” and now “the Houthis in Yemen.”
“We knew how to hunt them this time — and we will know how to do so in the future,” he adds.
Using allure of potential Nobel Peace Prize, hostages’ families urge Trump to end the Gaza war
L-R: Relatives of the hostages Dalia Kushnir, Ruby Chen, Michel Iluz, Lishay Miran-Lavi, and Gil Dickmann hold a press conference outside the US Embassy branch in Tel Aviv, on September 2, 2025. (Uriel Even Sapir/Hostages and Missing Families Forum)
Relatives of the hostages held a press conference outside the US Embassy branch in Tel Aviv earlier today, calling on US President Donald Trump to “make history again” and end the war in Gaza through a comprehensive hostage and ceasefire deal.
Sitting behind a large banner reading “Trump, Make History,” and in front of supporters holding mock-ups of Trump as a Nobel Peace Prize recipient, the families implored the US president to use pressure to free their loved ones, end the war in Gaza and restore calm to the Middle East.
“The Israeli government is in the midst of a new operation. An operation to ‘turn a blind eye and a deaf ear,'” said Lishay Miran-Lavi, the wife of hostage Omri Miran. “They don’t want to hear, they don’t want to see. But we won’t let them ignore it.”
“You have the power and ability to make history again, and to bring the greatest deal that will end this war and shape the Middle East for generations to come,” she implored.
Ruby Chen, the father of Itay Chen, tells Trump that the only thing blocking the implementation of his vision for the Middle East and a Nobel prize is “the release of the hostages and a ceasefire in Gaza,” while Gil Dickmann, the cousin of slain hostage Carmel Gat, tells him that “history will remember you as the one who made this deal.”
Chen recalls the heavy losses sustained by the US during the Vietnam War, which he says were due to then-president Richard Nixon prolonging the war “not for strategic reasons, but for political reasons.”
“Mr. President and Mr. Witkoff, our hope and strength are fading,” he pleads. “We need you to bring the light that will end the war, expand the Abraham Accords, and bring peace to the region.”
Netanyahu said considering forming a hand-picked panel to lead commission of inquiry into Oct. 7 disaster
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and Supreme Court Chief Justice Esther Hayut at a ceremony at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on June 17, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly considering forming a hand-picked panel to lead a commission of inquiry into the failures surrounding the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led onslaught as an alternative to an independent, powerhouse state commission of inquiry, which he has refused to authorize.
According to a Channel 12 report this evening, Netanyahu is inclining toward a “government” inquiry — a five-person panel, comprised of members of his choosing — to examine the failure surrounding the October 7 assault.
He is leaning toward this course, having concluded that Supreme Court President Isaac Amit, who would be expected to appoint a retired Supreme Court justice to head a state commission, was unlikely to coordinate and compromise with him on the members of a state commission of inquiry. Netanyahu believes Amit would appoint former Supreme Court president Esther Hayut, a former adversary who has castigated the coalition’s efforts to radically limit the powers and independence of the Supreme Court, to head such a panel, the unsourced report says.
Among those he is reportedly eyeing to serve on the panel are a specific retired district judge and a former IDF general, who are seen as coming from the political right.
Netanyahu’s potential panel would be given the same powers as a state commission of inquiry, which includes the authority to subpoena witnesses. The key difference, the report notes, however, is that the panel would be picked by the prime minister who held overall responsibility on, and long before, October 7.
A state commission would likely implicate Netanyahu in the October 7 failures, and would have the power to issue personal recommendations against him and others it deemed responsible. Netanyahu has argued that a substantial part of the populace would doubt the findings of a state commission since they do not have faith in the integrity of the judiciary.
Almost two years on from the onslaught, the government has yet to take any formal steps to form a commission of inquiry.
US Secretary of State Rubio to visit Israel later this month; early contacts reported on possible Netanyahu-Trump meeting in US
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks during a press conference in Jerusalem on February 16, 2025. (Evelyn Hockstein/ POOL/ AFP)
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will visit Israel in two weeks, an Israeli official tells The Times of Israel.
The official says that Rubio is coming for a private event in Jerusalem. According to Channel 12, the event will take place in the City of David outside the Old City.
It is not clear whether Rubio will meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but it is hard to imagine a senior US official coming to Jerusalem and not meeting with Israel’s leadership.
Meanwhile, Channel 12 reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could meet US President Donald Trump during his UN trip at the end of the month. Efforts have begun to explore that possibility, the report says.
Man dies of wounds sustained in Lod shooting earlier today
A man who was shot earlier today in Lod has died of his injuries, police announce.
The middle-aged victim lived in Herzliya. He was a convicted criminal who was “due to begin serving a six-year prison sentence for importing drugs,” according to law enforcement.
Police add that they have arrested five suspects in connection with the shooting, which took place in the mixed city’s Neve Yarak neighborhood.
The man was critically wounded after assailants opened fire on him at close range, near the entrance to a property belonging to a local crime family.
He was taken by paramedics to the hospital, where he later succumbed to his wounds.
Central District police commander Yair Hetzroni has assigned the investigation to the district police’s investigations and intelligence unit.
Rubio tells French counterpart US strongly opposes unilateral recognition of Palestinian state
During a phone call earlier today with French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio conveyed Washington’s “strong opposition to any unilateral recognition of a Palestinian State, the State Department says.
The US readout calls such recognitions a “reward for Hamas for October 7 and hinder efforts to bring all hostages home,” falling in line with Israel’s approach to the move.
While US President Donald Trump has at times expressed a softer stance, saying that world leaders have a right to their own opinions on the matter, Rubio has led a series of more hardline steps by the administration, including withholding visas to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his delegation who had hoped to attend the UN General Assembly where France, the UK, Australia, Canada and Belgium are slated to recognize Palestine later this month.
No such visa bans are being applied to the representatives themselves who plan on issuing those declarations.
