Channel 13 broadcasts what it says is a newly obtained video of last year’s incident, in which the young Palestinian was stopped outside Jerusalem as he tried to enter Israel. The Palestinian man, who was wounded in the incident, was shot with a non-lethal, sponge-tipped bullet. Woman’s lawyer says she did not fire the bullet.
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh is said to have met with the head of the Palestinian Authority's Central Elections Commission to discuss the guidelines of the electoral process. Haniyeh describes move as "real reconciliation."
Somalia’s Islamic State affiliate, one of the most important outposts of the jihadist group, posts pictures on Telegram with a caption saying they were pledging allegiance to Abu Ibrahim Hashimi al-Quraishi. Egypt’s Islamic State affiliate, Sinai Province, also swears allegiance to Quraishi.
Dozens of Iraqi protesters scale the concrete barriers ringing the Iranian consulate in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, bringing down an Iranian flag and replacing it with the Iraqi flag. An Iranian cleric, meanwhile, says the main source of the “lack of security, the backwardness, the disputes and the plundering of property in Iraq” is the US Embassy in Baghdad.
Speaking at the Christian Media Summit in Jerusalem, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the Arab world's perception of Israel is undergoing a seismic shift and that the Jewish state has "become an indispensable ally against the enemy of militant Islam." Netanyahu: Israel prevented Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.
