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Smoke billows from an Israeli air strike on the Hanadi compound in Gaza City, controlled by the Palestinian Hamas terror group on May 11, 2021. (MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)
Egypt has reached out to Israel to help calm ongoing tensions amid days of unrest in Jerusalem and rocket fire from Gaza, but has yet to receive a response, its foreign minister told an emergency Arab League meeting Tuesday.
The Israel Defense Forces expanded its airstrikes in the Gaza Strip Tuesday afternoon in retaliation for the firing of hundreds of rockets at Israeli cities, in an escalation sparked by violent unrest at Jerusalem’s flashpoint Temple Mount compound.
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“An attack was carried out on a hiding place in which senior members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s rocket apparatus were staying,” the Israeli military and the Shin Bet said, without identifying the casualties.
The Al-Quds Brigades vowed revenge for the deaths of its commanders, calling it a “cowardly assassination.”
“Our martyrs, commanders Sameh Fahim Al-Mamlouk, Kamal Tayseer Qureiqa and Muhammad Yahya Abu Al-Ata, bled, and we affirm that the response to their assassination will be harsh,” a spokesperson for the Al-Quds Brigades said.
As soon as the airstrike took place, a barrage of near nonstop rocket fire from Gaza began to strike southern Israel. Two Israeli civilians, including an elderly woman, were killed in Ashkelon.
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On April 23, 2021, customs authorities at the Saudi port of Jeddah announced that they had thwarted an attempt to smuggle drugs – mainly Captagon (fenethylline hydrochloride) pills, an amphetamine drug popular in the Middle East –
in a shipment of pomegranates arriving from Lebanon. Subsequently, the Saudi Interior Ministry announced that beginning April 25, the country would accept no Lebanese imports of agricultural produce. The ministry added that it had previously warned Lebanese authorities about the increase in drug smuggling attempts from its territory, and that the ban would remain in force until the Lebanese authorities provide satisfactory and documented guarantees that they have taken the necessary steps to stop the systematic smuggling against the kingdom.
Hizbullah Supporters, Opponents Exchange Blows Over Assassination Of Shi ite Lebanese Activist Lokman Slim
March 9, 2021
On February 4, 2021, Lebanese journalist and activist Lokman Slim, a vocal critic of Hizbullah, was found shot dead in his car in an area of South Lebanon known as a Hizbullah stronghold. Some in Lebanon accused Hizbullah of assassinating him in order to silence him and also as a warning to other Hizbullah opponents, especially the Shi ites among them. For example, Mustafa Aloush, deputy chair of the Al-Mustaqbal faction, claimed that the assassination was a message to the Shi ites so that none of them will consider crossing over to the opposition.