The Emirati request required that the team, arriving by boat, receive precedence in entry to the Ashdod Port, as well as an exemption for customs payments.

"The takeover of academia by politics is the beginning of the end of democracy," VERA chairman and president of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev said.

According to the residents, no one is dealing with the new threat. 

This decision follows a tense phone call with US President Joe Biden, who pressed Netanyahu to advance a hostage deal and a ceasefire in Gaza.

Le Parisien noted that Chikirou shared on a private social media account a photo of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh along with a caption written by Haniyeh's son, eulogizing him.

A senior US official was cited by CNN as saying the Russian aims to arm the Houthis were "antithetical to the goals we are pursuing."

There were no reports of casualties from the barrage. However, KAN news reported that a fire broke out in the moshav of Beit Hillel due to the launch. 

Al Islah was deemed a terrorist group in the UAE and was disbanded in 2013.