It was 3:00 am and Jonathan Karten had just arrived with friends at his apartment from a party when they heard what sounded like a fighter jet swooping in over the sea towards Tel Aviv.

The jet turned out to be a drone that crashed into an apartment block nearby Friday, killing one man and injuring a number of others.

Yemen's Huthi rebels have claimed the attack, that stunned Israel as it battles the Gaza war.

The blast from the drone strike smashed windows all along Shalom Aleichem Street where the drone fell.

Israel threatened reprisals Friday after a drone claimed by Yemen's Huthi rebels penetrated its vaunted air defences and killed a civilian in a Tel Aviv apartment building near a US embassy annexe.

The attack drew condemnation from UN chief Antonio Guterres and an appeal for "maximum restraint" to avoid "further escalation in the region".

The pre-dawn strike came hours before Israel suffered another blow, a ruling by the UN's top court that its occupation of the Palestinian territories was "illegal" and needed to end as soon as possible.

Planes were gradually taking off again Saturday after global airlines, banks and media were thrown into turmoil by one of the biggest IT crashes in recent years, caused by an update to an antivirus programme.

Passenger crowds had swelled at airports on Friday as dozens of flights were cancelled after an update to a programme operating on Microsoft Windows crashed systems worldwide.

By Saturday, officials said the situation had returned virtually to normal in airports across Germany and France, as Paris prepared to welcome millions for the Olympic Games starting on Friday.

Yemen's Iran-backed Huthi rebels claimed a drone attack on Tel Aviv on Friday that left one person dead, saying it marked a "new phase" in its operations against Israel.

The rebels fired a "new drone called 'Yafa', which is capable of bypassing the enemy's interception systems," their spokesman, Yahya Saree, said on social media.

It struck "one of the important targets in the occupied Jaffa region, what is now called Israeli Tel Aviv," he said, adding "the operation has achieved its goals successfully".

Yemen's Iran-backed Huthi rebels said they fired a drone that caused an explosion in Tel Aviv early Friday that left one person dead, injured four and set off a new shock for Israel more than nine months into its war in Gaza.

The Israeli military said an initial investigation showed the blast was caused by "the falling of an aerial target" that did not set off alarms. It said air patrols had been stepped up.

The UN's top court, in a sweeping opinion on Friday, said that Israel's decades-long occupation of Palestinian territory was "illegal" and needed to end as soon as possible.

The advisory opinion by The Hague-based International Court of Justice was immediately slammed as a "decision of lies" by Israel, but welcomed by the Palestinian presidency, which called it "historic".

The poliovirus has been found in sewage samples from war-torn Gaza, the health ministries in the Hamas-run territory and Israel said Thursday.

The Gaza ministry said thousands of people living in crowded displaced persons' camps were now at risk of contracting the highly infectious disease that can cause deformities and paralysis.

UN agencies have been campaigning for four decades to eradicate polio, most often spread through sewage and contaminated water, but there has been a resurgence in recent years in Afghanistan and Pakistan and some isolated cases in Nigeria.

Said Khatib, a Palestinian photojournalist working for AFP, was awarded Spain's prestigious Mingote Prize on Thursday at a ceremony attended by King Felipe VI for a Gaza photograph taken in October 2023.

He was presented with the award by ABC newspaper, which runs Spain's vaunted journalism prize, for a picture of two children looking through the window of a car driving past rubble in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

Hundreds of Argentines gathered in Buenos Aires Thursday to demand justice for the attack on a Jewish community center that killed 85 people 30 years ago to the day.

Loved ones of victims held up photographs of the fallen and placed candles and roses at the site where a truck laden with explosives drove into the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) and detonated on July 18, 1994.

The deadliest attack in the South American country's history injured more than 300 people.

Argentina has the largest Jewish community in Latin America, with some 300,000 members.

The Israeli parliament voted Thursday to oppose a Palestinian state as an "existential threat", a day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told lawmakers the army had Hamas "by the throat".

The vote, which drew swift criticism from the Palestinian leadership and the international community, is largely symbolic but laid down a marker ahead of a planned address by Netanyahu to the US Congress next Wednesday.