The ministry's director general and another top official, both of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, were caught on tape threatening to release materials against a local religious council head if he did not cancel a fellow party member's dismissal hearing

In addition to the strikes, the IDF is behind roughly 400 controlled demolitions across southern Lebanon, some of which have flattened entire villages, according to Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam

A letter signed by nearly a third of Labour MPs urged the British government to 'take urgent, concrete action to counter the escalation of violations against Palestinians,' citing the Israeli finance minister's vow last month to clear a Palestinian village in the West Bank