Jordan has turned down a Hamas request to open a public relations office in that country.

** When the convoy of UN Secretary-General Bank ki-Moon traveled through N. Gaza, families of imprisoned terrorists threw shoes and rocks at it, booing the UN leader.

11:20: Due to severe overcrowding, HaEmek Hospital in Afula announced its emergency room is diverting, instructing MDA to take patients elsewhere.

** Russia announces it will not stop selling armaments to Syria.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)