JERUSALEM -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Wednesday that the military is seizing additional territory in southern Gaza to establish a new security corridor for Israel.

"Last night in the Gaza Strip, we shifted gears. The IDF (Israel Defense Forces) is seizing territory, striking militants, and destroying infrastructure," Netanyahu said in a video statement. (Israel-Gaza Territory-Seizure)

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DAMASCUS -- Israeli warplanes carried out a series of airstrikes on Wednesday evening, targeting multiple locations across Syria, including the outskirts of the capital Damascus, as well as areas near the Hama and Homs provinces, according to Syrian state media.

SANA, the country's official news agency, reported that Israeli strikes hit the vicinity of the Scientific Research Center building in the Barzeh district of Damascus. Additional strikes reportedly targeted the outskirts of the central city of Hama. (Israel-Syria-Attacks)

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GAZA/JERUSALEM -- At least 19 Palestinians, including nine children, were killed by an Israeli airstrike on a UN clinic in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza on Wednesday, the Palestinian official news agency WAFA reported.

An Israeli aircraft bombed a clinic affiliated with the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East in the refugee camp, which shelters displaced people, WAFA said. (Gaza-Israeli Airstrike-UN Clinic)

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TEHRAN -- Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa of Bahrain expressed a mutual commitment to improving relations between their nations during a phone call on Wednesday, according to a statement released by the Iranian president's office.

The conversation, which included an exchange of greetings for the recent Eid al-Fitr holiday, represents a tentative step toward reconciliation between the two countries, whose diplomatic ties remain severed. (Iran-Bahrain-Ties) Enditem

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