In Israel, authorities are mobilizing more police after two attacks. Benjamin Netanyahu wants military reinforcements after the two attacks that killed three people including an Italian tourist. The international community calls for calm and the European Union calls for maximum restraint. The current outbreak of fever follows violence Wednesday on the esplanade of the Mosques, the third holiest site in Islam and the holiest in Judaism. Israeli forces brutally stormed into the Al-Aqsa Mosque to dislodge worshippers in the middle of Ramadan, prompting widespread condemnation.
Rockets were fired from Syria late Saturday after Israel began calling up police and army reservists following attacks that killed three people, including an Italian tourist, and earlier rocket fire from Lebanon.Despite appeals for restraint, violence has surged since Israeli police stormed the Al-Aqsa mosque on Wednesday after they said Palestinians barricaded themselves inside.Israel bombarded both Gaza and Lebanon in response to rocket fire by Palestinian militants.Late Saturday three rockets were fired from Syria, the Israeli army said.
Israel began calling up police and army reservists yesterday after separate attacks killed three people, including an Italian tourist, in Tel Aviv and the occupied West Bank.
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