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Arab News says Israeli PM Naftali Bennett’s statements rejecting outside interference in the management of the affairs of Al-Aqsa Mosque sparked outrage among Jordanians and Palestinians.

The Independent says a farmer has discovered a stone statue of an ancient Canaanite goddess in the Gaza Strip dating back to the late Bronze Age.

Arab News says a projectile fired from Lebanon hit an open area in Israel on Monday and Israeli artillery targeted an area where the attack was launched, the Israeli military said.

Arab News say for journalist Amer Matar a decade-long search for his younger brother has defined him and changed the course of his life.

Aljazeera says Israel has carried out air raids in central Gaza for the second time this week, with its military saying its fighter jets attacked an underground complex used to produce rocket engines.

The Gaza Strip has been rocked by Israeli airstrikes early Tuesday in response to a rocket fired from the Palestinian enclave as tensions rise following a weekend of bloodshed around a Jerusalem holy site.

Arab News says Israeli soldiers on Sunday shot and killed two Palestinian women as troops responded to Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s call for them to go on the “offensive.”

France24 says at least two people were killed Thursday and several wounded in a shooting spree in the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv.

Arab News says trade in the amphetamine-type stimulant captagon in the Middle East grew exponentially in 2021 to top $5 billion, posing an increasing health and security risk to the region, a report said.

France24 says five people were killed in gun attacks Tuesday near the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv, emergency responders said, in the third fatal gun or knife spree in the Jewish state in a week.