Arab Israeli Conflict

The PA leadership claimed that the agreement was reached thanks to efforts made by Majed Faraj, head of the Palestinian General Intelligence Service.

The indictment was filed following a combined interrogation by the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) and the Police.

Giving Palestinian-Americans domiciled in the territories an Israel-transit option "is a demand by the Americans going back many years," Israeli Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked said.

Border Police evacuated a number of huts and tents with families on the Homesh hilltop where the family of terror victim Yehuda Dimentman lives.

Lapid made the remarks days after Defense Minister Benny Gantz met with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

Violence has also been high in Burka, which clashes breaking out between the army and Palestinians there when the IDF closed down the village in the aftermath of the Dimentman killing.

Hamas has used the excuse of lightning strikes causing rockets to be launched toward Israel before, including in November 2020.

Any hope that the PA would reciprocate Israel's goodwill measures with some goodwill measures of its own was dashed by Mahmoud Abbas.

The IDF struck a rocket production complex belonging to Hamas in the Gaza Strip overnight.

The detainee, Hisham Abu Hawwash, has been on a hunger strike for 138 days in protest of his administrative detention.