US ambassador Huckabee said to tell Smotrich that Washington fears Palestinian Authority may collapse
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee delivers remarks as US President Donald Trump hosts Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a dinner in the Blue Room of the White House on July 7, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik / Getty Images via AFP)
US Ambassador Mike Huckabee has told Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and other ministers that Washington is extremely concerned about the collapse of the Palestinian Authority, Channel 12 reports.
The PA doesn’t have enough money to pay salaries, as Smotrich has ordered the withholding of funds that are usually transferred to Ramallah.
“If the Palestinian economy collapses, that is nobody’s victory,”
Huckabee tells Channel 12, adding that “desperate people do desperate things.”
Attempts to work out a solution to keep the PA solvent fell apart after France and other Western countries announced they would recognize a Palestinian state, reports Channel 12.
Dermer said to tell mediators Israel hasn’t ruled out partial deal, despite comments to the contrary
Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer speaks at the Jewish News Syndicate conference in Jerusalem, on April 28, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer has told mediating nations that Israel hasn’t ruled out a partial hostage release deal with Hamas, according to a Channel 13 report.
He reportedly told the mediators not to put too much weight on the public remarks coming out of Israel regarding a hostage deal, or Jerusalem’s stated insistence that it is only interested in a comprehensive deal on its own terms, and that it will no longer entertain the possibility of a phased agreement.
It is not clear from the report which of the three main mediators — the US, Egypt, and Qatar — Dermer communicated this to.
According to the report, his remarks left the mediating countries cautiously optimistic about the possibility of resuming negotiations in the not-too-distant future.
‘What began in Gaza must end in Gaza:’ Netanyahu says Israel facing ‘decisive stage’ of war with Hamas
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a video statement on September 2, 2025. (Screenshot/GPO)
Israel is “standing before the decisive stage” of the war against Hamas, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says in a video address to IDF soldiers as the preparations for the conquest of Gaza City ramp up.
“We are working to defeat Hamas,” he says, “but along the way we have also achieved wonders together, because we broke the Iranian axis – in Gaza, in Lebanon with Hezbollah, with the Assad regime that collapsed, with Iran itself that threatened us with existential threats which we removed together, and now also with the Houthis.”
“But what began in Gaza – must end in Gaza,” he continues.
Netanyahu says that throughout the war, his government made “very difficult decisions. Decisions no one believed we could actually carry out. But we carried them out because you gave us – and me – the strength to move Israel toward total victory.”
“Now we stand before the stage of decision. I believe in you, I trust you, and the entire nation embraces you,” he says, as tens of thousands of reservists are called up.
Negligence, lack of accountability led to deadly incidents at Golani Brigade’s Gaza outpost — report
A series of deadly incidents in the Golani Brigade’s outpost in southern Gaza point to what soldiers and commanders describe as a “lack of operational discipline that costs lives,” the Haaretz newspaper reports.
Troops quoted by the paper say repeated warnings to senior officers were ignored and that investigations into the incidents have been superficial, leaving commanders unaccountable.
One of the incidents highlighted by Haaretz is the death of Staff Sgt. (res.) Ariel Lubliner, who was killed Saturday when a guard at the outpost fired at a logistics convoy. Haaretz says the soldier had previously pointed his weapon at the convoy for unclear reasons, but was not removed from his post and continues to serve there.
The IDF confirms Lubliner’s death was caused by an “accidental discharge” and says the case remains under investigation, with findings to be shared transparently with his family.
Another case cited by Haaretz involves Cpl. Amit Cohen, who in July was killed when a civilian drone armed with a bomb malfunctioned and exploded near troops. Soldiers tell the news outlet that Cohen was ordered by commanders to attach the bomb, despite regulations prohibiting such use, and accuse officers of wrongly blaming Cohen for mishandling the device.
The IDF, in response, says Cohen’s death is still under investigation and that his family will receive all findings once the process concludes.
Haaretz also reports close calls at the outpost, including a fire in soldiers’ living quarters, allegedly caused by a discarded cigarette, which damaged equipment and forced an evacuation. The outlet further cites an incident in which a mortar team from the same battalion mistakenly struck a building housing dozens of their own soldiers.
The IDF confirms a fire broke out due to a cigarette — stressing that no injuries or equipment loss occurred — without addressing the alleged mortar incident.
Beyond individual cases, Haaretz describes broader negligence, such as explosives stored carelessly, fatigue from prolonged deployment, and soldiers disregarding basic discipline, including walking barefoot in a combat zone.
The IDF rejects these claims, saying that apart from shower areas, troops are not permitted to be barefoot or unarmed.
240 ultra-Orthodox men enlisted yesterday, 198 of them entering combat tracks, IDF says
Ultra-Orthodox men draft into designated Haredi units in the IDF as part of the September draft cycle, September 1, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
The IDF says 240 ultra-Orthodox men enlisted yesterday as part of the September draft cycle into designated Haredi tracks.
According to the military, 198 recruits entered combat tracks — including 80 in the Netzah Yehuda Battalion, 54 in the Hashmonaim Brigade, 22 in the Paratroopers’ Hetz Company, 13 in Givati’s Tomer Company, five in the air force, and 24 in the Border Police. Another 42 recruits joined combat-support tracks.
The IDF says the frameworks allow ultra-Orthodox soldiers to perform meaningful service while fully maintaining their way of life, and that recruitment figures are expected to rise in the coming weeks as additional induction days are held.
Houthis claim to attack ship in northern Red Sea over alleged connection to Israel
Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis say that they have attacked a ship in the northern Red Sea with two drones and a missile because of its alleged connection to Israel.
The group does not say when the attack happened. There is no immediate confirmation of the attack from maritime sources.
“The Yemeni armed forces carried out a joint military operation targeting the ship … for violating the [Houthis] decision to ban entry to the ports of occupied Palestine,” the group’s spokesperson says.
The Houthis on Sunday claimed to have attacked the Israeli-owned tanker Scarlet Ray near Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea port city of Yanbu in a rare attack off the Saudi coast.
