April 22, 2024 - Israel-Hamas war

Israeli police have arrested two suspects after three people were lightly injured in a car ramming attack in Jerusalem on Monday morning.

Police said their forces searched the area after what they described as a "ramming terror attack" on Mordechai Tekhelet Street at 8 a.m. local time (1 a.m. ET).

After the incident, two people -- whom the police called terrorists -- emerged from the car holding weapons and then discarded them as they fled the scene on foot. The police said that they had failed to open fire before running away. 

The Shaare Zedek Medical Center said earlier it had admitted a 21-year-old man and a 15-year-old boy for mild injuries following the attack.

European foreign leaders called for sanctions against Iran as well as Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank on Monday, ahead of an EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting. 

EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell said ministers would discuss sanctions on Iran, explaining he hopes “all of them will agree” to “a great package of sanctions.” 

The US has already widened sanctions on Iran after it launched more than 300 missiles and drones toward Israel in a retaliatory attack for a deadly suspected Israeli airstrike on its consulate in Damascus.

Borrell said sanctions against “violent settlers” in the West Bank should also be considered. 

Violence by Israeli settlers and troops in the West Bank has surged during Israel's war in Gaza, prompting more sanctions by the US and EU.

Belgian Foreign Affairs Minister Hadja Lahbib said the ministers would preview new sanctions against Iran and that sanctions against West Bank settlers should be considered “in order not to suffer from double standards.” 

Swedish foreign minister Tobias Billstrom said the meeting provides “an opportunity to show our support for Israel, because of the Iranian attack against Israel, which we condemn.” 

A man has been arrested in connection with the killing of a 14-year-old Israeli boy in the occupied West Bank, Israeli police said Monday

Hundreds of Israeli settlers surrounded Palestinian villages and attacked residents across the occupied West Bank after Binyamin Achimair, who had gone missing from a settlement on April 12, was found dead. The Israeli military said he was killed in a “terrorist attack.”

In a joint operation by the Shin Bet, the Israel Police and the Israel Defense Forces, 21-year-old Ahmed Duavsha was arrested.

The head of the Israeli military's intelligence branch has resigned over his unit's failures during the October 7 Hamas attacks.

Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva, who has served in the IDF for 38 years, is the first senior military figure to resign over the October 7 attacks, when Hamas fighters stormed the border into Israel.

The attack was widely seen as a major Israeli intelligence failure, with several top defense and security officials coming forward in October to take responsibility to some extent for missteps that led to the attacks.

Following the attack that caught Israel off-guard, Haliva admitted to an “intelligence failure” by his unit in not detecting Hamas' plans.

Three people were mildly wounded in Jerusalem on Monday morning after a vehicle rammed into them on a street, Israeli police say. 

Police said that three pedestrians were hit by a moving vehicle in a "ramming terror attack" on Mordechai Tekhelet Street at 8 a.m. local time. 

After the incident, two people emerged from the car holding weapons and then discarded them as they fled the scene on foot. The police said that they had failed to open fire before running away. 

The Shaarey Zedek Medical Center said it admitted a 21-year-old man and a 15-year-old boy for mild injuries following the attack. 

The Israeli military has ended one of its largest offensives in the occupied West Bank since October 7, saying it killed 10 "terrorists" in the Nur al-Shams refugee camp.

At least 14 people, including a child, were killed in the raid, the Palestinian Health Ministry and Wafa news agency said.

Images from the raid — one of the IDF's largest in the West Bank since October 7 — show concrete slabs and rubble strewn across the area.

Elsewhere in the West Bank, Israeli soldiers shot and killed two Palestinians near Hebron on Sunday, in what the military says was an attempted attack on soldiers.

Meanwhile, an ambulance driver was killed in the West Bank on Saturday when his vehicle was hit by gunfire while transporting Palestinians wounded in an attack by Israeli settlers.

Violence by Israeli settlers and troops in the West Bank has surged during Israel's war in Gaza. The spike has prompted more sanctions by the US and EU.

Here are the latest developments in the region:

The US Central Command (CENTCOM) conducted another round of aid airdrops in northern Gaza on Sunday,

CENTCOM said the operation brings the total amount of aid delivered by air in Gaza to nearly 1,001 tons since March 2.

The latest operation, which included four US Air Force C-13 aircraft, airdropped 50,688 meals.

One bundle landed in the sea during the operation.

Some context: The United Nations and aid agencies have questioned the effectiveness of airdrops from several countries, saying that land crossings are the best means of aid delivery to the enclave.

Israeli soldiers shot and killed two Palestinians at Beit Einun Junction, near Hebron, in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, in what the military says was an attempted attack on soldiers.

The Israel Defense Forces said that two men arrived at the junction, and one of them “attempted to stab IDF soldiers that were in the area, who responded with live fire and neutralized him.”

Another man then “opened fire at the soldiers, who responded with live fire and neutralized him too,” the military said.

The Palestinian Health Ministry in the West Bank named the two men as 19-year-old Muhammad Jabarin and 18-year-old Musa Jabarin.

A video believed to be of the incident, which CNN cannot independently verify, shows one man ducking behind a large concrete block — often placed by the Israeli military at checkpoints and junctions to create barriers and block roads.

The man does not appear to move from his location and it is not immediately clear in the video if he is holding anything in his hands. After about 30 seconds, gunfire is heard and the man falls to the ground.

There was only one man in the video.

Violence by Israeli settlers and troops in the occupied West Bank has surged during Israel's war in Gaza. 

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Sunday, according to State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller.

Blinken and Gallant discussed efforts to protect Israel’s security, enable hostage negotiations, and increase humanitarian aid to Palestinian civilians in Gaza, the readout said.

Blinken also “underscored the importance of measures to de-escalate tensions in the region.”