Turkey will submit on Wednesday a declaration of intervention in South Africa's genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague, a diplomatic source said.The source added that the declaration will happen at 1330 GMT after Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said this week that Turkey would make the declaration on Wednesday."Turkey's intervention pushes the international community to recognize and address the humanitarian crisis in Gaza," the source said.In May, Turkey said it had decided to join the case launched by South Africa as it stepped up measures against Israel over the assault on Gaza, adding that its bid would follow the necessary legal preparations.In June, Spain said it had asked to intervene in the case at the ICJ, the highest legal body of the United Nations, established in 1945 to resolve disputes between states.Israel has repeatedly dismissed the case's accusations of genocide as baseless, arguing in court that its operations in Gaza are self-defense and targeted at Hamas militants who attacked Israel on October 7.

Israeli jets have broken the sound barrier over Beirut as well as in southern Lebanon, the Hezbollah-affiliated Al Mayadeen reported on Wednesday afternoon.This is a developing story.

An attempted terrorist attack against IDF soldiers near Bekaot in the West Bank was thwarted, the military stated on Wednesday evening. On Monday, terrorists fired at Bekaot, and from an IDF assessment, terrorists tried to draw soldiers to a side axis and then fled. Following this, the soldiers carried out an ambush to thwart terrorists in the area. The area was closed to traffic. Later on Monday, soldiers from Unit 636 eliminated an armed terrorist who tried to shoot at the settlement. On Wednesday, IDF soldiers conducted scans near the area of the shooting in order to remove additional threats. From these investigations, engineering soldiers located and destroyed four explosive devices planted in the area.

Israel Air Force fighter jets struck a Hezbollah military base where terrorists were located and operating on Tuesday in the area of the Yaroun village in Lebanon, the IDF said in the early hours of Wednesday.In addition, the fighter jets also struck a Hezbollah terrorist infrastructure site in the area of Kfarkela in southern Lebanon.