Israel last Thursday killed the prime minister of Yemen’s Houthi-run government and several other ministers in a strike on the capital Sanaa, the first such attack to kill senior officials.
IDF chief tells reservists ‘Gaza maneuver has begun’; Israel won’t stop fighting until Hamas completely defeated
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir speaks to reservists reporting for duty at Nachshonim base, after having been called up in preparation for the military's conquest of Gaza City, September 2, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir told reservists reporting for duty earlier today that the IDF will not accept anything less than the complete defeat of Hamas.
“We will not stop the war until we defeat this enemy,” Zamir said, emphasizing that the ongoing operations in the war-torn Gaza Strip will be intensified and expanded.
Zamir visited the Nachshonim base alongside the commander of the 99th Division, Brig. Gen. Yoav Brunner, and the commander of the 11th Brigade.
During his visit, Zamir spoke with the newly mobilized reservists and personnel from the Technological and Logistics Directorate responsible for their reception, expressing his appreciation for their service.
In his remarks, Zamir highlighted the IDF’s broad operations against Hamas and other hostile actors across the Middle East since October 7.
“We are striking them, dismantling them, defeating them, and we are prevailing over them. We are operating across the entire Middle East,” he said, adding, “Hamas will have no place to hide from us. Wherever we locate them, whether they are senior or junior figures – we strike them all, all the time.”
Zamir also underscored the ongoing ground operation in Gaza, where the IDF is preparing to capture Gaza City, noting that Israeli forces are entering areas they have not operated in before.
“We have already begun the Gaza maneuver,” he said. “We are already entering places we have never entered before and operating there with courage, strength, valor, and an extraordinary spirit,” he said.
Concluding his address, Zamir praised the reservists’ turnout and called on them to rise to the challenge, extending gratitude on behalf of the IDF and all Israeli civilians.
Today marks the first phase of a wider draft for the planned conquest of Gaza City, with tens of thousands of reservists called up. Hebrew media reported that compared to previous call-ups, more reservists are reluctant to report for duty this time around due to personal or financial reasons.
IDF urges all Gazan civilians to head to al-Mawasi humanitarian area ahead of planned offensive
The IDF’s Arabic-language spokesperson Avichay Adraee urges all of Gaza’s residents to evacuate to the Mawasi coastal area in preparation for the expansion of fighting in the northern city.
In a post on X, Adraee says that the coastal al-Mawasi area will see improved humanitarian services, including healthcare, water, and food.
He also warns that approaching or returning to combat zones or areas where IDF forces are operating endangers the lives of civilians.
Recent reports estimate that only some 10,000 of Gaza City’s roughly one million residents have evacuated to the south in the three weeks since Israel announced it would empty the city of its civilian population.
#عاجل ‼️ إلى جميع سكان قطاع غزة، تمهيدًا لتوسيع القتال إلى داخل مدينة غزة نذكركم ان منطقة المواصي ستشهد تقديم خدمات إنسانية أفضل خاصة ما يتعلق بالخدمات الصحية والمياه والغذاء
⭕️من أجل سلامتكم نحذر ان الاقتراب أو العودة إلى مناطق القتال أو إلى المناطق التي تعمل فيها قوات جيش… pic.twitter.com/0bBf36xl0M
— افيخاي ادرعي (@AvichayAdraee) September 2, 2025
The IDF is reportedly expected to launch a major operation to take over Gaza City in mid-September.
Israel’s national basketball team advances to EuroBasket knockout round for first time since 2015
Israel's players celebrate after beating France at the Spodek Arena in Katowice, Poland on August 31, 2025. (Sergei GAPON / AFP)
Israel’s national basketball team has clinched a spot in the 16-team EuroBasket tournament with a 92-89 win over Belgium in Katowice, Poland.
The berth marks the first time in over a decade that Israel has advanced past the group stage in the quadrennial tournament of Europe’s best hoopsters.
Anchored by trailblazer Deni Avdija, Israel has been carried through the group stage by convincingly shellacking Iceland and even powerhouse France over the last week. Its only loss, a 66-64 squeaker, came against Poland on August 30.
Avdija’s 22-point performance led the charge against Belgium, joined by center Roman Sorkin’s 18 points, with Israel dominating for much of the game. Belgium managed to shrink the lead to 90-87 with eight seconds to go before Israel closed out the win at the charity stripe.
“I felt good, I had the touches in the places I wanted. My teammates found me, and I’m happy I made the shots to create the lead and bring the energy for our team,” Sorkin says.
The team finishes out the group stage on Thursday against Slovenia before moving to Riga, Latvia, for the final tournament, slated to begin Saturday. Other teams to qualify so far include Germany, Turkey and Serbia, who have all gone undefeated.
Israel last made the tournament in 2015, but was swiftly sent packing with a 30-point first-round loss to Italy.
Some 200 Israeli intel personnel said to have taken part in preparations for last week’s strike on Houthi leadership
The IDF’s precision airstrike on senior Houthi officials in Sanaa, Yemen, last week followed weeks of intelligence gathering and operational preparation, Kan public broadcaster reports.
According to Israeli security sources cited by Kan, the operation targeted a secretive security meeting involving top Houthi government and military leaders, identified by the Intelligence Directorate’s Research Division.
Kan reports that around 200 intelligence personnel — including members of units 8200, 9900, and 504 — gathered in a classified bunker in central Israel to collect detailed intelligence on the Iran-backed terror group. Representatives from the US Central Command were also reportedly involved.
Ahead of the strike, Israeli intelligence determined the exact timing and location of the meeting. Several potential sites were considered, and once a villa in a residential neighborhood of Sanaa was confirmed, plans were quickly approved by IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir and cleared at the political level, the report says.
According to Kan, the presence of senior Israeli military and political officials overseeing the operation ensured that it complied with international law.
The strike was reportedly carried out using Israeli Air Force fighter jets. Current estimates place more than 20 senior Houthi officials inside the targeted villa, alongside aides, drivers, and security personnel.
