Middle East conflict

Russia had welcomed this plan, which was primarily intended as a first step toward ending the bloodshed, solving the hostage issue and the exchange of the bodies of the dead, and this plan was definitely a positive development in this regard, the Russian foreign minister said

"All of this has been happening and continues to happen," Sergey Lavrov noted

The Russian foreign minister emphasized that such consideration should include Israel, because the two-state solution was at stake

According to the Israel Defense Forces, a number of those detained are suspected of having links to the radical Palestinian organizations Hamas and Islamic Jihad

The Israeli military struck "a structure used by Hamas to manufacture weapons, as well as a weapons storage facility"

According to the Israel Defense Forces, several activists managed to get into the enclave, but they were apprehended by the military

The Israeli army noted that "steps were taken in order to mitigate harm to civilians as much as possible, including the use of surveillance and precise munitions"

Leader of Turkey’s Nationalist Movement Party Devlet Bahceli warned that any puppet government imposed on Iran would be "illegitimate and immoral"

The sources also said that the US military plans in the Middle East had become more ambitious

The injured are accompanied by relatives, the TV channel said