Hezbollah considered attacking the IDF military base that houses the Mossad intelligence agency but decided against it at the last minute due to concerns that doing so would elicit a strong reaction from Israel, Army Radio reports.
The Glilot base near Herzliya is home to the Mossad headquarters along with several IDF intelligence units, including the high-profile signals intelligence group Unit 8200.
Fuming Palestinians claim Ben Gvir announced plans for synagogue on Temple Mount
The Palestinian Authority says a remark from National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir expressing support for a synagogue being placed atop the Temple Mount in Jerusalem is tantamount to an explicit call for the Al-Aqsa Mosque to be razed and replaced with a Jewish house of worship.
In a statement, the PA’s foreign ministry calls on allies from the international arena to “pressure Israel to force it to put an end to Ben Gvir’s practices, statements and provocative stances.”
Speaking to Army Radio earlier in the day, Ben Gvir said Jews would not be prevented from praying atop the Temple Mount, currently banned as part of a status quo agreement governing the sensitive site.
A statement from Hamas claims, however, that Ben Gvir announced plans “to build a synagogue inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque,” urging Palestinians to mass at the site “to confront the occupation’s plans.”
In a statement, the mufti of Jerusalem speaks out against “the threat of a synagogue” at the site and Jews visiting the site praying or dancing.
German leader vows to sharpen knife control after deadly stabbing
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says a deadly knife attack Friday was an act “terrorism against us all,” pledging swift action to tighten weapons controls and deport migrants.
A 26-year-old Syrian man with links to the Islamic State group is accused of stabbing three people to death and wounding another eight at a street festival in western Germany’s Solingen. IS claimed the attack was “revenge” for Muslims “in Palestine and everywhere”
“This was terrorism, terrorism against us all,” Scholz says at a press conference in Solingen.
“We will now have to tighten up the weapons regulations… in particular with regard to the use of knives,” Scholz adds. “I’m sure this will happen very quickly.”
Rocket sirens sound in north for first time since Sunday morning attack
Rocket sirens are sounding in several communities in northern Israel, the first such scare since a massive barrage Sunday morning.
People in Zar’it, Shomra, Adamit, Hanita and Arab al-Aramshe in the western Galilee are told to seek shelter.
Hamas commander said seriously hurt in Sidon strike
Lebanese media outlets report that the intended target of an alleged Israeli drone strike near the coastal city of Sidon was a Hamas official.
The reports name him as Nidal Hleihil.
According to the Annahar outlet, two missiles struck Hleihil’s car as he left his house and headed to his vehicle.
Iran says Israeli deterrence no longer exists after Hezbollah barrage
Iran says Israel’s deterrent power has been lost and the strategic balance in the region has now shifted against it, claiming that a Hezbollah attack Sunday caught Israel off-guard, despite what Jerusalem says was preemptive action that partially thwarted the assault.
“Despite the comprehensive support of states like the United States, Israel could not predict the time and place of a limited and managed response by the resistance. Israel has lost its deterrence power,” Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani wrote on X.
Kanaani added that Israel “now has to defend itself within its occupied territories” and that “strategic balances have undergone fundamental changes” to the detriment of Israel.
Hezbollah launched hundreds of rockets and drones at Israel early on Sunday, as Israel’s military said it had struck Lebanon with around 100 jets to stymie a larger attack, including plans to bomb a sensitive military site near Tel Aviv.
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said the group’s barrage, a reprisal for the assassination of the terror group’s military commander Fuad Shukr last month, had been completed “as planned.” Israel killed Shukr in an airstrike in Beirut, days after a Hezbollah rocket killed 12 Israeli children in a village on the Golan Heights
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