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March 17, 2022

see April 6, 2022 release "Consolidated Department of Defense Coronavirus Disease 2019 Force Health Protection Guidance"

Oct. 4, 2021

May 7, 2021

Nov. 30, 2020

Oct. 27, 2020

Sept. 14, 2020

May 6, 2020

March 30, 2020

March 8, 2020

Defense Industrial Base

April 4, 2022

Updated: see April 4, 2022 Infographic

Feb. 23, 2021

Jan. 14, 2021

March 20, 2020

Elective Surgery

May 21, 2020

May 20, 2020

Supersedes March 24 memo

May 19, 2020

March 24, 2020

Superseded by May 19 memo

Force Health Protection Guidance

Rescinds FHP Revision 5 , dated March 24, 2023

July 26, 2023

Amends Consolidated FHP Guidance – Revision 4 , dated Jan. 30, 2023

Rescinded, see July 26, 2023 USD(P&R) Memo “Force Health Protection Guidance-Coronavirus Disease 2019 and Other Infectious Respiratory Diseases”

March 24, 2023

Accompanying press release, Jan. 31, 2023

Amends Consolidated FHP Guidance - Revision 3 , dated Aug. 29, 2022

Updated, see Consolidated FHP Guidance Revision 5, dated March 24, 2023

Jan. 30, 2023

Amends Consolidated FHP Guidance - Revision 2 , dated Aug. 8, 2022

Updated, see Consolidated FHP Guidance - Revision 4 , dated Jan. 30, 2023

Aug. 29, 2022

Amends Consolidated FHP Guidance-Revision 1 , dated June 29, 2022

Updated, see Consolidated FHP Guidance-Revision 3 , dated Aug. 29, 2022

Aug. 8, 2022

Amends Consolidated FHP Guidance - Revision 1 , dated June 29, 2022

Updated, see Consolidated FHP Guidance - Revision 3 , dated Aug. 29, 2022

Accompanying press release, July 7, 2022

Amends Consolidated FHP Guidance , dated April 4, 2022

Updated, see Consolidated FHP Guidance - Revision 2 , dated Aug. 8, 2022

June 29, 2022

Consolidates, incorporates, and rescinds multiple policies and guidances

Accompanying press release, April 6, 2022

Updated, see Consolidated FHP Guidance - Revision 1 , dated June 29, 2022

Consolidates, incorporates, and rescinds multiple previously issued policies and guidances

Updated: see “Consolidated DoD Coronavirus Disease 2019 Force Health Protection Guidance - Revision 1”, June 29, 2022

April 6, 2022

Department of Defense Guidance for Personnel Traveling During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic

Supplements (Supplement 18) Revision 1

Supplements Secretary of Defense Memorandum

Rescinds and replaces (Supplement 20)

Rescinds and replaces (Supplement 16) Revision 1

Jan. 11, 2022

Department of Defense Guidance for Protecting All Personnel in DOD Workplaces During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Rescinds and replaces (Supplement 18)

Supplemented by (Supplement 20) Revision 1

Jan. 7, 2022

Department of Defense Guidance for Coronavirus Disease 2019 Labratory Testing Services

Rescinds and replaces (Supplement 15) Revision 2

Dec. 30, 2021

Department of Defense Guidance for Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination Attestation, Screening Testing, and Vaccination Verification

Rescinds and replaces Supplement 23, Revision 2

Supplemented by 18-1 (Jan. 7, 2022 release)

Dec. 20, 2021

Department of Defense Guidance for Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination Attestation, Screening Testing, and Vaccination Verification (Updated)

(corrected copy of Oct. 29 memo )

Rescinded and replaced; see Force Health Protection Guidance Supplement 23, Revision 3

Nov. 15, 2021

(for corrected copy of Oct. 29 memo, see Nov. 15 release )

Rescinded and replaced; see Force Health Protection Supplement 15, Revision 3

Nov. 1, 2021

Rescinded and replaced: see Force Health Protection Guidance Supplement 23, Revision 2

