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Israeli football fans home after 'frightening' Amsterdam violence

Fresh off a flight home, Israeli football fans back from Amsterdam recalled on Friday clashes and violence they said targeted Jewish people following a Europa League match.

Kobi Eliyahu, 40, said people with their faces covered "waited (on) every single corner... it was very frightening to see that".

Another returning fan, Eliya Cohen, said that after the match between Israel's Maccabi Tel Aviv and Dutch team Ajax on Thursday, he saw "Muslims looking for Jews to beat them up" in central Amsterdam.

A fan wearing Maccabi Tel Aviv and Ajax scarves arriving at the Ben Gurion International Airport near Israel's Tel Aviv

US announces charges in alleged Iranian plot to assassinate Trump

US prosecutors announced charges on Friday in an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate former president Donald Trump and a prominent dissident Iranian-American journalist.

The foiled assassination plot on Trump was allegedly directed by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to avenge the death of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in 2020 in a US strike ordered by then-president Trump, the Justice Department said.

A Pakistani national with ties to Iran has been arrested in the United States for allegedly plotting to assassinate a US official

UN peacekeepers say Israel army damages south Lebanon position

UN peacekeepers on Friday accused the Israeli army of damaging one of their south Lebanon positions in a "deliberate and direct" action against their forces.

The incident which occurred on Thursday, is like "seven other similar incidents" carried out by the Israeli army, the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon said in a statement.

It "is not a matter of peacekeepers getting caught in the crossfire, but of deliberate and direct actions by the" Israeli army, it said.

UNIFIL peacekeepers in the Marjayoun area of southern Lebanon accompany Lebanese Red Cross ambulances during the war between Israel and Hezbollah

'Very serious': Israel's blows against Iran expose infiltration

A spate of recent intelligence successes by Israel against Iran and its allies have underlined the extent of Israel's infiltration of the establishment in Iran, causing major anxiety for its leadership, analysts say.

It remains a closely guarded secret how, and how deeply, Israel has infiltrated Iran's administration and security apparatus.

But analysts say Israel's recent successes -- including assassinations, targeted strikes and secret operations -- would be impossible without information being leaked at a high level.

Smoke rises from the ruins of a south Beirut building hit by a pre-dawn Israeli air strike just metres (yards) from a huge poster of slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah

PSG to curb political slogans in wake of 'Free Palestine' banner

Paris Saint-Germain say they will make sure there is no repeat of a midweek unfurling by fans of a banner proclaiming "Free Palestine".

The huge banner covered an entire section of the stadium at the Parc des Princes Wednesday night ahead of PSG's defeat at the hands of Atletico Madrid.

As well as the slogan "Free Palestine", the banner showed a bloodstained Palestinian flag, a gesticulating man with a keffiyeh scarf covering all his face except his eyes, the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem and a young boy wrapped in the Lebanese flag.

The 'Free Palestine' banner at Paris Saint-Germain

Israeli football supporters back home after Amsterdam violence

A plane bringing Israeli football supporters home from Amsterdam landed at Israel's Ben Gurion airport on Friday after a night of violence that Israeli and Dutch officials condemned as "anti-Semitic".

Dutch police said 62 arrests were made in connection with the violence, which erupted after a Europa League football tie between Amsterdam club Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv.

Israeli flag carrier El Al said it was sending six planes to the Netherlands to bring the fans home, after the first flight carrying evacuees landed on Friday afternoon, the Israel Airports Authority said.

The violence flared after the game between Maccabi Tel-Aviv and Amsterdam-based team Ajax

UN probe says women, children comprise the majority of Gaza war dead

The UN on Friday condemned the staggering number of civilians killed in Israel's war in Gaza, with women and children comprising nearly 70 percent of the thousands of fatalities it had managed to verify.

In a fresh report, slammed by Israel, the United Nations human rights office (OHCHR) detailed a raft of violations of international law since Hamas's deadly October 7 attack in Israel sparked the war in the Gaza Strip.

Gazan children stare at destruction from an Israeli strike on Nuseirat refugee camp

F-15 fighters arrive in Middle East: US military

American F-15 fighter planes arrived in the Middle East on Thursday, the US military said, after Washington announced the deployment of additional assets to the region in a warning to Iran.

"Today, US Air Force F-15E Strike Eagles from the 492nd Fighter Squadron, RAF Lakenheath, England, arrive in the US Central Command area of responsibility," the military command responsible for the Middle East said on social media.

The United States announced on November 1 that it was sending bombers, fighter and tanker aircraft and ballistic missile defense destroyers to the Middle East.

The United States announced on November 1 that it was sending weapons to the Middle East

France mulling new sanctions on Israeli settlers, minister says in West Bank

France is mulling new sanctions on those enabling the expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, regarded as illegal under international law, Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on a visit to the territory on Thursday.

"France has been a driving force to establish the first sanction regime at the European level targeting individuals or entities, either actors or accomplices of settlement activities", Barrot said after talks with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in Ramallah.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot (C) inspects cars torched in an attack by Israeli settlers on the West Bank town of Al-Bireh, adjacent to Ramallah

UN to consider 'enhanced protection' as Lebanon warns heritage at risk

The UN cultural agency UNESCO said Thursday it would consider enhanced protection of ancient sites in Lebanon after a wave of near-misses in strikes by Israel triggered an appeal by Lebanese lawmakers.

Several Israeli strikes in recent weeks on the eastern city of Baalbek and the southern city of Tyre -- both strongholds of Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah -- have hit close to ancient Roman ruins designated by UNESCO as World Heritage sites.

The Roman temples of Baalbek like just metres (yards) away from the site of an Israeli strike in Lebanon's main eastern city earlier this week.