Israel\’s army said it fired on Palestinians planting explosives along the security fence in central Gaza, killing one.\n\nNo Israeli soldiers were injured in the incident, which took place Tuesday morning.
China will join efforts to sanction Iran.
Top U.S. officials downplayed the significance of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\’s non-attendance at this week\’s nuclear summit.
Iran announced that it will join the \”world nuclear club\” within a month and will be capable of deterring possible attacks on the country, the Iranian Fars news agency reported on Tuesday.
Israel\’s prime minister decided not to relocate the site of a new protected emergency room in southern Israel despite the presence of ancient graves.\n\nBenjamin Netanyahu announced the decision Monday, a day after Israel\’s Cabinet gave him the authority to determine whether or not to relocate Barzilai Medical Center\’s planned underground emergency room in Ashkelon, which is within range of Gaza\’s rockets. The graves, which Israel antiquities experts have said are likely pagan, will be dug up and moved, Netanyahu announced.\n
A campaign is being launched in North America to locate the heirs to Israeli assets originally purchased by Jews who died in the Holocaust.
An Israeli strike on Iran\’s nuclear facilities could result in global catastrophe, Russia\’s president said.\n\nIn an interview Monday on \”Good Morning America,\” Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who is attending President Obama\’s Nuclear Security Summit this week, said, “Everyone is so close over there that nobody would be unaffected. And if conflict of that kind happens, and a strike is performed, then you can expect anything, including use of nuclear weapons,\” Medvedev said. \”And nuclear strikes in the Middle East, this means a global catastrophe.”
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