the street from the family home of the palestinian who carried out friday s deadly attack. his parents, his siblings have been able to take out some of their things, but soon they re expecting their apartment to be demolished as a punishment. now israel s security cabinet has announced other measures it says it wants to take against the families of palestinian attackers, possibly even deporting them. it s also said it s going to make it easier for israeli civilians to get gun licenses. and there has been a promise to speed up settlement expansion in the occupied west bank. that s on land that palestinians want for their hoped for future state. the palestinian government has accused the israeli government and its policies of being behind what they say is a dangerous escalation. on thursday, israel carried out its most deadly raid in the occupied west bank in many years and killed ten palestinians there.
this is all going on setting the scene as the us secretary of state, antony blinken, is due to arrive on a pre planned visit and he s going to meet israeli and palestinian leaders at this tense time. the iranian defence ministry says it has foiled an unsuccessful drone attack on a military facility in central isfahan province. this footage filmed and posted online by a local journalist appears to show the explosion at the facility. according to local media, three drones were involved and only minor damage was caused to the roof of the building. well, to discuss this further i m now joined by taraneh stone from our persian service. what more do we know about this? last nightjust before midnight, people heard a loud explosion in the city of isfahan and the state media said that the explosion happened a munition workshop and after that the defence ministry said it was an