Israeli authorities note that the Houthis deliberately held the meeting in a residential villa rather than an official government building, suggesting an attempt to conceal their movements.
Houthi leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi, who has remained in hiding for years, was not among the senior officials killed. In a televised speech on the Houthis’ Al-Masirah TV on Sunday following Israel’s attack, he vowed to continue “targeting Israel with missiles and drones” and to escalate these attacks, asserting that recent Israeli strikes on rebel-held areas of Yemen would not weaken the group or discourage its fighters.
Kan reports that al-Houthi remains a key IDF target for elimination due to his symbolic and operational significance, and that further operations are planned to deter ongoing missile and drone attacks from Yemen toward Israel.
Man shot dead in Nazareth, paramedics find his body in his car
A man in his 30s was shot dead in Nazareth, say paramedics, after finding the victim in his car.
Medics found the man’s body riddled with bullet wounds. They were forced to pronounce him dead on the spot, Magen David Adom says.
Earlier this evening, another man was critically wounded in a shooting in Lod, near the home of a prominent crime family in the mixed Jewish-Arab city. Medics took the victim to a nearby hospital, where he is being treated for life-threatening injuries.
Man critically injured in shooting in Lod; police searching for suspects
Paramedics transport a critically injured man to the hospital after he was shot in Lod on September 2, 2025. (Magen David Adom)
A man in his 50s is critically injured after being shot in Lod, police and paramedics say.
Magen David Adom medics are attempting to resuscitate the unconscious victim as they take him to a nearby hospital.
Police say the shooting took place on a road near the property of a crime family in the mixed city.
Officers arrived at the scene of the shooting in the city’s Neve Yarak neighborhood and launched an investigation. They are currently searching for suspects.
Path for Iran-US negotiations not closed, Iran’s Supreme Security Council says
The path for negotiation between Iran and the United States is not closed, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, Ali Larijani, says in a post on X.
“We indeed pursue rational negotiations. By raising unrealisable issues such as missile restrictions, they set a path that negates any talks,” Larijani adds.
Reports: PM weighing applying sovereignty over parts of West Bank in response to international recognition of Palestinian state
This handout photo shows Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressing an event celebrating the legalization of West Bank settlement outposts, on August 26, 2025. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will gather top ministers and aides for a discussion on the implications of international recognition of a Palestinian state on Thursday, according to Hebrew media reports.
The small forum will also examine a range of possible responses to the expected wave of Western recognition at the UN later this month, including applying sovereignty over parts of the West Bank.
Netanyahu will be joined by Defense Minister Israel Katz, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar, Justice Minister Yariv Levin, National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, according to the reports.
Gazan media reports 11 killed, including children, in drone strike on water distribution point
Media outlets in Gaza report that an IDF drone struck a water distribution point in al-Mawasi, in western Khan Younis.
According to reports, at least 11 people were killed, including seven children.
There is no immediate comment from the IDF.
Hundreds of IDF reservists say they won’t report for duty if called up for Gaza City takeover op
Israeli reserve soldiers hold a press conference in Tel Aviv to announce that they will not be reporting for duty during an IDF operation to take over Gaza City, on September 2, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
A group of hundreds of reservists opposed to the IDF’s plans to take over Gaza City have announced they will no longer report for duty if called up to fight in the ongoing war against Hamas.
“We are over 365, and counting, soldiers who served during the war and have declared that we will not report for duty when called again,” says Sgt. First Class (res.) Max Kresch at a Tel Aviv press conference. “We refuse to take part in Netanyahu’s illegal war, and we see it as a patriotic duty to refuse and demand accountability from our leaders.”
Kresch, a combat medic, says that the group of reservists and soldiers are the same people who rushed to the frontline on October 7 to protect Israel.
“It is precisely from that same sense of duty that we are driven to refuse,” he declares.
Sgt. First Class Dor Menachem says the order to occupy Gaza City “endangers the hostages and soldiers themselves,” claiming the entire military establishment expressed a “determined stance against” such a move. “There is no logic to this step,” he adds.
Cpt. (res.) Ron Feiner, who served 270 days in reserve duty over the war, calls the decision made earlier this month to take over Gaza City — which many view as the first step to occupying the entire Strip — a “patently illegal order.”
“The decision to occupy Gaza will always be at the risk of the hostages, soldiers and citizens. It was given by a messianic government with no public legitimacy, that is only interested in its own political survival,” he says.
He notes the many hostage families who have spoken against expanding the war, out of worry that military pressure puts their loved ones at heightened risk.
“For messianic ideas such as this, we will not report for duty. Here and now we are saying ‘enough,'” he continues.
Senior Palestinian official: Efforts underway to enable Abbas to attend UN summit in New York
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly, September 26, 2024, at the UN headquarters in New York. (AP/Frank Franklin II)
A senior Palestinian official close to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas tells The Times of Israel that the PA is doing everything it can through various channels to persuade the Americans to lift visa restrictions on Abbas and other senior Palestinian officials so they can attend the high-level UN summit scheduled to open later this month. He emphasizes that Arab states, including Gulf countries, are working to assist the PA on this matter.
The official, who wishes to remain anonymous, adds that the US move is “complicating matters, and we do not want things to become more complicated.”
“We want this to proceed in accordance with international law and the agreement between the UN and the United States,” the official says, referring to Washington’s obligation under its UN host country agreement to allow leaders to travel to New York for the General Assembly.
“We are determined that the voice of the Palestinian people will be heard, and that the Palestinian president’s speech will be delivered at the UN by any means possible,” he says. He adds that a remote address by Abbas is one of the options being considered.
Spanish travel company eDreams blocks accommodation listings in West Bank settlements
Spanish travel company eDreams has withdrawn and will continue to block listings of accommodation in Israeli settlements in the West Bank, its chief financial officer says.
David Elizaga tells Reuters the company has always had a policy of not offering services in the Israeli settlements, but says some listings automatically appeared on its website after owners uploaded them on platforms.
