As the International Criminal Court on Thursday issued arrest warrants for Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, Israeli leaders from across the political spectrum united to condemn the decision pronounced by a three-judge panel of the United Nations court.
Palestinian politicians hailed the decision by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to issue arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, concerning alleged war crimes committed in Gaza.
Yemen's Houthi group said they launched a bomb-laden drone attack on Israel's southern port city of Eilat, hitting a "vital target."
At least 12 paramedics from civil defence teams were killed in an Israeli airstrike on their centre in Duris, a village in Baalbek in eastern Lebanon, media reported.
Two men were killed in Israel's northern city of Nahariya in a rocket attack from Lebanon, Israeli authorities said.
A year has gone by since the dastardly Hamas attack on Israel that ignited the ongoing war, leaving not only the region but the world in turmoil.
The evolving crisis in West Asia continues to test the limits of US diplomacy, particularly as tensions between Israel, Iran, and Hezbollah intensify.
A senior Iranian military commander on Friday warned that Iran would strike all of Israel's refineries and gas fields should it "make any mistake," the semi-official Mehr news agency reported.
The response from Iran is also troubling, the country's foreign ministry said in a statement.
The recent missile barrage launched by Iran against Israel marks a significant escalation in a region already fraught with volatility.
