The Hamas is a "fundamentalist" group that has taken Palestinians living in Gaza as "hostage" and is using them as a "human shield", ex-Israel envoy to India Ron Malka told NDTV Thursday afternoon.
Israel will allow unvaccinated tourists entry for the first time since the pandemic began as infections and deaths caused by the coronavirus decline, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced on Sunday.
Israel's health ministry on Wednesday announced nearly 12,000 new coronavirus cases, constituting the largest daily rise in infections since the beginning of the pandemic nearly two years ago.
Israeli health officials are reporting what is believed to be the country s first death from the omicron variant of the coronavirus. Soroka Hospital, located in the southern city of Beersheba, said a man in his 60s died Monday, two weeks after he was hospitalised.