The issue came to the fore at an Annual General Meeting in July that attracted pro-Palestinian protests against the company after it was the only Spanish firm named on the United Nations High Commissioner of Human Rights’ list, published in 2023.
Elizaga says the company activated location screenings to filter out apartments and hotels offered in the settlements.
In addition to its contact with the United Nations, eDreams has been in touch with NGOs and local organizations to ensure it does not again appear in lists of companies that provide “services and utilities supporting the maintenance and existence of settlements.”
“The United Nations works at the speed at which it works with the resources they have,” Elizaga says, adding that in the next edition of the report, they should not be included.
The United Nations High Commissioner of Human Rights Office says an update of the report will be made public a few days before it is officially presented on September 29.
Earlier on Tuesday, eDreams reported it had delivered a net profit of 13.6 million euros ($15.92 million) for the April to June period, the first quarter of its accounting year, from a net loss of 1.2 million euros in the same period last year.
Erdogan demands US walk back ban on Palestinian Authority officials entering country
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan says the United States should urgently revise its decision to revoke the visas of Palestinian officials and bar them from attending a gathering of world leaders at the United Nations this month in New York.
Washington said last week it would not allow Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and others to travel to New York, where several US allies are set to recognize Palestine as a state.
The move “does not fit the United Nations’ raison d’etre,” Erdogan tells reporters on a flight home from China, according to a readout from his office. “The decision needs to be urgently revised. The United Nations General Assembly exists for the issues of the world to be discussed and for solutions to be found.”
“The Palestinian delegation not being at the General Assembly would only please Israel,” he adds. “What is expected from the United States is to say ‘stop’ to Israel’s massacres, cruelty.”
The State Department justified its decision on barring Abbas and others by reiterating longstanding US and Israeli allegations that the Palestinian Authority and the umbrella Palestine Liberation Organization had failed to repudiate extremism while pushing for “unilateral recognition” of a Palestinian state.
The General Assembly opens on September 9, but leaders are set to meet in New York later in the month amid growing criticism over Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza.
Qatar: Israel’s Gaza City op will cost hundreds of Gazan civilian lives, endanger hostages
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) speaks during a ceremony at the eve of Memorial Day at the Yad LaBanim Memorial in Jerusalem, on April 29, 2025. Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesperson Majed al-Ansari speaks on a panel at the Doha Forum in the Doha Sheraton Hotel in Doha, Qatar, on December 11, 2023. (Abir SULTAN / POOL / AFP; Noushad Thekkayil/Nur Photo via Reuters)
Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesman Majed al-Ansari warns that Israel’s plan to seize Gaza City endangers everyone, including the hostages.
Speaking at a press conference, al-Ansari says, “The dangerous step Israel is taking, invading Gaza City, given the dense population and the worsening humanitarian situation, will cause the deaths of hundreds of civilians.”
It will “endanger everybody, including the hostages,” he adds.
Al-Ansari also addresses the deadlock in negotiations on a hostage-ceasefire deal, adding: “All the efforts to get the negotiations moving have run into a lack of cooperation from Israel. So far, there has been no answer from Israel [to the latest proposal]. And to get to an agreement of one kind or another, there must be readiness from Israel for an agreement.”
In a just-published interview with The Times of Israel from Doha, al-Ansari similarly warned: “The occupation of Gaza City, which will have catastrophic humanitarian results, is not going to push any side toward a deal… We told the Israelis that they are putting their hostages, their people, at risk without having a strategic view of what they want to do.”
Related: After US cools on phased Gaza deal, senior Qatari official laments ‘moving goalposts’
Far-right minister calls for reevaluating IDF chief if he proves to be ‘weak on Gaza’
Heritage Minister Amichay Eliyahu calls for a reevaluation of IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir’s tenure, following reported clashes between Zamir and members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet earlier this week.
Speaking with national broadcaster Kan, the far-right minister says that if Zamir does not know how to lead Israel to victory in Gaza he should step aside, comparing him to “generals in World War II who wanted to sign a peace treaty with Hitler and weakened the people’s belief in victory.”
It is unclear who Eliyahu was referring to. Though there were politicians in Western nations who sought peace with the Nazis, there is no well-known case of generals in Allied countries who did so.
“The chief of staff is wrong and misleading [the cabinet]. If he is brave against Iran and the Houthis but weak against Gaza, we need to reconsider his future,” Eliyahu says.
He also expressed support for applying martial law in Gaza as well as Israeli sovereignty.
Eliyahu’s comments come after Zamir sparred with ministers over strategy in Gaza. According to an unconfirmed TV report, during Sunday’s cabinet meeting Zamir expressed support for a phased hostage deal with Hamas. This prompted pushback from Settlements and National Projects Minister Orit Strock, who accused him of cowardice by citing the Biblical verse “Is there anyone afraid and disheartened? Let him go back to his home, lest the courage of his comrades flag like his.”
The Channel 13 report said Zamir upbraided Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other assembled lawmakers, accusing them of only now deciding to seriously tackle the Hamas terror group as justification to widen the military campaign and avoid a possible hostage release deal.
The senior officer warned that the plan to conquer Gaza City will drag Israel into a full-fledged occupation of the Strip, calling on the ministers to “understand the implications” of their actions, Ynet reported.
According Channel 12, Netanyahu accused Zamir of attacking him in off-record briefings to reporters and also hit out at Zamir over several other issues, including for saying Israel should accept the hostage deal currently on offer.
Education official tells Jerusalem students that protests for hostages ‘harm national unity’
Students protest outside their school in Jerusalem calling for the release of hostages held in Gaza, September 1, 2025 (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
With the opening of the school year, a top education official has pressed students not to hold protest events demanding a deal to return hostages in Gaza, claiming this would “harm national unity.”
Carmit Harush, director of the Jerusalem District in the Education Ministry, said in a letter to student councils in the district that their efforts would be better spent “following a path of supporting the state, strengthening IDF soldiers, boosting national morale and engaging in positive advocacy.”
