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After a night of unrest, with street fighting, fires, and clashes between protesters and police in its major cities, Israel is preparing to enter a new era following the firing of Defense Minister Yoav Galad by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The Israeli army denied today that it hit a clinic in the northern part of the Gaza Strip during an ongoing polio vaccination campaign.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said today he understood the anguish and suffering of those affected by the floods earlier this week, but condemned “all forms of violence” after the incidents that marked his visit as well as King Philip VI’s visit to one of the affected towns.

Desperation continues to grow in some parts of Valencia on Friday, which have been isolated since devastating floods hit on Tuesday, leaving at least 205 people dead.

Spain's Defense Minister Margarita Robles admitted that some areas remain inaccessible three days after the storm.

Kiev has announced a fresh mobilization drive as Moscow seized the mining hub of Selydove and the U.S. said some North Korean troops were in Russia's Kursk region, warning that thousands more were on their way.

Gaza's civil defense agency said Tuesday that an overnight Israeli airstrike killed more than 93 people in a residential building in the northern district of Beit Lahia.

"The number of martyrs in the massacre of the Abu Nasr family home in Beit Lahia has risen to 93 martyrs, and about 40 are still missing under the rubble," agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP in an updated toll.

At 3 a.m. on the morning of October 28th, 1940, Emanuele Grazzi, the Italian ambassador to Greece, delivered an ultimatum from Benito Mussolini to Prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas. “Il Duce” demanded that Metaxas allow the Italian army free passage to enter and occupy strategic sites in Greece unopposed.

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) warned yesterday (Saturday) that the situation in the northern Gaza Strip is “catastrophic”, with “intensive military operations taking place in and around health infrastructure.”

Israeli warplanes carried out more than 17 airstrikes Wednesday on the Lebanese capital Beirut's southern suburbs in one of the most intense bombardments since the Israel-Hezbollah war broke out on Sept. 23.