Netanyahu says army prepared for ‘large-scale operation’ in West Bank

 

• Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel’s army is prepared for a “large-scale operation” in the occupied West Bank after Israeli forces killed two Palestinians in a gun battle in Hebron. The Israeli army says two soldiers were killed and three injured during the shooting.
• Abdollah Haji Sadeghi, a representative of the Iranian supreme leader to the IRGC, says Mojtaba Khamenei is exercising leadership and in good health.
• European and Middle Eastern foreign ministers are meeting in Istanbul for security talks on the Strait of Hormuz and regional crises.
• Saudi-led coalition forces say they intercepted a ballistic missile fired by the Houthis towards Khamis Mushait.

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  Israeli forces order families in Khirbet al-Sarou, near Jenin, to evacuate homes

  Israel’s military has ordered families living in the town of Khirbet al-Sarouj, west of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, to evacuate their homes and livestock shelters within a week, according to the Wafa news agency.

  The agency quoted a resident as saying Israeli forces raided the area, where there are seven family homes and 10 livestock shelters, and delivered the evacuation threat.

  The families fear their land will be transformed into an Israeli settler outpost and potentially a new Israeli settlement, Wafa reports.

  

  Israeli settlements near Jenin, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank [File: Mohamad Torokman/Reuters]
• 19m ago

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  Israeli settlers destroy Shireen Abu Akleh memorial in Jenin

  Israeli settlers have destroyed a memorial dedicated to Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh near the Ajja roundabout, south of Jenin, Wafa reports.

  Armed settlers raided the area in two vehicles and destroyed the memorial, which the Ajja muncipality had put up in honour of Abu Akleh, the Palestinian news agency

  Abu Akleh was killed by an Israeli soldier who shot her in the head while she was covering an Israeli military raid in Jenin in 2022.

  

  A man visits the spot where Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was killed on May 11, 2022 while covering an Israeli raid, in the Jenin refugee camp in the north of the occupied West Bank [Zain Jaafar/AFP]
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  Yemeni forces say they targeted Houthi military supplies with drones in al-Jawf

  Yemen’s government forces have announced that they have targeted military supplies that belong to the Houthis at the Huwaishan site, on the al-Jawf front, with drones.

  It also announced the bombing of Houthi weapons depots in two air strikes west of Taiz province.

  We will bring you more information when we have it.

  

  Houthi fighters participating in an attack against Saudi-backed Yemeni forces in the eastern Yemeni province of Marib [File: Houthi Military Media Centre via EPA]