A 50-year-old man was found without any life signs on Saturday night on Komemiyut Street in Kiryat Yam. United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Shlomi Mishkovsky who responded to the scene said: “Together with other volunteers and an ambulance team from United Hatzalah, we arrived at the location where the man was found, but unfortunately there was nothing left for us to do except to declare his death at the scene due to the severity of his injuries.”

Also on Saturday night, an 18-year-old man was stabbed on Shmuel Landau Street in Netanya.  The man was transported to the Laniado hospital by a Magen David Adom ambulance for treatment. Police have opened an investigation into the circumstances behind both instances.

Two incidents of stone-throwing took place on Saturday night, one of them was near Ofra and the second took place near Kiryat Arba. In both instances, no injuries were reported but damage was caused to cars.

A 17-year-old girl and her seven-year-old brother fell from a balcony at their house on Etzel Street in Ashkelon. The siblings were taken to Barzilai hospital for treatment and suffering from various injuries.

Dozens of Firefighters and security personnel were called to the Eshkol region to help put out a large brush fire that blazed near the greenhouses outside of Moshav Ein Besor near the Gaza Strip. It is suspected that the blaze was caused by a balloon bomb launched from Gaza.

IAF planes struck several targets in the northern Gaza Strip on Friday in response to explosive devices and hand grenades that were thrown at security forces from Hamas positions located there during the weekly Friday riots that have been ongoing in the Strip since March 30th. Some 20,000 protesters participated in the violent riots that included Molotov cocktails and bombs being thrown at security forces, as well as burning tires and the cutting of the border fence. According to Arab media, three protesters were killed and another 376 injured during the riots.

Qatar transferred money to Israel via the United Nations in order to cover the electricity bill of the Gaza Strip. Qatar also plans to transfer money directly to the Gaza Strip.

Security forces attempted to install large fans near the Kibbutz of Kerem Shalom in order to prevent smoke from entering the airspace of the Kibbutz so as to protect the residents from the poisonous fumes that have adversely affected residents in the southern city for the past six months due to the protests. The attempt to divert the smoke on Friday failed.

A 13-year-old boy went missing in the Yarkon river near Segula intersection on Friday. Search and Rescue teams conducted an exhaustive search but so far have not located the missing teen.

A 32-year-old motorcyclist was killed following an accident just prior to Shabbos near the industrial park of Moshav Goren

A 25-year-old man was critically  injured after he fell from heights on HaRav Unterman Street in Petach Tikvah on Shabbos morning.

A 40-year-old woman was seriously injured after her motorcycle was hit on Sderot Yisrael Pollack in Kiryat Gat.

An 80-year-old woman is in serious condition after she drowned in a pool in one of the hotels near the Dead Sea.

A 26-year-old woman is in critical condition after she was hit by a car on HaHagana Boulevard in Haifa.

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)