Israel is participating in efforts to de-escalate the deadly conflict in Sudan, Israel Hayom has learned.

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At least 56 civilians have died in the clashes between the military and the paramilitary.

Representatives of military leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and paramilitary commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo have been in contact with Israel, including in the days after the outbreak in the conflict.

Israeli officials urged their Sudanese counterparts to put an end to violence and restore calm.

The United States too is involved in efforts to calm the situation. A source familiar with the matter said that a full-blown civil war could break out in Sudan in the coming days.

Due to the conflict, Israel's political echelon estimates that the full peace agreement with Sudan cannot be signed until after the conflict is over.

The recent tensions stem from disagreement over how the Rapid Support Forces, headed by Dagalo, should be integrated into the armed forces and what authority should oversee the process. The merger is a key condition of Sudan's unsigned transition agreement with political groups.

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Just like with heartburn, no one really pays attention to the International Emmy award until you actually have one. 

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Nevertheless, the fact that the Israeli spy thriller Tehran beat more than 20 contenders to win the Drama Series category is quite an accomplishment. 

No doubt, those in the television industry dream of being awarded the golden statuette. But the question is: How much does it help the series? Turns out, not much. 

Ask the creators of Nevsu, which won an International Emmy for the comedy series in 2018, and they will tell you that the victory did not even help them secure a permanent spot on a broadcaster's program. 

Because what else does such an award provide other than a feeling of accomplishment, appreciation, interviews, and opportunities for those involved? Tehran has already been renewed for a second season. Also, an Emmy does undo the plot's flaws. 

Perhaps it's a good thing that movie critics are not the ones awarding the prize, and all that is left for us to do is wonder how a spy thriller that wasn't even Kan 11's best show this year got this distinction.

Perhaps it is due to the world being overly fond of Israel's conflicts with others. Tensions between Israel and Iran that have been fueled by international media for years seem to intrigue global viewers that are somewhat familiar with the conflict. 

Add to that the passionate love affair between a young Iranian and an Israeli Mossad agent. That part of the plot alone is worth half an Emmy. 

Waltz with Bashir, Beaufort, Prisoners of War, Fauda, and now Tehran. When Israel is not at war, it seems we excel at exporting movies that are based on bloody conflicts with our neighbors. 

If there is one thing that Israel is consistently good at, it's fighting with Arabs. How lovely that the world appreciates this and awards us with prizes for this.

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Nine Israeli citizens were evacuated Tuesday from the war zone in the northern Tigray region of Ethiopia.

According to the Foreign Ministry, the Israelis were pulled out as part of a complex operation coordinated with the Ethiopian government, the United Nations, and humanitarian groups operating on the ground.

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Those evacuated included five employees of the Netafim and Bern companies and four volunteers for the Israeli NGO CultivAid.

The region has seen heavy clashes between the Ethiopian military and Tigray special forces. Demonstrations are being held in Addis Ababa with protesters carrying national flags and signs to honor the Ethiopian National Defense Forces.

According to media reports, tensions could escalate into a full-blown civil war. Hundreds of people have already lost their lives in these riots.

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The latest round of fighting in the Nagorno-Karabakh region continues to send ricochets across the Middle East: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday submitted a motion to parliament – a week after Russian President Vladimir Putin declared a ceasefire between Armenia and Azerbaijan – seeking its approval to deploy peacekeepers to monitor the ceasefire agreement.

CNN Türk reported that the Turkish parliament is expected to give the troop deployment a one-year mandate. The bill also states that Erdogan would determine the number of troops to be sent and the scope of their mission and that civilian personnel could also be deployed as part of the peacekeeping mission.

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The move is Turkey's response to the latest round of hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh, which ended in a major victory for Azerbaijan, and to Russia's refusal to include Turkey as a full partner in the monitoring force slated to preserve the five-year ceasefire deal. The Turks have presented the cease-fire as a joint initiative between Erdogan and Putin, saying Turkey will decide the location of the joint operations center for the Russian and Turkish troops. To lower the tensions between the sides, the troops deployed by Ankara likely won't be positioned on the border between the Azeris and Armenians.

The pace of developments in recent days amid the backdrop of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is extraordinary. Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, one of Erdogan's fiercest adversaries, hosted Armenian President Armen Sarkissian at his palace on Sunday.

