Palestinian security forces clash with militants in West Bank At least one person was killed as Palestinian security forces clashed with Palestinian militants and set up checkpoints on Saturday in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, residents and medics said. Gunshots and explosions could be heard in the city, where friction has risen in recent days between militant factions and the Western-backed Palestinian Authority (PA) of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas following raids by the PA. Residents identified the man who was killed as a militant though none of the factions immediately confirmed his affiliation. The PA's security branch said…

WESTERN PERSPECTIVE Ukrainian drones strike Russia as Kyiv reels from consecutive massive air attacks Ukrainian drone strikes on southern Russia killed a 9-year-old boy and set fire to a major oil terminal, officials said Saturday, the day after Moscow launched a massive aerial attack on its neighbor that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said was one of the heaviest bombardments of the country’s energy sector in the nearly three-year war. The boy died when a drone struck his family’s home outside Belgorod, a Russian city near the border with Ukraine, local Gov. Vyacheslav Gladkov reported on Saturday morning on the Telegram…

Dutch court rejects bid to stop arms exports to Israel A Dutch court on Friday rejected a bid by 10 pro-Palestinian NGOs to stop the Netherlands exporting weapons to Israel and trading with Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territories. The Hague district court stressed that the state has some leeway in its policies and courts should not rush to step in. "The interim relief court finds that there is no reason to impose a total ban on the export of military and dual-use goods on the state," it said in a statement. The plaintiffs, citing high civilian casualties in Israel's…

RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE Large-scale missile strikes reported across Ukraine Numerous missile strikes were reported across Ukraine on Friday, causing power outages in Kiev and several other cities. Energy infrastructure in all parts of Ukraine has come “under a massive attack,” Kiev’s energy minister German Galuschenko said. Power engineers are working to minimize the negative effects of the bombardment, he added. According to accounts on social media, explosions have been heard in Odessa, Ivano-Frankovsk and other regions. Strikes have been reported in the town of Burtysh in Ivano-Frankovsk Region, where a key power plant is located. Ukrainian media have reported emergency power…