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Speaking at a cabinet meeting on Sunday, Bennett said that the Lebanese government and army "should take responsibility for what happens in their backyard", reports Xinhua news agency. The Prime Minister made the remarks a day after the armed Lebanese group, Hezbollah fired rockets at Israeli territory.

The Israeli fighter jets struck a military compound and rocket launching site of the Palestinian Islamic Hamas Movement, which controls the Gaza Strip, Xinhua news agency quoted the IDF as saying. "The rocket launching site was in a civilian area, once again emphasizing how Hamas endangers Palestinian civilians," the IDF said, vowing to continue to respond as necessary to Hamas activities emanating from Gaza.

The study said that "80 per cent of the population of the Gaza Strip spend most of their times in complete darkness, with electricity only available for eight hours a day at best". "This problem is more threatening to the health and well-being of the Gaza Strip residents, which is home to more than 2 million people, with the continuing rise of temperatures during summer days," the study said.

Ahmed Majdalani, a member of the executive committee of Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), told reporters here on Sunday that "the Israeli settlement building and the confiscation of Palestinian land must stop", reports Xinhua news agency. He added that trust-building doesn't only mean easing economic and financial measures for the Palestinians or arranging security coordination between the two sides, but also means changing the Israeli policies.

"I declare unequivocally: Iran carried out the attack against the ship," Bennett said while addressing a weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday. He added that Israel has intelligence evidence of Iran's involvement in the attack on the oil tanker Mercer Street, reports Xinhua news agency. Israel expects the international community to exert pressure on Iran that "made a serious mistake", the Prime Minister said.

"It condemns the endless Israeli crimes against the Palestinians in the West Bank without posing any danger to the soldiers," Xinhua news agency quoted the statement issued on Thursday as saying. The statement referred to the killing of a 41-year-old Palestinian near the village of Beita in northern West Bank on Tuesday, and the killing of an 11-year-old boy near the southern West Bank city of Hebron on Wednesday.

Officials from the Defence Ministry visited the company's offices near Tel Aviv on Wednesday, at the same time when Defence Minister Benny Gantz arrived in Paris for a pre-arranged visit, in which he discussed the Pegasus revelations with his French counterpart. French President Emmanuel Macron is one of the highest profile figures whose phone numbers appeared on a leaked database.

The consortium's analysis of the leaked data identified at least 10 governments believed to be NSO customers who were entering numbers into a system: Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Morocco, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Hungary, India, and the United Arab Emirates. Rwanda, Morocco, India, and Hungary denied having used Pegasus to hack the phones of the individuals named in the list.

The Israeli military took at least 49 structures in the Ras al-Tin, Ramallah Governorate displacement on Wednesday, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a statement on Friday.

The Prime Minister made the appeal during a meeting on Wednesday with former US Representative Robert Wexler in the West Bank city of Ramallah, according to a statement issued by Ishtaye's office. Ishtaye told Wexler that launching a serious peace process with Israel must be preceded by confidence-building measures that have to be taken by the Israeli government, Xinhua news agency quoted the statement as saying.