Middle East

At least 27 people were killed when an Israeli airstrike exploded as people played soccer at a school turned shelter in southern Gaza.

The Emirati lawyers, academics and activists, who were imprisoned in national security trials, had been scheduled to be released.

Several displaced Palestinians had sought shelter at the school in Khan Younis that was hit by the airstrike. The Israeli military said it targeting a Hamas member who participated in the Oct. 7 attack.

Amos Hochstein, an energy policy official who was born in Israel, is playing diplomatic firefighter along the Israel-Lebanon border.

Two members of Hezbollah were reported killed in Syria, near the border with Lebanon, and the Israeli police said that the Hezbollah rocket barrage that followed killed a man and a woman in the Golan Heights.

Organized looters are attacking aid convoys in search of contraband cigarettes, officials say, as needed aid languishes.

Maj. Gen. Yehuda Fuks, the outgoing chief of Israel’s Central Command, rebuked the Israeli government’s policies in the West Bank and condemned “nationalist crime” by Jewish settlers.

“I’m just bringing the cool factor to it,” said the American hip-hop producer, who has spent millions of dollars on 48 camels for a team he calls “Saudi Bronx.”

With the survivor generation shrinking and antisemitism on the rise around the world, Israel’s Holocaust memorial is stepping up efforts to safeguard its vast collection of artifacts and testimony.

The Biden administration is trying to get foreign companies to invest in chip-making in the United States and more countries to set up factories to do final assembly and packaging.