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Israeli military air strikes injured five people across the Gaza Strip overnight on Thursday.
Medics told Ma’an that three people were seriously injured in an air strike on the northern city of Beit Lahiya.
An Israeli army spokeswoman said the military targeted the launch site of a rocket in northern Gaza around 10 p.m. Thursday.
Shortly after, air strikes hit central and southern Gaza, and witnesses told Ma’an two Palestinians from the Al-Tuffah neighborhood of Gaza City were injured.
A senior security official in Arhab district, 40 kilometer northeast of the capital Sana’a, said that governmental warplanes attacked governmental soldiers who refused to fight pro revolution tribes in the district.
The official said that more than 240 republican guard forces in Sama’e region of Arhab refused to attack tribes with heavy artillery and were negotiating with them on surrendering the Sama’e military base of the republican guards.
In retaliation, government air forces attacked the gates of the camp killing more than 200 republican guards and at least three-dozen fighters.
Syrian security forces shell city at heart of anti-Assad protests, surround major hospital to prevent the wounded from reaching it.
Over 124 people were killed Sunday in a fresh government crackdown on pro-democracy protesters across Syria, activists said.
At least 97 people were killed when the Syrian army stormed the flashpoint central city of Hama, activists told the German Press Agency.
“Hama is used to massacres by the Assad family, but we tell this tyrant the more you kill us the more we are determined to oust you,” the activist, who requested anonymity, told the German Press Agency by phone.
In 1982, a government crackdown caused the deaths of up to 20,000 people in the city, when the town’s Sunni population attempted to revolt against then president Hafez Assad’s minority Alawite sect.
The head of the Libyan rebel’s armed forces and two of his aides were killed by gunmen Thursday, the head of the rebel leadership said.
The death of Abdel Fattah Younes was announced at a press conference in the de facto rebel capital, Benghazi, by the head of the rebels’ National Transitional Council, Mustafa Abdul Jalil. He told reporters that rebel security had arrested the head of the group behind the killing.
Rebel security had arrested Younes and two of his aides early on Thursday from their operations room near the rebels’ eastern front.
Security officials said at the time that Younes was to be questioned about suspicions his family still had ties to Muammar Gaddafi’s regime.
Fighting has flared between Iranian forces and the Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK), which denied Iran’s claims that it sustained heavy casualties in attacks on one of its camps.
Iranian state media reported that the Revolutionary Guards had taken control of a PJAK rebel camp “near the Iraqi border” and killed, injured or captured dozens of PJAK fighters in the fight.