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Israeli Officer Kills Palestinian Assailant in West Bank, Police Say 

Israeli security forces are pictured during a military operation in the occupied West Bank city of Hawara, on December 2, 2022. (AFP)
Israeli security forces are pictured during a military operation in the occupied West Bank city of Hawara, on December 2, 2022. (AFP)
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Israeli Officer Kills Palestinian Assailant in West Bank, Police Say 

Israeli security forces are pictured during a military operation in the occupied West Bank city of Hawara, on December 2, 2022. (AFP)
Israeli security forces are pictured during a military operation in the occupied West Bank city of Hawara, on December 2, 2022. (AFP)

An Israeli officer shot dead a Palestinian assailant in the occupied West Bank on Friday, border police said, an incident which the Palestinians denounced as an execution. 

The man had stabbed and lightly wounded a border policeman after which another officer overpowered him. The man then fought with the officer and tried to snatch his rifle before the officer shot him dead, border police said in a statement. 

The Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed his death. The Palestinian Foreign Ministry said it was tantamount to an execution meant to escalate already spiraling violence in the territory, which Palestinians seek for a state. 

Border police distributed a photo of a knife on the ground and another of a border policeman with what appears to be a stabbing wound to his head. 

A video circulating on social media showed an officer holding a man in a head-lock by a road as two other men try to wrestle him away. The man then appears to strike the officer and attempt to take hold of his rifle before the officer pulls out a handgun and shoots him several times as he falls to the ground. 

The video, taken from a distance as vehicles cross the frame, could not be independently verified by Reuters. It does not show what had transpired prior and whether the man had been holding a knife or any other weapon before it was filmed. 

A border police spokesman did not respond to Reuters requests for comment on the incident, which took place close to the city of Nablus. 

The city, along with nearby Jenin, has seen intensified and often fatal Israeli military operations, since a spate of deadly Palestinian street attacks in Israeli cities in March. 

The worst violence in the West Bank in years has deepened diplomatic stagnation since US-brokered peace talks aimed at establishing a Palestinian state there, in Gaza and in East Jerusalem, collapsed in 2014. 

The incoming Israeli government under Benjamin Netanyahu looks likely to include far-right politicians who oppose Palestinian statehood and want the Palestinian Authority (PA), which wields limited self-rule in the West Bank, dismantled. 

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Israel Army Chief Says Lebanon Fighting Could Take 'Many' Days

TOPSHOT - A man walks past a building damaged after an Israeli airstrike in Beirut's southern suburb neighborhood of Haret Hreik on March 2, 2026. (Photo by Ibrahim AMRO / AFP)
TOPSHOT - A man walks past a building damaged after an Israeli airstrike in Beirut's southern suburb neighborhood of Haret Hreik on March 2, 2026. (Photo by Ibrahim AMRO / AFP)
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Israel Army Chief Says Lebanon Fighting Could Take 'Many' Days

TOPSHOT - A man walks past a building damaged after an Israeli airstrike in Beirut's southern suburb neighborhood of Haret Hreik on March 2, 2026. (Photo by Ibrahim AMRO / AFP)
TOPSHOT - A man walks past a building damaged after an Israeli airstrike in Beirut's southern suburb neighborhood of Haret Hreik on March 2, 2026. (Photo by Ibrahim AMRO / AFP)

Israel's military chief Eyal Zamir said fighting against Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, which began early Monday, could take "many" more days.

"We have launched an offensive campaign against Hezbollah," Zamir said in a video shared by the military on Monday, hours after rocket fire claimed by Hezbollah prompted a wave of Israeli strikes on Lebanon. "We must be prepared for several days of fighting, many."

Israel carried out the airstrikes in Lebanon after Hezbollah launched missiles and drones towards Israel to avenge the killing of Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

More than a dozen explosions rocked Beirut, in the most intensive strikes on the southern suburbs since a war between Israel and Hezbollah in 2024.

People fled on foot and by car, clogging the roads, after the series of strikes began around 2:40 a.m. (0040 GMT).

The Israeli military said it had begun striking Hezbollah targets across Lebanon, including ⁠senior Hezbollah members ⁠in Beirut’s southern suburbs.

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Iran War Spreads Across Region

Smoke rises after Israeli strikes in Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon, March 2, 2026. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir
Smoke rises after Israeli strikes in Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon, March 2, 2026. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir
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Iran War Spreads Across Region

Smoke rises after Israeli strikes in Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon, March 2, 2026. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir
Smoke rises after Israeli strikes in Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon, March 2, 2026. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

Israel bombarded Lebanon on Monday, expanding conflict across the region after the massive Israel-US attack on Iran.

