Helicopters and jets operated by the Israeli regime have launched fresh attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip, less than a day after warplanes targeted facilities allegedly belonging to the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas.

On Thursday the government and the judge of Gibraltar announced Iran’s tanker is set to sail off the port of the British ruled Gibraltar. Iran’s Grace I tanker was later released later that day, this was followed by an American appeal to seize the Iranian tanker, despite all US pressures the tanker permitted to sail through the Gibraltar.

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has unveiled a warrant for the seizure of the Iran-operated Grace 1 supertanker a day after Gibraltar’s Supreme Court confirmed the release of the vessel.

The Iran-operated Grace 1 supertanker needs repairs, which may delay the vessel’s departure after Gibraltar’s Supreme Court confirmed the release of the vessel, according to a lawyer representing the ship’s captain.

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is to leave Tehran for Kuwait on Saturday, the Foreign Ministry’s spokesman announced. 

More than 30 Palestinians have been injured during anti-occupation protests near the fence separating the besieged Gaza Strip from the occupied Palestinian territories.

Israeli warplanes have conducted fresh airstrikes on the besieged Gaza Strip, shortly after Israeli troops attacked and injured dozens of Palestinians during anti-occupation protests near the fence separating the coastal sliver from the occupied territories.

The secretary general of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah says the Israeli military’s 33-day war on Lebanon in the summer of 2006 was aimed at creation of a new Middle East region, where the Tel Aviv regime would have performed the leading role.

Syrian government forces, supported by fighters from allied popular defense groups, have taken control of a number of villages in the southern countryside of the northwestern province of Idlib, reaching the outskirts of a major stronghold for foreign-sponsored Takfiri militants there.

Israel's attorney general says he intends to indict the regime’s welfare minister, Haim Katz, over corruption charges, the latest in a series of graft cases facing Israeli officials.