The health of a 16-year-old Iranian girl who has been in coma since an alleged assault on the Tehran metro has "deteriorated" in hospital, local media reported Wednesday.
According to the state news agency IRNA, Armita Garawand fainted because of low blood pressure.
But a Kurdish-focused rights group has alleged that she was hurt in a clash with female police officers on the network, for allegedly violating Iran's strict dress code for women.
President Joe Biden urged Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday to follow the rules of war after the Israeli prime minister vowed to destroy Hamas following the Palestinian militants' brutal attack.
The 80-year-old president, who has dispatched a US aircraft carrier to the region in a show of support for Israel, also warned Hamas-backer Iran to "be careful."
Biden told a gathering of US Jewish community leaders at the White House that the attacks on Israel in which 1,200 people were killed was the "deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust."
Cyprus has received 160 foreign nationals airlifted to the island from Israel on a Portuguese military transport plane, with Austria also permitted to operate rescue flights, officials said Wednesday.
Portugal has undertaken three flights from Tel Aviv to Larnaca Airport with a C-130 military transport aircraft to carry their nationals trapped in Israel.
One flight landed Tuesday night, while another two were conducted on Wednesday, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Theodoros Gotsis told the Cyprus News Agency.
Confronted with the war raging between Israel and Hamas, Arab countries which have normalised relations with Israel in recent years have been forced to balance diplomacy with fiercly pro-Palestinian Arab public opinion.
But as analysts predict a long and violent response from Israel in Gaza, the position faced by those nations is expected to become increasingly troublesome.
In the wake of the Palestinian militants' surprise attack into southern Israel, the United Arab Emirates condemned the kidnapping of Israeli hostages in a break with other regional players.
A potential intervention by Tehran-backed Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah and uncertainty over the role played by Iran itself are risk factors that could push the unprecedented conflict between Israel and Hamas into a wider regional war, analysts say.
For now, there is no indication of an impending offensive by Hezbollah against Israel, despite growing border tensions.
Iran, officially at least, has insisted it has no involvement in the Palestinian militant group's assault on Israel.
Qatar has agreed to supply France's TotalEnergies with natural gas for 27 years, its state energy company announced on Wednesday.
Qatar will supply 3.5 million tonnes of gas a year under the deal, QatarEnergy said, following two agreements with Total last year for a share of the Gulf state's huge North Field gas expansion project.
Israel pounded Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip for the fifth straight day since the militants' audacious attack and the death toll spiralled into the thousands, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed the complete destruction of the militant group.
"Every Hamas member is a dead man," the veteran right-wing Israeli leader said, again likening them to the Islamic State group and promising: "We will crush them and destroy them as the world has destroyed Daesh."
Twin brothers Osher and Michael Vaknin organised rave parties across Israel, including the one close to the Gaza Strip, where a shock attack by Hamas fighters would leave one of them dead and the other missing.
Osher was buried in Jerusalem on Tuesday, while no signs of Michael have emerged since the weekend assault on the site by the Palestinian militants.
In the living room of their family home in Jerusalem, their loved ones were sitting shiva -- the Jewish seven-day mourning ritual, grieving for Osher while still hoping for a sign of life of Michael.
Lebanon's Hezbollah said it fired missiles on Israel Wednesday drawing retaliatory fire, after three members of the Iran-backed group were killed earlier this week amid soaring border tensions.
The latest exchange of fire came as Israel massed troops and heavy armour around Gaza in its retaliatory campaign against Hamas militants in a conflict that has left hundreds dead on both sides.
Abderrahman Balata and numerous other Gazans who had been working in Israel now find themselves stranded in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, an unfamiliar place far from their war-torn homes
In a one-star hotel room, Balata, 42, sat with other Palestinian workers watching non-stop news coverage of the fighting in Gaza. Their families are left behind under Israeli bombing, leaving the men feeling fear and impotence.