“A path of protest,” Harush argued, “mainly harms national unity.”
Harush suggested that students “hold dialogue circles in order to plan positive and constructive activities that will allow us to create joint positive influence in favor of the hostages’ return and the war’s conclusion with victory.”
In a statement to Haaretz, the ministry said, “The letter was intended to anchor the discourse around the hostages and to emphasize the importance of making the yearning for their return a values-based discussion and social action within educational frameworks.”
Defense developers handed 2025 Israel Security Prize for key tech in ongoing war
The 2025 Israel Security Prize event, September 2, 2025 (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
Teams from the Defense Ministry, IDF, Mossad, Shin Bet and Israel’s defense industries were presented earlier today with the 2025 Israel Security Prize for groundbreaking technological projects that played a key role in the ongoing war.
The ceremony was attended by President Isaac Herzog, Defense Minister Israel Katz, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir and Defense Ministry Director General Amir Baram.
Notable recipients include the developers of the “Eitan” armored personnel carrier, which enabled safe troop maneuvering and hostage rescues in Gaza; the “Shavit,” “Eitam” and “Oron” mission aircraft, providing advanced intelligence and operational capabilities; and the joint Mossad-IDF-Rafael-Elbit team responsible for unique technologies that led to the elimination of former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in September 2024.
Herzog praised the teams, saying, “This war places the importance of our security concept at the forefront: to act relentlessly to achieve a qualitative advantage over our enemies. You, who are sitting here today, have an enormous part in that superiority, and on behalf of the entire nation, I salute you and thank you for it.”
Katz highlighted the broader national impact: “The true winners are not only you. The true winners are the citizens of Israel, who enjoy advanced and powerful security responses to our diverse challenges.”
The award, named for the commander of Israel’s pre-state Hagana militia Eliyahu Golomb, is presented each year to people and projects deemed to have made a significant contribution to the country’s security.
Herzog: Israel must think ‘deeply and courageously’ about post-Hamas Gaza
President Isaac Herzog speaks during a public event on September 2, 2025 (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
Israel must think “deeply, practically, and no less importantly, courageously” about the post-Hamas future of Gaza, says President Isaac Herzog.
“There is no doubt that in this campaign, courageous and important security decisions were made by the political leadership — which bears the authority and whose decisions are carried out by the executive echelon,” he says in a speech at the Israel Defense Prize ceremony in Jerusalem.
“Now we are required to think deeply, practically, and no less importantly, courageously — regarding the day after, and the political course that must complement the military campaign.”
Air Force intercepts UAV launched from Yemen
The IDF says that the Israeli Air Force intercepted an unmanned aerial vehicle launched from Yemen a short while ago, before it entered Israeli territory.
No alerts were activated, in accordance with IDF policy.
Tens of thousands of reservists set to be drafted today, but turnout down
IDF soldiers seen operating near the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip, September 1, 2025. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)
Tens of thousands of reservists are set to be drafted today, in the largest call-up since the start of the war in Gaza in October 2023, Kan and Channel 12 report.
Kan says the call-up, the first phase of a wider draft for the planned conquest of Gaza City, is facing challenges as fewer reservists are inclined to report for duty after nearly two years of war and repeat rounds of service.
According to Hebrew media outlets, many reservists have requested exemptions for personal or financial reasons, and units are seeing lower turnout than in previous emergency call-ups. Senior officers note that even within regular battalions, company and platoon sizes have shrunk, while a significant portion of the reservists reporting are volunteers who are not organically part of the units.
The reservists are set to undergo training and preparation in the coming days, with some slated to replace regular forces stationed in Israel’s north and the West Bank. The IDF plans to eventually deploy four divisions into Gaza City.
The new military campaign in Gaza was initially estimated to last four to five months, though officials reportedly say civilian evacuations and the operational buildup are already taking longer than anticipated.
Despite senior sources claiming operational control over some 40% of Gaza City, IDF officials tell Channel 12 that this assessment is “disconnected from reality,” with many commanders remaining skeptical about the feasibility of achieving the operation’s ultimate objectives of securing the release of the 48 hostages and dismantling the remaining Hamas strongholds in the area.
President Herzog to meet Pope Leo XIV in the Vatican
Pope Leo XIV gestures during his weekly audience at the Paul VI hall in the Vatican on August 20, 2025. (Photo by Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP)
President Isaac Herzog will fly to the Vatican on Thursday to meet Pope Leo XIV, the President’s Residence announces.
The one-day trip, initiated by the Holy See, will focus on the effort to bring back the hostages from Gaza, the struggle against antisemitism around the world, and protecting Christian communities in the Middle East, according to Herzog’s office.
He will also meet Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin and visit the Vatican Library.
Herzog attended Leo’s inauguration in May.
1,000 operatives, overseen by slain Abu Obeida: Report details Hamas’s propaganda network deployed throughout Gaza
Abu Obeida (R), spokesman for the armed wing of Hamas, the Izz-ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, delivers a statement in Gaza City late on July 8, 2015. (Mohammed ABED / AFP)
Army Radio has reported on Hamas’s propaganda and psychological warfare arm, which was led by the group’s military spokesperson, Abu Obeida, until his elimination in a weekend strike.
The report says Hamas’s influence network currently includes over 1,000 operatives (with around 200 more killed in the war). It says Abu Obeida built it up over the past decade, with operatives embedded in Hamas combat units throughout the Strip, filming, editing and distributing propaganda material on combat operations.
It says the network adapts constantly, relocating command centers to schools and hospitals when targeted by Israeli strikes.
It includes “intelligence listeners” who monitor Israeli media and public discourse to suggest psychological warfare operations.
Army Radio says the network has played a central role in the propaganda campaign surrounding the hostages in Gaza and the distribution of videos featuring captives.
It says Abu Obeida recently drafted plans for efforts to prevent Israeli forces’ advance into Gaza City, through manipulation of Israeli public perception.