Oct. 18, 2021

Department of Defense Guidance for Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination Attestation and Screening Testing for Unvaccinated Personnel

DD Form 3150 (Certification of Vaccination)

Rescinded: see Force Health Protection Guidance Supplement 23, Revision 1

Sept. 7, 2021

Department of Defense Guidance for Coronavirus Disease 2019 Surveillance and Screening Testing

Rescinds Supplement 11

July 21, 2021

Department of Defense Guidance for Coronavirus Disease 2019 Laboratory Testing Services

Rescinds Supplement 15, Revision 1

complemented by Supplement 22

July 2, 2021

Department of Defense Guidance for the Use of Masks, Personal Protective Equipment, and Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic

Rescinds Supplement 17

Supplements Secretary of Defense Feb. 4, 2021 Memorandum, “Use of Masks and Other Public Health Measures”

Supplements Deputy Secretary of Defense May 13, 2021 Memorandum, “Updated Mask Guidelines for Vaccinated Persons”

Rescinded; see March 1, 2022, USD(P&R) memo “Updated Guidance for Mask and Screening Testing for all Department of Defense Installations and Other Facilities”

June 22, 2021

Department of Defense Guidance for Deployment and Redeployment of Individuals and Units During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic

Rescinds and replaces Supplement 16

Rescinded and replaced; see Supplement 20, Revision 1 (Jan. 11, 2022 release)

May 4, 2021

Rescinds and replaces Supplement 14

April 12, 2021

Department of Defense Guidance for Movement and Medical Treatment of Coronavirus Disease 2019 Patients, Symptomatic Persons Under Investigation, or Persons Potentially Exposed to the Coronavirus Disease 2019

Rescinds and replaces Supplement 5

March 25, 2021

Department of Defense Guidance for Protecting All Personnel in Department of Defense Workplaces During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic

Rescinds Supplement 8

Rescinded and replaced; see Supplement 18, Revision 1 (Jan. 7, 2022 release)

March 17, 2021

Rescinds and replaces Supplement 7

Rescinded, see Supplement 17, Revision 1

Department of Defense Guidance for Deployment and Redeployment of Individuals and Units during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic

Rescinds Supplement 9

Rescinded; see Supplement 16 - Revision 1

March 16, 2021

Rescinds and replaces Supplement 15

March 15, 2021

Rescinded and replaced; see Supplement 15, Revision-1

Jan. 11, 2021

Supplements requirements in Supplement 8

Rescinds and replaces Supplement 12

Rescinds and replaces Supplement 1

Rescinded and replaced; see Supplement 20

Dec. 29, 2020

Department of Defense Guidance for Coronavirus Disease 2019 Clinical Laboratory Diagnostic Testing Services

Rescinds Supplement 10

Rescinded; see Supplement 15

Aug. 24, 2020

Rescinds Supplement 4

Rescinded; see Supplement 14

Aug. 6, 2020

Department of Defense Guidance for Coronavirus Disease 2019 Surveillance and Screening with Testing

Rescinded; see Supplement 22

June 11, 2020

Rescinds Supplement 6

Rescinded; see Supplement 13

Department of Defense Guidance for Deployment and Redeployment of Individuals and Units During the Novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic

Rescinded; see Supplement 16

May 26, 2020

Department of Defense Guidance for Protecting Personnel in Workplaces During the Response to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic

Requirements supplemented in Supplement 14

Rescinded; see Supplement 18

April 13, 2020

Department of Defense Guidance for Use of Cloth Face Coverings, Personal Protective Equipment, and Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic

Rescinds Supplement 3

Rescinded and replaced, see Supplement 17

April 8, 2020

Department of Defense Guidance for Coronavirus Disease 2019 Laboratory Testing Diagnostic Services

Rescinded; see Supplement 10

April 7, 2020

Department of Defense Guidance for Movement and Medical Treatment of COVID-19 Patients, Symptomatic Persons Under Investigation, or Potentially Exposed COVID-19 Persons

