GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian teen Friday near the Gaza-Israel frontier and Palestinian militants fired a rocket into southern Israel in the evening, apparently in response to the fatal shooting. The Israeli military said a projectile had been fired from Gaza but there were no reports of casualties […]

On Thanksgiving Day morning, an Oklahoma police officer decided to do something nice for the emergency dispatchers working the holiday shift with him. And so he drove to his local Starbucks and ordered them all drinks.
According to a Facebook post Thursday by Kiefer Police Department Chief Johnny O’Mara, when the officer received the order, the label on one of the cups – a Venti hot chocolate – read: “PIG.”
O’Mara contacted the Starbucks in Glenpool, Oklahoma, to complain and was told the store would happily replace the beverage with a correct label – which was not the apology he had sought.
“The proverb ‘Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me’ came to mind,” he wrote on the social media platform, attaching a photo of the mislabeled cup.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch police say multiple people have been injured in a stabbing incident in The Hague’s main shopping street. Police said in a tweet Friday evening that the incident happened in the city’s main shopping street. Further details were not immediately available.

Talks over the past two days have resumed between Hamas and Israel through Egyptian, Qatari and UN mediators over a long-term truce agreement, which also cover the issue of a prisoners swap deal, the Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar reported Friday.
According to the report, in return for long-term calm in Gaza, construction of new facilities are being considered for Palestinians, such as a Turkish-funded desalination plant, a new US-funded hospital, and a new power station.
It was also reported that UN Middle East envoy Nickolay Mladenov will meet Hamas leaders after he had met with Israeli interim Defense Minister Naftali Bennett in Tel Aviv.

Knesset Speaker and Likud member Yuli Edelstein made attempts to form a unity government under his leadership, in a contentious internal Likud move to end Israel’s year-long ongoing political stalemate, Hebrew-language daily Yedioth Aharonoth reported Friday.
According to the report, Edelstein planned to announce an agreed deal in a press conference on Wednesday, after receiving signatures supporting the move from Blue & White’s Benny Gantz, Yisrael Beiteinu’s Avigdor Liberman, and two-thirds of the Likud faction.

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LONDON (AP) – London Mayor Sadiq Khan says police are not looking for anyone else in the stabbings that took place near London Bridge. The mayor commended the “breathtaking heroism” of the members of public who intervened in the incident, running toward the suspect. The man was later shot dead by police. Khan says a […]

As Black Friday turns into Cyber Monday, ushering in the unofficial beginning of the holiday shopping season, a former journalist is speaking up about the emotional and physical toll she says she experienced as a seasonal employee at one of Amazon’s fulfillment centers.
Emily Guendelsberger was a reporter at the Philadelphia City Paper before it closed in 2015. Afterward, she took a seasonal job at Amazon’s relatively new fulfillment center just outside Louisville, Kentucky, where she worked as a picker, navigating the aisles of the warehouse to collect items that had been ordered for the holidays.

Interim Defense Minister Naftali Bennett thinks Iran can be deterred to completely forgo its ambitions in Syria, Israel Hayom reported on Friday morning.
“Now is the time to strike,” Bennet said in disclosed discussions with top Israeli security officials conducted in the last few days. The regime in Tehran is mainly occupied with domestic matters such as an economic crisis and widespread riots that have surged in the last few weeks, the minister argued, as cited by Israel Hayom.

STRAND (JTA) — A Norwegian mayor asked a church to replace its traditional Star-of-David Christmas decoration due to complaints that it’s too associated with Israel and Jews. Strand Mayor Irene Heng Lauvsnes asked the Klippen Pentecostal church, which lights a large Star of David neon decoration in a municipal park where it holds a Christmas […]