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Israel officially notified the United Nations that it cancelled the agreement regulating its relations with UNRWA since 1967, the country’s foreign ministry said on Monday, days after the Israeli parliament voted to ban the UN relief agency for Palestinians. Follow our liveblog for the latest developments in the war in the Middle East.
Israel says it carried out ground raid into Syria, seizing Syrian citizen connected to Iran
The Israeli military says it carried out a ground raid into Syria, seizing a Syrian citizen involved in Iranian networks.
The statement on Sunday marked the first time in the current war that Israel announced its troops operated in Syrian territory.
Israel has carried out airstrikes in Syria multiple times over the past year, targeting members of Lebanon’s Hezbollah and officials from Iran, the close ally of both Hezbollah and Syria. But it has not previously made public any ground forays into Syria.
The Israeli military said the seizure was part of a special operation “that took place in recent months”, though it did not say exactly when it occurred.
Israel notifies UN it is cancelling agreement regulating UNRWA
The Israeli Foreign Ministry has officially notified the UN of its intention to ban UNRWA from operating in the occupied Palestinian territories, Israeli media reported, circulating a letter addressed to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and General Assembly President Philemon Yang.
“Further to legislation passed by the Knesset of Israel on 28 October, 2024, I write this letter to notify the United Nations that the state of Israel withdraws its request issued to UNRWA, dated 14 June, 1967,” Ministry director general Jacob Blitshtein wrote.
The law will come into effect within three months, he added.
- Israel has officially notified the United Nations that it cancelled the agreement that regulated its relations with UNRWA, the country’s foreign ministry said on Monday.
- The Israeli military said it has carried out a ground raid into Syria, seizing a Syrian citizen involved in Iranian networks.
- Israel on Sunday pressed on with its campaigns in Lebanon and Gaza, launching several deadly strikes as Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu visited his country’s northern border.
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More than 30 people were killed in Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip on Sunday, Palestinian medics said. Nearly half of the deaths were recorded in the enclave’s north.
- A former spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Binjamin Netanyahu has been detained for allegedly leaking confidential documents that may have harmed Gaza hostage deal negotiations, a court said on Sunday.
- Yemen’s Houthis said on Sunday they would maintain their maritime blockade against Israeli vessels in response to “intelligence information” regarding Israeli shipping companies selling their assets to other companies.
(FRANCE 24 with AFP, AP and Reuters)
About casualty figures from Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry:
Gaza’s health ministry collects data from the enclave’s hospitals and the Palestinian Red Crescent. For more on the health ministry’s casualty figures, click here.
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