Syrian state media said the country's air defenses had thwarted an attack last Thursday by "hostile targets" in the Kiswah area, without identifying them.

Undercover Israelis used fake Gaza IDs, which included detailed information belonging to real Gaza citizens, and posed as medical aid workers, a Hamas official said to the Independent.

Hundreds of celebrants hailed the officers — guests of the Chabad of Roslyn — as heroes representing the triumph of the human spirit.

The 28 member states voted in favor of two resolutions, but warned that this was the last year it would do so.

Pneumonia, flu virus hits Israel hard this winter.

“We cannot endorse a narrow politics of respectability that shames Palestinians for resisting, for refusing to do nothing in the face of state violence and ethnic cleansing.”

Opponents of the law charged that it was unfairly passed by presidential fiat in an unstable, "occupied" context.

The report reviewed those agencies’ actions both during the November 2016 crisis and their readiness and absence of reforms from August 2017 to May 2018.