COP KILLED

Israel Police Sgt.-Maj. Barak Meshulam, 30, was killed in a suspected vehicle ramming attack early on July 17 at a checkpoint near Ra’anana. According to police, the car had been stolen from the Gush Dan area by a 17-year-old Ramallah resident, who was arrested. Meshulam, who was buried in Kfar Saba, leaves a wife, Ariel, and two children, Alma and Leo. On July 19, a 41-year-old Israeli man suffered moderate wounds in a screwdriver stabbing attack on a bus near Jerusalem’s Ramot neighborhood, police said. The assailant, identified as a 44-year-old Ramallah resident, was shot and wounded by a passerby, Meshi Ben Ami, a news photographer.6a:{"position":0,"content":"$6b"} 6c:{"position":1,"content":"

SWIFT ACTION

The IDF shot down a Hezbollah drone that crossed the Lebanese border into Israel on July 18. The IDF said air control units tracked the unmanned aircraft and the army took the drone for analysis after it was downed. The incident took place three weeks after the IDF downed four UAVs launched by Hezbollah at an offshore gas field. In the south, the IDF struck Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip on July 16, after four rockets were fired at southern Israel. The targets included an underground site in the Nuseirat refugee camp that was “one of the largest and most important sites for the production of materials for rockets,” the army said in a statement."} 6e:T70f,

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