CAIRO -- Four Egyptians and 12 foreigners were still missing after a boat sank in the Red Sea earlier in the day, Governor of Egypt's Red Sea Province Amr Hanafy said on Monday.
A total of 28 people have been rescued and are "in good health," while search operations and investigations into the incident are still ongoing, Hanafy said in a statement. (Egypt-Boat Sinking-Missing)
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BEIRUT -- At least 36 people were killed and 17 others injured on Monday in Israeli airstrikes on southern and eastern Lebanon, according to the official National News Agency (NNA).
Israeli airstrikes on the eastern Lebanese governorate of Baalbek-Hermel killed 11 people, including eight in a residential apartment in the village of Nabi Chit and three others in Hermel, the NNA reported. (Lebanon-Israeli Airstrikes-Casualties)
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JERUSALEM -- Israeli Air Force jets on Monday conducted intelligence-based strikes on Syrian "smuggling routes" along the Syria-Lebanon border, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement on Monday.
The IDF noted that the routes were used for smuggling weapons to Hezbollah in Lebanon. (Syria-Israeli Airstrikes-Border)
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RAMALLAH -- A Palestinian teenager and a young man were shot dead on Sunday night by the Israeli army during a raid on the town of Ya'bad, south of Jenin, in the northern West Bank, according to a Palestinian medical official on Monday.
Director of Jenin Governmental Hospital, Wissam Bakr, told Xinhua that a boy was shot with live ammunition in the chest and face, and another young man was shot in the head and taken to a medical center in the town. (West Bank-Israeli Raid-Death Toll)
