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Dozens of ultra-Orthodox Jewish demonstrators have broken into an Israeli army base in Tel Aviv to protest the conscription of members of the community.
According to the Times of Israel, the protesters have outnumbered security forces and the situation is currently not under control.
The newspaper added that an anti-enlistment protest had been taking place outside the Tel Hashomer base, which houses a military recruitment office, prior to the break-in.
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Air France said Tuesday that its flights and that of its low-cost subsidiary Transavia to Beirut will be suspended through at least Thursday because of fears that the Gaza war could spread.
The resumption of flights to Lebanon's capital, which have been halted since July 29, "will be subject to a new assessment of the local situation," the airline said.
Reporting by AFP
A United Nations expert on Tuesday condemned Israel's killing last week of Al Jazeera journalist Ismail Al-Ghoul and cameraman Ramy El Rify in Gaza and urged that the deaths be prosecuted as a war crime.
The two men died in a 31 July air strike by the Israeli military, which said Al-Ghoul was a Hamas operative.
"I strongly denounce the deliberate targeting by Israel of two journalists in Gaza, which adds to an already appalling toll of reporters and media workers killed in this war," Irene Khan, the UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression, said in a statement.
Reporting by Reuters
Israeli forces have killed at least 30 Palestinians and wounded 66 others in the past 24 hours, according to the Palestinian health ministry.
This brings the death toll since 7 October to 39,653, with more than 91,535 wounded and an estimated 10,000 missing, likely dead and buried under rubble.
Health officials report that around 70 percent of the victims are children and women.
Hezbollah has claimed responsibility for a drone and rocket attack targeting army bases in northern Israel, shortly after Israeli air strikes killed five people in the southern Lebanese town of Maifadoun.
Hezbollah's attack wounded at least six people, with two in critical condition, according to Israeli media.
Iran has yet to make any arrests linked to the suspected Israeli killing of Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, the Iranian judiciary said Tuesday.
The leader of the Palestinian group was killed last Wednesday during a visit for the swearing-in ceremony of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian.
The "necessary investigations" have begun and the results will be announced "as soon as the probe is completed," said judiciary spokesman Asghar Jahangir.
"Until today, no arrests have been made in connection with this case," he said, adding that the investigations involved Iranian military officials.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said Haniyeh was killed using a "short-range projectile" launched from outside his accommodation in Tehran.
Iran and Hamas have blamed Israel and vowed to retaliate. Israel has declined to comment.
On Saturday, the New York Times reported that Iran had arrested more than two dozen people, including senior intelligence officers among others, in connection with Haniyeh's killing.
Jahangir dismissed the claims about any arrests as "rumours" and "false".
"Haniyeh's assassination will definitely be met with a courageous response by the Islamic Republic," he said.
Reporting by Reuters
Lebanon's government is trying to prevent a Hezbollah response against Israel that could start a wider war, Lebanon's foreign minister Abdallah Bou Habib said on Tuesday during a press conference with his Egyptian counterpart.
Tensions in the region have spiralled in the last week following the killing in Tehran of Hamas' head and an Israeli strike on Beirut's suburbs that killed a top Hezbollah commander.
Reporting by Reuters
An Israeli air strike in the southern Lebanese town of Maifadoun killed at least four people on Tuesday, according to the Lebanese health ministry, as reported by Al Jazeera.
The death toll from the Israeli air strikes in Jenin has risen to at least three, according to the Palestinian health ministry.
Media reports suggest the number is likely higher as first responders continue to recover bodies from the site.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported to local media that five bodies have been recovered so far.
An Israeli soldier was lightly wounded in a stabbing attack at the Tunnels checkpoint south of Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, according to the Israeli army.
Israeli authorities reported that the attacker was "neutralised", but the person's condition was not immediately clear.
South Korea's foreign ministry on Tuesday "strongly advised" its nationals in Lebanon and Israel to leave as soon as possible due to escalating tensions in the Middle East.
The travel advisory was issued after a commander of the Lebanese group Hezbollah and the political chief of Hamas were killed, said Lee Jae-woong, a ministry spokesperson.
"South Korea's government... hopes that diplomatic efforts to de-escalate tensions such as negotiations for a ceasefire and hostage release will not stop," Lee said in a briefing.
As of Tuesday, more than 500 South Korean nationals are residing in Israel and around 120 in Lebanon, according to the ministry.
Reporting by Reuters
Israeli forces are shooting at ambulances in Jenin, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported, according to local media.
The shooting is preventing ambulances from reaching the site of Israeli drone strikes that have killed at least one Palestinian and wounded others.
Israeli drones bombed the occupied West Bank city of Jenin in two air strikes, killing at least one Palestinian, according to the Palestinian health ministry.
The strike comes amid an ongoing incursion by the Israeli military into Jenin and its refugee camp, which was launched Monday evening.
The Palestinian health ministry identified the person killed in the strikes as Ahmad Hossam al-Din al-Saadi.
It said he was 18-years-old.
The Israeli military confirmed the strikes saying they targeted "groups of gunmen".
The armed wing of Hamas, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, claimed an ambush targeting a number of Israeli military vehicles in Rafah which it said led to Israeli casualties amid ongoing clashes.
In an update shared on the messaging app Telegram, the Qassam Brigades said its fighters destroyed two Namer armoured personnel carriers using an anti-armour grenade and missile.
Shortly after, two Merkava tanks were targeted using an anti-armour missile and a landmine.
The ambush took place in George Street near the al-Taabeen mosque east of Rafah, the Qassam Brigades said.
It added helicopters were spotted landing in the location of the attack to transfer wounded soldiers and that clashes were ongoing.
Middle East Eye could not independently verify the claim. The Israeli military did not immediately comment.
An ongoing Israeli military raid into the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank has left massive destruction to civilian infrastructure, footage by local media showed.
The raid was launched Monday evening and remains underway.
Videos posted online showed entire roads razed, cars flipped and shops damaged.
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