"We discussed strengthening the relationship between our two countries. We also expressed our support for a ceasefire between Armenia and Azerbaijan, and peace and stability in the region," Bin Zayed said in a tweet after the meeting.

In the meantime, Azeri Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov spoke on the phone with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov. Russia, it is known, is Azerbaijan's patron. Bayramov and Lavrov discussed plans to rehabilitate the region in the aftermath of the fighting, the matter of humanitarian assistance, and the need for the international community to help preserve cultural and religious institutions in Nagorno-Karabakh. The Armenians were supposed to have withdrawn from the Kalbajar region of Nagorno-Karabakh as early as Sunday, but in a gesture of goodwill, Azerbaijan granted the people there a 10-day extension due to weather conditions.

'A direct message to the Armenians'

"When the Turks say 'Azerbaijan,' from their point of view this includes Nagorno-Karabakh because according to international law it is considered Azeri territory," Dr. Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak, an expert on contemporary Turkish politics and foreign policy, told Israel Hayom. "Even if the Turks aren't deployed in Nagorno-Karabakh to the area that represents the border with Armenia, from Ankara's perspective this is still a direct message to the Armenians ahead of the next round of fighting."

According to Yanarocak, "Turkey is already preparing for the evacuation of the Armenian territories. This wouldn't be the first time in the past decade that the Turkish parliament has approved the deployment of a significant military force. It's already happened in Iraq, Syria and Libya. The moment such a decision is ratified, its implementation is immediate. Therefore, the critical question is where they will be stationed in Nagorno-Karabakh. If the definition is 'Azarbaijan,' then the areas recently seized from the Armenians also apply."

In the current situation, Yanarocak noted, "The Azeris are between a rock and a hard place. Although they aspire to sovereignty, they also need the whole world to know that 'Turkey is their big sister,'" and therefore calls the shots.

As for the Sarkissian's meeting with Abu Dhabi's crown prince, Yanarocak said, "The Armenians are batting their eyelashes at Erdogan's biggest enemies because their economy isn't prospering and there's now an acute refugee problem of homeless Armenians. The country is now reliant on grants from Armenians living abroad, hence they're trying to create a mechanism for a consistent money flow."

Yanarocak agrees that if Azerbaijan opens the door to Turkey's military, then it all depends on Russia. With that, he said, "The Armenians seem determined to play the UAE card, which from its own perspective wants to station forces near Turkey. This, however, depends on Russia, particularly after the lesson Putin taught [Armenian Prime Minister Nikol] Pashinyan during the last round of fighting not to flirt with the West. It's possible the Russians won't consent to the deployment of Emirati forces in Russia's backyard – and all the Armenian plans will fall apart."

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Some from Lebanon's large ethnic Armenian population have already traveled to join the fight, according to members of the community, although they say the numbers are small.

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The new eruption of violence in the Caucasus region strikes close to home for Lebanon's Armenians. Red, blue and orange Armenian flags are flown on balconies, windows and roofs of buildings in Bourj Hammoud, Beirut's main Armenian district. Anti-Turkish graffiti in English and Armenian mark walls all over the streets.

Fighting has raged since Sept. 27 in the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, leaving several hundred dead. The enclave lies within Azerbaijan but has been under the control of ethnic Armenian forces backed by neighboring Armenia since 1994, when a truce ended a years-long war that killed an estimated 30,000 people.

On the other side of the latest fighting, Turkey has sent hundreds of Syrian opposition fighters to back its ally, Azerbaijan, according to a Syrian war monitor and three Syria-based opposition activists.

Lebanese-Armenians have been sending money and aid as well as campaigning in the media in support of ethnic Armenians in the enclave, which they refer to as Artsakh. The support they can give is limited – Lebanon is undergoing a severe economic crisis, and banks have imposed tight capital controls.

Lebanon is home to one of the largest Armenian communities in the world, most of them descendants of survivors of the 1915 genocide by Ottoman Turks.

An estimated 1.5 million died in massacres, deportations and forced marches that began in 1915 as Ottoman officials worried that the Christian Armenians would side with Russia, its enemy in World War I.

The event is widely viewed by historians as genocide. Turkey denies the deaths constituted genocide, saying the toll has been inflated and that those killed were victims of civil war and unrest.

"We will not allow what happened in 1915 to happen again. We will fight until the last Armenian soldier," said Ghazarian, standing next to a coffee stand decorated with Lebanese and Armenian flags.

