The Times of Israel is liveblogging Monday’s events as they unfold.
Scores arrested on second day of Morocco protests, NGO says
Scores of people were arrested Sunday in Morocco during a second consecutive day of scattered protests called by a group seeking educational and public health reforms, a local rights group and AFP journalists report.
During the protests in Rabat, security forces prevent groups of young people from gathering in several places in the city center, where dozens are detained.
The protests, which also saw dozens of arrests on Saturday, were initiated by a collective known as “GenZ 212,” whose founders remain unknown.
Hakim Sikouk, president of the Rabat branch of the Moroccan Association for Human Rights (AMDH), reports that there were “more than 100 arrests in Rabat and dozens of others in Casablanca, Marrakesh, Agadir and Souk Sebt.”
Sikouk also says that more than 70 people arrested the day before in Rabat had been released.
AFP was unable to reach the police on Sunday, and the authorities have made no official comment.
The arrests are condemned by the AMDH, as well as opposition parties.
GenZ 212 had put out the call for protests days before on the platform Discord, citing issues such as “health, education and the fight against corruption,” while professing its “love for the homeland.”
The protests come at a time of popular discontent over Morocco’s social inequalities, which have disproportionately affected young people and women.
Recent reports of the deaths of eight pregnant women at a public hospital in Agadir have been a particular source of public outrage.
IDF says missile shot at Israel by Yemen’s Houthis has been intercepted
A ballistic missile launched by the Houthis in Yemen at Israel a short while ago was intercepted by air defenses, the military says.
There are no immediate reports of impacts or injuries. Sirens had sounded in central Israel and in several southern West Bank settlements.
The Houthis, an Iran-backed terror group, have repeatedly attacked Israel with ballistic missiles and drones, saying they are doing so in support of Gaza amid Israel’s war there against Hamas.
Sirens sound in Israel after missile launch from Yemen, IDF working to shoot it down
Sirens sound in central Israel and in several southern West Bank settlements following the launch of a ballistic missile from Yemen.
The IDF says it is working to shoot down the projectile.
Ballistic missile launched from Yemen at Israel, IDF says
A ballistic missile has been launched from Yemen at Israel, the military says.
Sirens are expected to sound in central Israel in the coming minutes.
Ex-hostage Eliya Cohen hails IDF killing of Hamas terrorist who abducted him
Eliya Cohen and his fiancée welcome the news that the IDF eliminated the Hamas terrorist who abducted Cohen from a roadside bomb shelter and took him as a hostage to Gaza during the group’s October 7, 2023, attack.
“Wow, I think I’m the happiest person in the world right now,” says Cohen’s fiancée Ziv Aboud, in a story posted to Instagram.
“The one who abducted Eliya from the shelter, who pulled him out from among all the dead bodies, and loaded him into the pickup truck like he was a sack of potatoes, and was there on the truck to Gaza — the IDF took him down,” she says.
Aboud pans the camera to Cohen, and asks what he has to say about it. He thanks God, and says more terrorists are “next in line.”
The military and Shin Bet announced earlier today that Hassan Mahmoud Hassan Hussein, a commander for the terror group’s elite Nukhba force, was killed in a recent airstrike in the Gaza Strip.
Hussein, alongside another Nukhba force commander, Muhammad Abu Attawi, led the attack on a bomb shelter near Re’im where partygoers from the Nova music festival had fled to.
Four people, including Cohen, were taken hostage alive from the shelter and 16 were murdered. Seven managed to survive and were later rescued.