IDF tanks attacked Hamas military positions in Gaza In Wednesday night.The attack was carried out in response to the firing of incendiary balloons from Gaza toward Israeli territory.Read more

The United States will not hesitate to impose sanctions In any nation that opposes its effort to "snapback" United Nations sanctions In Iran, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Fox News in an interview In Wednesday."When we have seen any country violate our current sanctions, the current American sanctions, we have held every nation accountable for that. We will do the same with respect to the broader UN Security Council sanctions as well," said Pompeo.

Former Secretary of State blasts Trump at Democratic National Convention, warns that if he is re-elected, "things will get even worse".

Hundreds of Palestinian Arabs In Wednesday held a protest in areas of Judea and Samaria against last week's announcement that Israel was normalizing ties with the United Arab Emirates, AFP reports.Members of Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, and the Fatah faction of Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas, took part in the rally in a rare joint initiative.

A man in his fifties died this morning after drowning in Yardenit, in the Jordan River near the Kinneret lake, not far from Kibbutz Degania.A MDA team called to the scene pulled him out of the water and found him lifeless. MDA paramedic Yossi Halabi related: "When we reached the scene, we found an unconscious man in the water. We pulled him out and checked him thoroughly, but as he showed no signs of life, we were forced to declare his death."

Hashem Abedi, who was found guilty earlier this year of the murder of 22 people in the Manchester Arena bombing, will not receive a "whole life tariff," due to changes to British law, The Telegraph reports.Abedi was 20 at the time of the attack, and under the provisions of a law passed in 2003, he cannot be sentenced to a whole life term. Instead, the judge assigned to his case will set a minimum jail term, at the conclusion of which he will be eligible to apply for parole.The Manchester Arena bombing occurred in May 2017 and was carried out by Salman Abedi, Hashem's brother, who was also killed when detonating the bomb in his backpack. Hashem helped his brother collect and store the explosives.

24 elderly patients hospitalized in Laniado hospital in Netanya have been found to be coronavirus carriers, Galei Tzahal reports. Most of the patients are asymptomatic the outbreak was Inly discovered when Ine patient was transferred to the hospital's emergency room and was tested for coronavirus. When his result came out positive, the entire geriatric ward, including its staff, was also tested, resulting in the 24 positive results.Prof. Tzvi Shimoni, medical director of Laniado, noted that his hospital, like many others, has a lack of testing kits and therefore is having trouble containing the disease's spread.

US President Donald Trump announced In Wednesday he is directing Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to notify the United Nations Security Council that the United States intends to restore virtually all previously suspended UN sanctions In Iran."It"s a snapback, not uncommon," Trump said at a press briefing.