RAMALLAH - Three Palestinians including a four-year-old girl were killed with Israeli troops' gunfire at a roadblock northwest of Jerusalem.
GAZA - An Israeli air strike targeted a car in the Gazan town of Rafah hitting it directly and killing two of the three occupants, the Gaza press bureau declared.
JEDDAH - The Organization of Islamic Cooperation tersely condemned the Israeli occupation forces' premeditated killing of journalists and media personnel as well as their families in the occupied Palestinian territories.
DOHA - Qatari Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani affirmed necessity of halting the fire immediately and protecting civilians in Gaza and other occupied Palestinian territories.
BERLIN - German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock preceded her Mideast mission with a call upon the warring stakeholders to abstain from the escalation of violence.
AMMAN - Jordan's King Abdullah II has warned of a ripple effect the ongoing violence in the Gaza Strip could trigger.
LONDON - Kuwaiti squash athlete Abdullah Hani finished in second place at the British Open Squash championship's under-15 category, with Egypt's Saleh Saleh edging him out by a 3-1 score line. (end) ibi