RAMALLAH -- Palestine condemned on Thursday "in the strongest terms" the U.S. veto on Palestine's full membership in the United Nations.

The Palestinian Presidency said the American "veto" is unfair, immoral, and unjustified and defies the will of the international community, Palestine's official news agency WAFA reported. (Palestine-UN Membership-U.S. Veto)

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BEIRUT -- A fighter of the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah was killed and two civilians were wounded on Thursday afternoon in Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon's southern village of Blida, according to Lebanese military sources.

The sources, who spoke anonymously, said Israeli warplanes and drones carried out a series of airstrikes on four towns and villages in the border region of southern Lebanon, destroying three houses and damaging 11 others. (Lebanon-Israel-Confrontations)

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NAIROBI -- Kenyan President William Ruto confirmed that military chief Francis Ogolla was among 10 senior commanders killed in a helicopter crash in the northwestern part of the country on Thursday.

Ruto said Ogolla, chief of the Kenya Defense Forces (KDF), was aboard the KDF Huey helicopter with 11 other military personnel. The helicopter took off from a local primary school in Elgeyo Marakwet County when it went down and burst into flames at about 2:20 p.m. local time (1120 GMT). (Kenya-Plane Crash)

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GAZA -- The Israeli army mobilized military reinforcements, including artillery and armored personnel carriers, around Gaza in preparation for a possible ground attack on the southernmost Gazan city of Rafah, local media reported Thursday.

Dotan, commander of Battalion 932 in the Israeli army, told soldiers at the end of the military operation in the Nuseirat refugee camp that they would be advancing towards Rafah, the Hebrew public radio reported. (Israel-Attack-Rafah) Enditem

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