Terrorist organization Hezbollah published a video on Friday with aerial footage of numerous targets inside Israel including the IDF Central Command in Tel Aviv with text that read: “Any attack on Lebanon, any aerial bombardment on Lebanon, any artillery strike against Lebanon and we will retaliate on this. If you dare, you will be sorry.”

Arab media claims that 28 terrorists who threatened IDF forces on the gaza border were shot and injured by the IDF during Friday’s protests. During the protest that has become a weekly event on the Muslim holy day of the week, some 12,000 violent protesters participated in a number of locations along the border fence with Gaza.

Just as Shabbos began, the Foreign Ministry of Syria filed a formal complaint with the United Nations regarding the attack that took place on Thursday south of Damascus. In the complaint the Syrians wrote that “The aggression by Israel will only delay the Syrian crisis.”

A 27-year-old man was found lifeless in his Hadera apartment on Shabbos. Criminal investigators from the Police were dispatched to the location and have begun a full investigation.

A 30-year-old electric bicycle rider was critically injured on Friday after his bicycle slipped in the alleyway of Nachal Sheni street in Eilat.

A 50-year-old woman and a 35-year-old man were moderately injured and another three people were lightly injured in a motor vehicle accident that took place on Highway Six near the Ben Shemen interchange on Shabbos.

Eleven people were injured on Friday in a motor vehicle accident that took place on Highway 79 near the town of Adi in the Jezreel Valley.

12 people, many of them children, were injured when a man sprayed a crowd with pepper spray on Shabbos in Haifa. Parents of some of the children were also injured. It is unclear the motive of the man who assaulted the crowd, but police have in custody a 27-year-old suspect who was interrogated after the incident. Magen David Adom and United Hatzalah emergency response teams treated the injured who were transported by ambulances to Rambam and Carmel Hospitals.

Israeli police arrested five people for producing a “natural festival” without a license. The festival involved some 150 youngsters who attended the event while organizers failed to obtain a permit or arrange for proper security or medical coverage for a large-scale event. Alcohol was also sold during the event without any supervision, which is also against the law.

Some 85,000 people participated in violent protests in Paris, France. The protest was against the rising cost-of-living in the country. In what is being called “The Protest of The Yellow Vests”, some 90 people were reported injured and 200 were arrested by police. Some of the protesters lit a building and vehicles on fire and caused the closure of 19 Metro (train) stations.  The protest was sparked by the increase in the taxes on gasoline. This is the third consecutive week that these protests have taken place.

A car exploded on Yisroel Galilee Street in Rishon Lezion. Fire Fighters were called to the scene but thankfully no injuries were reported.

Three Arabs were arrested on Friday for allegedly hunting and poaching hedgehogs near the town of Nehusha in the Matte Yehuda region. The Arabs were caught returning from a hunting session and were in Israel illegally.

Israel received enough rainfall in the coastal region over the course of Shabbos to flood major streets in the city of Hadera and other towns in the vicinity.

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)