Yemen's Iran-backed Huthi rebels said they fired a drone that caused an explosion in Tel Aviv early Friday that left one person dead, injured four and set off a new shock for Israel more than nine months into its war in Gaza.
The Israeli military said an initial investigation showed the blast was caused by "the falling of an aerial target" that did not set off alarms. It said air patrols had been stepped up.
The UN's top court, in a sweeping opinion on Friday, said that Israel's decades-long occupation of Palestinian territory was "illegal" and needed to end as soon as possible.
The advisory opinion by The Hague-based International Court of Justice was immediately slammed as a "decision of lies" by Israel, but welcomed by the Palestinian presidency, which called it "historic".
The poliovirus has been found in sewage samples from war-torn Gaza, the health ministries in the Hamas-run territory and Israel said Thursday.
The Gaza ministry said thousands of people living in crowded displaced persons' camps were now at risk of contracting the highly infectious disease that can cause deformities and paralysis.
UN agencies have been campaigning for four decades to eradicate polio, most often spread through sewage and contaminated water, but there has been a resurgence in recent years in Afghanistan and Pakistan and some isolated cases in Nigeria.
Said Khatib, a Palestinian photojournalist working for AFP, was awarded Spain's prestigious Mingote Prize on Thursday at a ceremony attended by King Felipe VI for a Gaza photograph taken in October 2023.
He was presented with the award by ABC newspaper, which runs Spain's vaunted journalism prize, for a picture of two children looking through the window of a car driving past rubble in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
Hundreds of Argentines gathered in Buenos Aires Thursday to demand justice for the attack on a Jewish community center that killed 85 people 30 years ago to the day.
Loved ones of victims held up photographs of the fallen and placed candles and roses at the site where a truck laden with explosives drove into the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) and detonated on July 18, 1994.
The deadliest attack in the South American country's history injured more than 300 people.
Argentina has the largest Jewish community in Latin America, with some 300,000 members.
The Israeli parliament voted Thursday to oppose a Palestinian state as an "existential threat", a day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told lawmakers the army had Hamas "by the throat".
The vote, which drew swift criticism from the Palestinian leadership and the international community, is largely symbolic but laid down a marker ahead of a planned address by Netanyahu to the US Congress next Wednesday.
Polio has been detected in samples of sewage that is starting to take over Gaza in the grip of a devastating war, health authorities in the Hamas-run territory and Israel said Thursday.
The announcement came after a European activist group released a report saying the Gaza Strip is "drowning" in hundreds of thousands of tonnes of human waste and rubble from the Israel-Hamas war.
The Gaza ministry said thousands of people in crowded tent cities of war-displaced were now at risk of contracting the highly infectious disease, which can cause deformities and paralysis.
Israeli strikes on Thursday killed at least five people, including the commander of a Hamas-allied group in Lebanon, militant groups and a security source said.
Since Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel sparked war in Gaza, Israel has repeatedly targeted militants of Jamaa Islamiya, whose armed wing has launched attacks on Israel from southern Lebanon over the past nine months.
A Lebanese security source said that an Israeli strike on a house near the southern village of Jmaijmeh killed three people and wounded several more.
When Shaheen Jarkas fled Syria's war for Lebanon, he hoped his family would be safe. Instead, a strike blamed on Israel killed his two young children, the latest casualties of months of cross-border violence.
"Like every day... the children were spending their day playing," said Jarkas, 55, a farm worker originally from north Syria's Afrin area but now living in the southern border village of Umm Toot.
"I heard the sound of a strike" and ran towards it, he said.
Jarkas said he found his children, Jean, 10, and Mohammed, seven, "drowning in blood".
A Saudi dissident seeking asylum in Bulgaria said Wednesday he had begun an indefinite hunger strike to secure his release from detention.
"I began an open-ended hunger strike on July 5 in protest of the Bulgarian authorities' violation of my human rights, European laws, and international treaties," Abd al-Rahman al-Khalidi told AFP.
He was speaking by phone from the detention centre in Sofia where he has been held for nearly three years.
He called on Bulgarian authorities to "immediately and unconditionally release" him.