Israeli forces pounded targets across Lebanon, including Beirut’s southern suburbs, after Hezbollah fired rockets towards Israel in retaliation for the killing of Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei.

US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have urged Iranians to overthrow the government in Iran.

In a video address, Trump urged Iranian security forces "to lay down your arms and receive full immunity or face certain death."

"It will be certain death," he repeated. "It won't be pretty."

In this image provided by US Central Command, an F/A-18E Super Hornet aircraft, attached to Strike Fighter Squadron 37, lands on the flight deck of the world's largest aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), while operating in support of Operation Epic Fury, on March 1, 2026. (US Navy via AP)

As the American and Israeli airstrikes kept hitting the country, top Iranian security official Ali Larijani said on X: “We will not negotiate with the United States.”

Iran's first retaliatory strikes on Saturday hit all the Gulf states apart from mediator Oman.

On Sunday, Oman's commercial port of Duqm was hit by two drones, injuring a foreign worker, the Oman News Agency said.

Three ships were also attacked in the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday after Iran had previously declared the strategic waterway was closed, sending global oil prices spiking.

The Revolutionary Guards claimed to strike the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, but the Pentagon said the "missiles launched didn't even come close."

Trump said that US military strikes had sunk nine Iranian naval vessels and partially destroyed its navy headquarters.

Iran's retaliatory strikes in the Gulf have killed at least four people and wounded dozens of others.

More than 200 people have been killed since the start of the strikes that killed Khamenei and other senior leaders, Iranian leaders have said.

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Israel Hits Lebanon after Hezbollah Fire

Cars sit in traffic as residents flee Israeli airstrikes in Dahiyeh, a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, early Monday, March 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
Cars sit in traffic as residents flee Israeli airstrikes in Dahiyeh, a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, early Monday, March 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
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Israel Hits Lebanon after Hezbollah Fire

Cars sit in traffic as residents flee Israeli airstrikes in Dahiyeh, a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, early Monday, March 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
Cars sit in traffic as residents flee Israeli airstrikes in Dahiyeh, a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, early Monday, March 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Israel carried out airstrikes in Lebanon on Monday after Hezbollah launched missiles and drones towards Israel to avenge the killing of Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

More than a dozen explosions rocked Beirut, in the most intensive strikes on the southern suburbs since a war between Israel and Hezbollah in 2024.

People fled on foot and by car, clogging the roads, after the series of strikes began around 2:40 a.m. (0040 GMT).

The Israeli military said it had begun striking Hezbollah targets across Lebanon, including ⁠senior Hezbollah members ⁠in Beirut’s southern suburbs.

"Hezbollah opened a campaign against Israel overnight, and is fully responsible for any escalation," Israeli Chief of the General Staff, Eyal Zamir, said in a statement.

The Israeli military issued a warning ordering residents of dozens of villages in southern and eastern Lebanon to evacuate.

"Hezbollah's actions force the IDF (army) to act against it... For your safety, evacuate your homes immediately and move at least 1,000 meters (0.6 miles) away from your village to open areas," army spokeswoman Ella Waweya said in a statement on X.

The Israeli military said several projectiles that crossed from Lebanon fell in open areas and one was intercepted by the Israeli airforce.

"No ⁠injuries or damages were reported," it said.

Hezbollah said it had targeted an Israeli military missile defense facility south of the city of Haifa in revenge for "the pure blood" of Khamenei and in response to what it described as repeated Israeli attacks.

It was the first time the group has carried out such an attack since the 2024 war.

"The resistance leadership has always emphasized that the continuation of Israeli attacks and the assassination of our leaders, youth, and people gives us the right to defend ourselves and respond at the appropriate time and place," Hezbollah said in a statement.

Since a US-backed ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon in 2024, Israel has carried out regular strikes against what it has identified as Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, accusing the group of seeking to rearm.

It was Israel's first attack on the southern suburbs since it killed the group's top military official, ⁠Ali Tabtabai, in November.

Israel also ⁠carried out airstrikes in southern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon, Lebanese security sources said.

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said the firing of projectiles from south Lebanon was irresponsible, calling it a suspicious act that jeopardized Lebanon's security.

Without naming Hezbollah, Salam vowed to "stop the perpetrators and protect the Lebanese people.”

Salam will convene an emergency meeting on Monday "to discuss the developments... and to take the necessary measures,” his office said in a statement.

Lebanon's presidency said on Saturday it had been told by the US ambassador that Israel would not escalate against Lebanon as long as there are no hostile acts from the Lebanese side.