Gaza: Three Palestinians, including boy, killed in latest Israeli ceasefire violation

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An Israel strike in the Jbeil district in Lebanon's north has killed at least two people, in the latest violation of the ceasefire agreed between Hezbollah and Israel.

The incident occurred after Israel struck a vehicle driving along the road linking Tibnin to Safad al-Batikh, Lebanese media said on Sunday, while the Israeli army claimed the two individuals were linked to Hezbollah.

The car had completely burned in the incident.

US embassy in Yemen said on Sunday it received reports of closures, cancellations and redirected flights on commercial airline travel to and from the Yemeni island of Socotra, warning US citizens again against all travel to Yemen.

Socotra, which is a remote island in Indian Ocean, is under the control of UAE backed Yemen's Southern Transitional Council, which has clashed with Yemen’s Saudi-backed government in the provinces of Hadramout and Al Mahra.

Israeli forces have raided several homes and attacked Palestinians in the West Bank on Sunday, including n Masafer Yatta and Al-Ram.

In the town near Jerusalem, force injured a Palestinian man near the separation wall with gunfire, in a similar incident to Saturday's.

The man had to be transferred to a local hospital for medical treatment.

In Masafer Yatta, Israeli forces briefly detained Palestinians in home raids and also seized a vehicle from local resident Ahmed al-Nawajaa.

Israeli military tanks were seen advancing southeast of Gaza's Al-Bureij camp, amid fears of an escalation of ceasefire violations, videos published on social media showed on Sunday.

Egypt and Qatar signed a memorandum of understanding to boost cooperation in LNG sales and imports, including terms for supplying Qatari shipments to Egypt's Ain Sokhna and Damietta ports, Egypt's petroleum ministry said on Sunday.

QatarEnergy said in a statement that the agreement includes supplying Cairo with up to 24 liquefied natural gas cargoes for the upcoming summer.

Egypt, the Arab world's most populous nation, has been trying to increase its own gas production and diversify import sources to meet its growing energy needs.

Production began declining in late 2022, putting pressure on its ambitions to become a regional supply hub, and forcing it to plan for significant imports from Israel and Cyprus, along with costly LNG cargoes.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel stood in solidarity with the people of Iran as protests rocked several cities in the Islamic republic this week.

"We stand in solidarity with the struggle of the Iranian people and with their aspirations for freedom, liberty and justice," Netanyahu said at the weekly cabinet meeting.

"It is very possible that we are standing at a moment when the Iranian people are taking their destiny into their own hands," he said, according to a statement issued by his office.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel supported the United States' "strong action" in Venezuela, one day after American forces captured its leader Nicolas Maduro in a military operation.

"Regarding Venezuela, I wish to express the support of the entire government for the resolute decision and strong action of the United States to restore freedom and justice to that region of the world," Netanyahu said at the opening of a cabinet meeting.

Israeli police shot and killed a Bedouin Arab man during an overnight raid in his village in southern Israel, according to media reports and a local official.

The shooting of 36-year-old Muhammed Hussein Tarabin threatened to worsen the already strained relations between the Israeli government and the country’s Bedouin minority.

Israeli police have been conducting a large-scale operation in the village of Tarabin for the past week in what they claim is a crackdown on local crime.

Talal Alkernawi, the mayor of the nearby town of Rahat, confirmed the man's death.

Israeli police said they opened fire on a man who had "endangered" forces during an arrest raid.

The Israeli news site Haaretz cited relatives as saying Tarabin, whose family name shares the name of the village, was in his home.

At least 80 troops from Yemen's secessionist Southern Transitional Council (STC) have been killed in fighting with Saudi-backed forces and strikes since Friday, a military official from the group told AFP on Sunday.

At least 152 members of the UAE-backed STC forces were wounded, 130 were taken captive, and the fates of 500 fighters were still unknown, the official added, following the start of the operation on Friday, which saw strikes by Saudi warplanes to retake territory seized by the secessionists.

Israeli settlers began fencing off land in the Palestinian town of Tuqu', south of Bethlehem, with the aim of seizing i, local sources told the Palestinian news agency Wafa.

The settlers stormed an are northeast of the town. and began fencing off a 15-dunum plot of land with barbed wire, Taysir Abu Mufarreh, the head of Tuqu's village council said.

The plot of land reportedly belongs to the Al-Asakra family, and is located a mere few metres from residential homes.

The death toll in the Gaza Strip since the start of Israel's war in October 2023 has risen to 71,386, medical sources told Palestinian media on Sunday.

Local health authorities reported today that three fatalities and 13 injured individuals arrived at hospitals in Gaza during the past 48 hours. 

A Palestinian man was injured on Saturday in the West Bank, following clashes between Palestinian residents and the Israeli army, as well as settlers in various areas of the occupied territory.

The official Voice of Palestine radio station said that a young man was injured after settlers attacked Palestinian homes in the town of Beita, south of Nablus, resulting in confrontations.

In a separate incident, also south of Nablus, a Palestinian home on the outskirts of the village of Burin was attacked with stones by settlers.

Similar clashes were reported in Ni'lin and al-Mazra'a al-Gharbiya, west and northwest of Ramallah.

Meanwhile, the army also raided the city of Tubas, the villages of Rummanah and Kafr Dan, west and northwest of Jenin, the town of Anabta, east of Tulkarem, and the villages of al-Mughayyir, Shabtin, and Jaljulia in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorates.

Sporadic protests broke out in the Iranian capital on Saturday evening, according to local media, which also reported intensified clashes in the west of the country.

The demonstrations first kicked off last Sunday when shopkeepers staged a strike over economic concerns, but have since spread in size and scope, with protesters making political demands.

The protests have affected, to varying degrees, at least 40 different cities, mostly medium-sized and located in the country's west, according to an AFP tally based on official announcements and media reports.

At least 12 people have been killed, including members of the security forces, according to a toll based on official reports.

Protests Saturday evening in Tehran were described as "limited" by the Fars news agency, which said they were "generally made up of groups of 50 to 200 young people".

Israel on Sunday began revoking the operating licenses of 37 international organisations that deliver humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, on the grounds that they "refused" to submit lists of their staff and cooperate with new security registration procedures.

The ban on aid organisations has fuelled serious concerns over the serious repercussions it will have on the Palestinians in the enclave, who are in dire need of humanitarian relief and other necessities following over two years of war.