A man was killed and another injured in an armed attack in the northern West Bank, occupied Palestinian territory by Israel, on Sunday, according to Israeli emergency services and the army. “Following gunfire on Route 90, near the Mehola junction, Magen David Adom paramedics and an army medical team confirmed the death of a man in his twenties and evacuated a wounded man in moderate condition,” said Magen David Adom, Israel’s equivalent of the Red Cross. The Israeli army confirmed the death of an Israeli “civilian” in the attack.
German Chancellor Benjamin Netanyahu told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that a ceasefire in Gaza would be a “decisive step” towards de-escalation in the Middle East, his spokesman Wolfgang Büchner said in a statement.
Olaf Scholz “stressed that the time has come to finalize the agreement on the release of the hostages and a ceasefire” and insisted that “an end to the war in Gaza would be a decisive step towards de-escalation in the region,” the spokesman said.
EU Foreign Minister Josep Borrell said he was “horrified by the images of a school in Gaza used as a shelter, hit by an Israeli strike, which reportedly left dozens of Palestinians dead.” “At least ten schools have been targeted in recent weeks. There is no justification for these massacres,” he wrote on X.
The White House said the United States was “deeply concerned” by the Israeli strike.
“This underscores the urgency of a ceasefire and an agreement on the hostages, for which we continue to work tirelessly,” a White House spokesman said.
Drugs, medication, gambling… Narcotics use and addictive behaviors have surged in Israel after the unprecedented Hamas attack, according to health professionals.
“As a natural response to emotional stress and in the search for relief, there has been a dramatic increase in the use of various addictive sedative substances, whether prescription medications, illegal drugs, alcohol or sometimes addictive behaviors such as gambling,” psychiatrist Shaul Lev-Ran, founder of the Israel Center for Addiction and Mental Health in Netanya, central Israel, told AFP.
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