"This is not a war between Muslims and Christians. This is a war for the existence of the Armenian entity and we are ready," said Ghazarian, who owns a clothes shop.

Lebanese legislator Hagop Pakradounian, who heads the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, the largest and most powerful Armenian party in Lebanon, said volunteers going from Lebanon to Armenia act on their own, and there is no decision by any organization or the community itself to send them.

"We cannot tell them not to go. They are free," Pakradounian told The Associated Press in his office in Bourj Hammoud. "We consider it a war against all the Armenian people and a continuation of the genocide project since the Ottoman Empire."

Meanwhile, Turkey has sent more than 1,200 Syrian fighters – most of them members of Turkish-backed opposition groups – to fight alongside Azeri forces, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human rights, an opposition war monitor that tracks Syria's nine-year conflict. The Observatory's chief, Rami Abdurrahman, said 72 Syrian fighters have been killed so far.

Three opposition activists in Syria corroborated the report. They said Turkish security companies recruit the men ostensibly to work as guards at oil facilities in return for around $1,200 a month, but most end up on front lines. One of the activists sent the AP photos of young men allegedly killed in Azerbaijan.

A citizen journalist based in northern Syria said he knows some of the fighters who joined the battle, adding that warnings they sent about the intensity of the fighting and the dangers made others who were planning to go change their minds.

The deployment is similar to what happened in Libya, where battle-hardened Syrian fighters helped tip the balance of power in favor of the UN-supported government of Prime Minister Fayez Sarraj, an ally of Turkey.

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Armenia has repeatedly said over the past week that Turkey sent Syrian fighters to back the Azeris, a claim that Ankara and Azerbaijan deny.

Syrian President Bashar Assad told Russia's RIA Novosti news agency that Turkey is bringing "terrorists" from Syria and Libya to fight in Azerbaijan, accusing Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of being "behind the escalation in Nagorno-Karabakh."

French President Emmanuel Macron spoke with Russia's Vladimir Putin about the conflict last week. Macron later told reporters he had information "that we're confident in" confirming Turkey's deployment of Syrian mercenaries in the fighting. "It's a very serious new development that also changes the balance of things," he said.

Russia's Foreign Ministry expressed concern over reports about "militants from illegal armed groups" from Syria and Libya being sent to the conflict zone.

Hikmet Hajiyev, a foreign policy aide to the Azerbaijani president, said this week that "we completely reject" the claim, calling on those who make the accusations to give evidence.

Maj. Youssef al-Hammoud, an official with the so-called Syrian National Army, an umbrella for Turkish-backed armed opposition groups in Syria, strongly denied in a telephone call with the AP that any fighters were being sent from Syria to Azerbaijan. "This is an Armenian media campaign," al-Hammoud said.

Lebanon's Armenians are doing what they can to help. Yeghia Tashjian, a freelance researcher, said he was writing articles to raise awareness about what Armenians are being subjected to.

"For us, this is an existential war that it is important to win not just for emotional or nationalist issues but because it is our homeland and we should fight for it," Tashjian said.

In Bourj Hammoud, Tro Mandalian, who works in a perfume distribution business, said Armenians' opponents always had bigger armies but still Armenians survived. "We have strong hearts," he said.

"Let them try us," he said. "We don't surrender and we only kneel to God."

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The statement, carried by the Saudi state news agency SPA, added the missile was launched in a way to target civilians.

Yemen has been locked in conflict since 2014 when the Iran-aligned Houthis seized Sanaa, the capital, and then much of the country's north. Fighting escalated in March 2015 when the Saudi-led coalition intervened to restore the government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.

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Nickolay Mladenov said on Monday that the "risk of war remains imminent," a week after a cease-fire between Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers ended the worst fighting since Operation Protective Edge in the summer of 2014.

The spate of violence killed 25 Palestinians, including 10 terrorist operatives, and four Israeli civilians.

Mladenov, inaugurating a solar power plant for a Gaza hospital, said parties must "consolidate the understandings" of the cease-fire.

The deal, mediated by Egypt, Qatar and the U.N., promises to let in fuel and humanitarian aid and ease the movement of people from the blockaded territory.

A Qatari cash infusion, meant for thousands of needy families as part of the cease-fire understandings, arrived Monday.

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