Monday 9 Nissan – Hamas fires 10 rockets at southern Israel, injuring one, in largest attack in months – British MPs barred from entering Israel say they were astounded by treatment – Videos and more…

A year and a half after hundreds of Muslim rioters attempted to harm passengers on a flight from Israel to Russia, Chief Rabbi Harav Berel Lazar shlita was honored by the airport management in Makhachkala, the site of the antisemitic riot.

The rabbi received an overview of the security measures that have been improved since the incident that shocked Russia and the Jewish world.

British Airways resumed flights to Israel this weekend, becoming the latest major carrier to renew service suspended due to the Israel-Hamas war.

The move comes the week before the busy Pesach travel season, when flights to Israel are heavily booked.

The British flag carrier’s red-eye flight from London’s Heathrow airport landed in Israel in the early hours of Sunday morning, while their morning flight to London left Ben-Gurion International Airport at sunrise.

Two British members of parliament who were refused entry to Israel yesterday have now returned to London, they say.

Abtisam Mohamed and Yuan Yang from the UK’s governing Labour Party were traveling as part of a parliamentary delegation, but were stopped at the border on the grounds that they intended to provoke anti-Israel activities, according to the Israeli embassy in Britain.

“We’re astounded at the unprecedented step taken by the Israeli authorities to refuse British MPs entry on our trip to visit the occupied West Bank,” Mohamed and Yang say in a joint statement. “It is vital that parliamentarians are able to witness, firsthand, the situation in the occupied Palestinian territory.”

They add that “parliamentarians should feel free to speak truthfully in the House of Commons, without fear of being targeted.”

Israel’s Interior Ministry said it barred the two lawmakers from entering since they stated during questioning that the purpose of their visit was “to document Israeli security forces and spread hateful rhetoric against Israel.”

Asian markets plunged on Monday after Donald Trump warned foreign governments they would have to pay “a lot of money” to lift sweeping tariffs.

The US president compared the tariffs to “medicine”, his remarks triggering further carnage across global financial markets.

In Japan, the Nikkei was off an eye-watering 6.5pc, falling almost 8pc in early trade.

Meanwhile, in Hong Kong, the Hang Seng tumbled almost 10pc and the Shanghai Composite more than 4pc.

Speaking to reporters on board Air Force One on Sunday night, Mr Trump indicated he was not concerned about losses that have already wiped out trillions of dollars in value from share markets around the world.

“I don’t want anything to go down. But sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something,” he said as he returned from a weekend of golf in Florida.

Hundreds of thousands of people marched in over 40 cities across Spain to protest against skyrocketing rents and the growing lack of affordable housing — a crisis exacerbated by the country’s booming tourism industry.

Protesters waved banners and rattled keys as they made their way through the capital, voicing anger over the rise of short-term holiday rentals. Chants of “Get Airbnb out of our neighbourhoods” echoed throughout the demonstrations.

The housing situation has worsened dramatically over the past decade. According to figures from property website Idealista, average rental prices in Spain have doubled, while property prices have jumped by more than 44%.

During a visit to the new unit, Israeli Defense Minister Yisrael Katz revealed a document from conversations discovered in Hamas leaders’ tunnels in Gaza. The document proves a direct link between Iran and Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar and Mohammed Deif, highlighting Iran’s support for Hamas’s plan to destroy Israel.

The document shows that Sinwar and Deif requested $500 million from the commander of the Qods Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards to fund the destruction of Israel. In response, Izadi, head of the Palestinian division in the Revolutionary Guards, confirmed that, despite Iran’s economic difficulties and the hardship faced by the Iranian population, Iran would continue to fund Hamas because the fight against Israel and the U.S. remains a top priority for the Iranian regime.

A 30-year-old man in Ashkelon was lightly wounded by shrapnel during a rocket barrage fired from Gaza at southern Israel on Sunday as Hamas launched the largest such attack it has carried out in months, prompting Israel to vow that the terror group would pay a heavy price.

Shortly after 9 p.m. on Sunday, 10 rockets were launched toward the coastal cities of Ashkelon and Ashdod in southern Israel, from central Gaza’s Deir al-Balah, marking the largest barrage from Gaza in many months.

Five of the ten rockets were intercepted by Israel’s air defenses, the Israel Defense Forces said, and at least one of the five that were not intercepted hit Ashkelon, causing damage and lightly injuring a 30-year-old man, who was taken to the coastal city’s Barzilai Hospital for treatment.

The Magen David Adom emergency services said that two other people were hurt while running to shelters, while several people were treated for acute anxiety following the attack.

Home Front Command officers were also operating at the sites of rocket impacts, the military said.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Washington DC on Sunday night ahead of a series of hastily arranged meetings with US President Donald Trump and senior US officials over the next two days.

The meetings will largely focus on the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip and the hostages, of whom 59 are still in captivity, as well as Trump’s new tariff policy, under which Israeli goods face a 17 percent US tariff.

The foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, met his Israeli counterpart, Gideon Sa’ar, in Abu Dhabi today, to discuss efforts to reach a ceasefire in Gaza and secure the release of hostages, the UAE state news agency says.

The readout from the Israeli side did not mention Gaza, only “the full range of regional issues.”

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