IDF forces arrest Hebron’s mayor, Palestinian media says
Palestinian media reports that IDF forces arrested Hebron Mayor Tayseer Abu Sneineh this morning.
The IDF has not yet responded.
Palestinian reports: Early this morning, IDF forces arrested the mayor of Hebron, Tayseer Abu Sneineh, and raided his home. pic.twitter.com/v07omSsvcj
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Abu Sneineh has served as mayor since 2017. In the 1980s, he took part in the Hebron Beit Hadassah terror attack in which six people were killed, as part of a Fatah terror cell. He was imprisoned in Israel and released three years later in a prisoner exchange deal.
IDF details terror operatives killed in recent Gaza operations
The IDF says forces in the Gaza Strip killed dozens of terror operatives in the past month who had been planning attacks against IDF forces in the northern and central Gaza Strip.
These included Ahmad Abu Daf, who was serving as a deputy company commander in the Zeitoun Battalion, and who in this role planned, directed, and carried out dozens of attacks and ambushes against IDF forces, in addition to recruiting new operatives into the Hamas terror organization.
Another key operative killed was Taleb Sidqi Taleb Abu Atiwi, a team commander in Hamas’s Nukhba force who infiltrated Israeli territory on October 7, 2023, the army said.
The military also says the Air Force struck and destroyed buildings in Shejaiya and Zeitoun in northern Gaza that were used as meeting places for Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad gunmen to plan attacks.
Security forces confirm shooting terror suspect during northern West Bank raid
The IDF, Shin Bet, and Israel Police confirm that forces carried out an operation last night in the Tamun area in the northern West Bank, near Tubas, attempting to arrest a suspect who they say was involved in terror activity.
According to the joint statement, the suspect attempted to flee, and Yamam counter-terrorism troops opened fire at him, reporting a hit.
Palestinian media outlets reported last night that Israeli forces had shot and killed a Palestinian man in the northern West Bank.
Search for survivors ongoing after Afghan earthquake kills 800
Afghans walk past damaged houses, after earthquakes at Mazar Dara village in Nurgal district, Kunar province, in Eastern Afghanistan, on September 1, 2025 (Wakil Kohsar / AFP)
Rescuers desperately search for survivors in the rubble of homes flattened by an earthquake that struck eastern Afghanistan, killing more than 800 people.
The 6.0-magnitude earthquake, followed by at least five aftershocks, hit remote areas in mountainous provinces near the border with Pakistan around midnight Sunday.
The head of the Kunar Provincial Disaster Management Authority, Ehsanullah Ehsan, tells AFP that “operations continued throughout the night.”
He adds that there are “still injured people left in the distant villages” in need of evacuation to hospitals.
Villagers joined the rescue efforts, using their bare hands to clear debris of simple mud and stone homes built into steep valleys. The dead, some of them children, were wrapped in white shrouds by villagers who prayed over their bodies before burying them.
Some of the hardest-hit villages remain inaccessible due to blocked roads, the UN migration agency says.
Man dies after being hit by car near Haifa
A pedestrian has been hit by a car and killed near Haifa this morning.
The accident occurred on Route 75 outside Kiryat Tivon.
The victim was a 63-year-old man. The cause of the accident is not immediately clear.
UN chief calls to ‘resolve issues regarding Iran’s nuclear program through diplomacy’ as he meets its president
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres met in China with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, the former’s office says.
“The secretary-general and the president discussed regional issues of mutual interest,” says a statement from Guterres’ office. “The secretary-general welcomed the upholding of the ceasefire between Iran and Israel and stressed the need to resolve issues regarding Iran’s nuclear program through diplomacy.”
Jerry Nadler tells NYT he won’t seek reelection to US Congress next year
US Representative Jerry Nadler, a New York Democrat, speaks to members of media outside Greater New York Federal Building in New York, on May 28, 2025. (Yuki Iwamura/AP)
US Representative Jerry Nadler, a Jewish Democrat from Manhattan who played a major role in both impeachments of President Donald Trump, will not seek reelection in 2026 after holding his seat for 34 years, the New York Times reports Monday, citing an interview with Nadler.
His office doesn’t immediately respond to a Reuters request to confirm the report.
Nadler, 78, a liberal voice in Congress since 1992, said he believed it was time for a younger generation of Democrats to emerge.
Questions surrounding leadership age and generational change rocked the Democrats in 2024, when president Joe Biden, then 81, stepped down late in the American presidential campaign amid concerns about his age.
“Watching the Biden thing really said something about the necessity for generational change in the party, and I think I want to respect that,” Nadler tells the Times.
A 26-year-old, Liam Elkind, had already announced his intention to challenge Nadler in next year’s primary. Nadler’s withdrawal could attract other contenders.
Belgium to recognize Palestinian state at UN General Assembly, joining France and others
Belgium's Foreign Minister Maxime Prevot speaks with the media as he arrives for a meeting of EU foreign ministers at the European Council building in Brussels, February 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
BRUSSELS — Belgium will recognize the state of Palestine at the United Nations General Assembly in September, Belgian Foreign Minister Maxime Prevot announces.
“Palestine will be recognized by Belgium at the UN session! And firm sanctions are being imposed against the Israeli government,” Prevot writes on X.
In July, French President Emmanuel Macron said France would recognize a Palestinian state at the UN meeting, due to be held from September 9 to 23 in New York. More than a dozen other Western countries have since called on others to do the same.
Prevot says the decision came “in view of the humanitarian tragedy” unfolding in Gaza.
“In the face of the violence perpetrated by Israel in violation of international law, given its international obligations, including the duty to prevent any risk of genocide, Belgium had to take strong decisions to increase pressure on the Israeli government and Hamas terrorists,” Prevot writes.
“This is not about punishing the Israeli people, but rather about ensuring that its government respects international and humanitarian law and taking action to try to change the situation on the ground,” he adds.
At the same time, Prevot says, “Aware of the trauma that the Israeli people have suffered from the terrorist attacks by Hamas on October 7, 2023, the administrative formalization of that recognition will take place via a royal decree” only “when the last hostage has been released and Hamas no longer exercises any form of governance over Palestine.”
