Gaza rescuers said sixteen people were killed Wednesday in Israeli strikes across the besieged Palestinian territory where Israel intensified its operations this month.

Iran has executed a man convicted of spying for Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, the judiciary said on Wednesday.

The U.N. on Wednesday condemned a U.S.-backed aid system in Gaza after 47 people were injured during a chaotic food distribution, where the Israeli military said it did not open fire at crowds.

Lebanon's health ministry said an Israeli strike on south Lebanon killed one man on Tuesday evening, the latest attack despite a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.

Israel's Defense Minister Israel Katz said Wednesday that fighter jets had carried out strikes on Houthi targets at the airport in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, a day after the group fired two projectiles at Israel.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Tuesday began a two-day visit to Oman, which is mediating ongoing nuclear talks between Tehran and Washington.

EU chief Ursula von der Leyen denounced as "abhorrent" Israel's deadly wave of strikes on civilian facilities in Gaza including a school-turned-shelter, during a call with Jordan's King Abdullah II on Tuesday.

"The expansion of Israel's military operations in Gaza targeting civilian infrastructure, among them a school that served as a shelter for displaced Palestinian families, killing civilians, including children, is abhorrent," von der Leyen said, according to a European Commission readout of the call.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to bring home all the hostages being held in Gaza, "the living and the dead", but made no mention of a proposed deal that Hamas has said is on the table.

"If we don't achieve it today, we will achieve it tomorrow, and if not tomorrow, then the day after tomorrow. We are not giving up," he said of the duty to free the captives in a speech Monday to close out Jerusalem Day. "We intend to bring them all back, the living and the dead."

North Korea has slammed U.S. President Donald Trump's "Golden Dome" missile shield plan as a "very dangerous" threat that aims to weaponize space, state media reported Tuesday.

Pyongyang's foreign ministry has issued a memorandum "to inform the international community that the U.S. establishment of a new missile defense system is a very dangerous 'threatening initiative' aimed at threatening the strategic security of the nuclear weapons states," the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported.

Salman Rushdie said Monday he was "pleased" with the maximum 25-year jail sentence handed to a man who tried to kill him with a knife at a New York cultural center in 2022.

"I was pleased that he got the maximum available, and hopefully he uses it to reflect upon his deeds," Rushdie told BBC radio in an interview.