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Six people were wounded, two seriously, when a man began attacking the crowd with a knife at the Gay Pride parade in Jerusalem on Thursday.
Officials arrested an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man for allegedly stabbing six people at a Gay Pride event in Jerusalem. Nathan Frandino reports.
Israeli security forces and police officers gather at the site of a reported stabbing attack at a shopping centre in Beit Kama in southern Israel. IMAGES
With the war in Gaza entering its fifth month, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warns that if Israel pressed into the southern city of Rafah, as it reportedly plans to do, it "would exponentially increase what is already a humanitarian nightmare with untold regional consequences." "It is time for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire and the unconditional release of all hostages", he adds at the top of a speech to the General Assembly presenting his 2024 priorities. SOUNDBITE
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets Israeli President Isaac Herzog in Jerusalem during a Middle-East tour to push for a ceasefire as the Gaza war enters its fifth month. IMAGES