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Here are Saturday’s latest updates:
■ The Israeli military rounded up dozens of Palestinians in the northern West Bank village of Faqqu’a after saying they shot a Palestinian man earlier on Saturday.
■ The Israeli military told Haaretz that an initial probe determined that a soldier who was filmed shooting a Palestinian man in the leg for no apparent reason earlier on Saturday had violated IDF rules of engagement.
■ Three Israeli settlers were filmed opening fire at homes on the outskirts of the Palestinian village of al-Mughayyir in the central West Bank, Palestinian reports said. No injuries were reported.
■ Two explosions from the sea were heard in Iran’s Qeshm Island, state media said.
■ An attack by the Iranian-backed Houthi militants in Yemen wounded two people in the Saudi port city of Jizan, the country’s Civil Defense Agency said.
■ Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian met the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi on the sidelines of a BRICS summit in New Delhi, signalling a thawing of relations between the countries divided by the war, as Iran and the UAE signed on to a statement calling for restraint in the Middle East.
■ Iran will continue blockading the Strait of Hormuz until the United States agrees to its conditions, the country’s Tasnim agency reported, citing a source close to Tehran’s negotiating team in its talks with Oman.
■ Iraq closed its al-Tayyib border area with Iran after discovering drone launch sites, two Iraqi military sources told Reuters. Saudi Arabia shut down its critical East-West oil pipeline following a drone attack from Iraq.
■ Two men attacked a 43-year-old woman wearing a Star of David in Berlin on Rosh Hashanah eve, wounding her with a broken bottle, Berlin police said. The woman was hospitalized after suffering several cuts to her hand, police said.
■ The U.S. Embassy in Abu Dhabi issued a statement urging its citizens to exercise caution during the High Holy Days in places associated with Jewish and Israeli communities in the United Arab Emirates.