Member of genocide association says group’s leadership pushed through Israel condemnation without discussion
Sara Brown (courtesy)
A member of the International Association for Genocide Scholars says the group pushed through a resolution accusing Israel of genocide without holding a debate, as is its standard practice.
Sara Brown, a genocide scholar, says she has been a member of the association for more than 10 years and was on the association’s advisory board for two, four-year terms. Brown also serves as the American Jewish Committee’s regional director in San Diego.
She says the association typically discusses controversial resolutions in a virtual town hall that allows members to discuss the measures. For the Israel resolution, the association’s leadership declined to hold a discussion, she says.
“The content of the resolution and the way it was forced through speak to an embarrassing absence of professionalism,” she says. Among her qualms with the resolution are that it cites organizations that have reinterpreted the definition of genocide so that it applies to Israel, such as Amnesty International.
Emails shared with The Times of Israel show that the association’s leadership in late July said there would be a town hall discussion to discuss the Israel resolution, but backtracked days later, citing a vote by the association’s executive board.
The association also did not allow dissenting opinions to be published on its list serve, saying the list serve was not a forum for such discussions, and declined to release the names of the members who drafted the resolution, the emails show.
Brown says only 129 association members voted on the resolution out of an estimated membership of around 500. The association’s membership was informed ahead of time about the vote, but many chose not to weigh in, likely because they did not feel qualified to address the issue, Brown says.
“That favors those activists who are seeking to advance a false narrative about Israel,” Brown says. “It wasn’t rushed, it was just forced through without the usual transparency.”
The association has recently expanded its membership and there are little qualifications to become a member. The association had been mostly made up of scholars, but now includes figures like activists and artists, Brown says.
She adds that the expanded membership can be a strength by bringing in a diversity of viewpoints, but also “opens the door for something like this to happen.”
“The appearance is that this was a unanimous vote on behalf of the entirety of the association. It was not, and they refused to have a transparent, critical discussion,” Brown says. “The leadership, in my opinion, had an agenda.”
The public, she says, is “going to see, ‘Genocide experts agree.’ No, we don’t, and we were deliberately silenced.”
UN nuclear watchdog finds uranium traces at Syrian reactor that Israel bombed in 2007
Before and after satellite images of the Syrian nuclear reactor at al-Kibar, which was reportedly struck by Israel in 2007.(AP/DigitalGlobe)
The UN nuclear watchdog has found traces of uranium in Syria in its investigation into a building Israel destroyed in 2007 that the agency has long believed was probably an undeclared nuclear reactor, it says in a report to member states.
The government of now-deposed Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad said the Deir Ezzor site that included the building was a conventional military base.
The International Atomic Energy Agency concluded in 2011 the building was “very likely” to have been a reactor built in secret that Damascus should have declared to it.
The agency has been trying since then to come to a definitive conclusion, and under a renewed push last year it was able to take environmental samples at three unnamed locations “that were allegedly functionally related” to Deir Ezzor, it says in the confidential report seen by Reuters.
The agency found “a significant number of natural uranium particles in samples taken at one of the three locations. The analysis of these particles indicated that the uranium is of anthropogenic origin, ie that it was produced as a result of chemical processing,” the report says.
The term “natural” indicates the uranium was not enriched. The report doesn’t come to a conclusion as to what the traces found mean.
“The current Syrian authorities indicated that they had no information that might explain the presence of such uranium particles,” the report says, adding that the Islamist-led government had granted the IAEA access to the site concerned again in June this year to take more environmental samples.
The report says the IAEA is still planning to visit Deir Ezzor and will evaluate the results of the environmental samples taken at the other site.
“Once this process has been completed and the results evaluated, there will be an opportunity to clarify and resolve the outstanding safeguards issues related to Syria’s past nuclear activities and to bring the matter to a close,” it says.
Trump says ongoing war in Gaza is ‘hurting Israel’ in the court of public opinion
US President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting, August 26, 2025, at the White House in Washington. (AP/Mark Schiefelbein)
US President Donald Trump says Israel “may be winning the [Gaza] war, but they’re not winning the world of public relations.”
Trump’s comments in an interview with the Daily Caller echo ones he made several times last year during the presidential campaign, but he has not repeated the argument since returning to office in January.
He has recently began reiterating his belief that Israel needs to end the war quickly and tells the Daily Caller, “They’re gonna have to get that war over with… It is hurting Israel.”
But Trump also has indicated his support for Israel’s plan to take over Gaza City, asserting in recent weeks that Jerusalem must “finish the job” against Hamas and claiming that the terror group will only release the remaining hostages after it is destroyed. The IDF has reportedly determined that the Gaza City operation could take four or five months to complete after which Netanyahu has talked about a subsequent operation to conquer the refugee camps in the central Strip.
Trump is asked in the interview whether he is concerned about waning support for Israel in the US, including among Republicans: “I’m aware of it,” he responds.
He then pivots to highlight his “good support from Israel,” while touting the moves he has taken as president in defense of the Jewish state.
Trump notes that Israel had “the strongest lobby in Congress” 15 or 20 years ago, but no longer does.
“There was a time where… if you wanted to be a politician, you couldn’t speak badly [about Israel],” he says. “Israel was the strongest lobby I’ve ever seen.. They had total control over Congress,” Trump adds. Israel has “been hurt, especially in Congress.”
As he often does in soundbites regarding Israel, the US president then shifts to lament that “people forgot about October 7.”
Reports: Israeli forces kill Palestinian in northern West Bank
Palestinian media outlets report that Israeli forces carried out a raid in the northern West Bank and killed a Palestinian man.
According to the reports, an Israeli special forces unit entered the town of Tubas in the northern West Bank earlier this evening and shot dead a Palestinian while he was driving a vehicle. According to the reports, several others were also wounded.
There is no immediate response from the IDF.
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