"Whoever thinks that they can harm us and we will sit idly by is making a big mistake. We are prepared for a very strong action in the north. In one way or another we will restore security to the north," Netanyahu says. Gov't poised to extend call-up notice for up to 350,000 IDF troops.
Talks between Hamas and the Fatah party of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will be held in China in mid-June, according to officials from both sides.
The former defense minister and current participant in the War Cabinet, had given a June 8 deadline, warning, "If you choose the path of fanatics and lead the entire nation to the abyss – we will be forced to quit the government."
A Hezbollah source told Al-Jazeera that today's attacks were "the broadest and most comprehensive since October 8." The source claimed Hezbollah struck an IDF command center in the Golan Heights. "The goal is to deter Israel and respond to the killing of commander Abu Taleb," the source stated, adding that 150 rockets were fired towards the Galilee and Golan regions, along with 30 suicide drones.
Cal State pro-Palestinian protesters barricaded a building with overturned furniture, trapping faculty inside, yet police were not called. Columbia administrators expressed skepticism that Jewish students had experienced targeting or discrimination in leaked texts.