Rescinded and replaced; see Supplement 21

Department of Defense Guidance for Personnel Traveling During the Novel Coronavirus Outbreak

Rescinded; see Supplement 12

March 11, 2020

Department of Defense Guidance for the Use of Personal Protective Equipment and Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Outbreak

Rescinded; see Supplement 7

March 10, 2020

Department of Defense Guidance for Military Installation Commanders' Risk-Based Measured Responses to the Novel Coronavirus Outbreak

Rescinded; see April 29, 2021 memo "Guidance for Commanders on Risk-based Responses and Implementation of the Health Protection Condition Framework"

Feb. 25, 2020

Department of Defense Guidance for Personnel Returning from China During the Novel Coronavirus Outbreak

Feb. 7, 2020

Jan. 30, 2020

General Guidance

April 18, 2023

March 1, 2022

Dec 30, 2021

Rescinds May 13, 2021 memo

(additional information: release )

Rescinded; see release March 1, 2022 USD(P&R) memo “Updated Guidance for Mask and Screening Testing for all Department of Defense Installations and Other Facilities”

July 28, 2021

June 10, 2021

June 7, 2021

Supplemented, see June 21, 2021 Force Health Protection Guidance Supplement 17, Revision 1 memo

May 13, 2021

Rescinds April 5, 2020 memo

Updated, see May 13, 2021 memo

Feb. 4, 2021

Dec. 3, 2020

Nov. 19, 2020

July 20, 2020

Rescinded; see Feb. 4, 2021 release and memo

April 5, 2020

Jan. 31, 2020

Health Protection Condition Levels

Rescinds Force Health Protection Supplement 2

Rescinds Secretary of Defense April 1, 2020 memo "Guidance for Commanders on the Implementation of the Risk-Based Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic"

Rescinds Secretary of Defense May 19, 2020 memo "Guidance for Commanders on Risk-Based Changing of Health Protection Condition Levels During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic"

April 29, 2021

Supplements Secretary's April 1 memo "Guidance for Commanders on the Implementation of the Risk-Based Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic"

Rescinded, see April 29, 2021 memo "Guidance for Commanders' Risk-Based Responses and Implementation of the Health Protection Condition Framework"

Military Personnel Guidance

Accompanying press release, Feb. 24, 2023

Feb. 24, 2023

Rescinds Secretary Austin’s Aug. 24, 2021 memo Mandatory Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination of Department of Defense Service Members

Rescinds Secretary Austin’s Nov. 30, 2021 memo Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination for Members of the National Guard and the Ready Reserve

Jan. 10, 2023

Rescinded, see Jan. 10, 2023 release: DOD Rescinds COVID-19 Vaccination Mandate

Nov. 30, 2021

Accompanying press release: Aug. 25, 2021

Aug. 24, 2021

July 1, 2020

June 30, 2020

Cancelled; see March 16, 2021 release (Travel Restrictions)

June 29, 2020

April 23, 2020

April 16, 2020

April 9, 2020

March 26, 2020

March 23, 2020

Moving During COVID-19 (PCS)

Pentagon personnel guidance.

Mar. 3, 2023

(CDC COVID data tracker, Arlington County, VA)

June 17, 2022

Sept. 14, 2022

May 4, 2022

Mar. 2, 2022

Jan. 6, 2022

Dec. 28, 2021

Dec. 27, 2021

Oct. 29, 2021

July 30, 2021

July 7, 2021

Rescinds CMO May 26, 2020 memo, “Pentagon Reservation Plan for Reslience and Aligning with National Guidelines for Opening Up American Again”

June 21, 2021

Nov. 24, 2020

Updates June 25 release

Nov. 20, 2020

Updates June 11 release

June 25, 2020

Updates June 10 memo

Updated; see June 25 release

Updated; see June 25 memo

June 10, 2020

Rescinded, see June 21, 2021 DAM memo

March 14, 2020

March 13, 2020

Secretary of Defense Guidance

Jan 2, 2022

March 4, 2021

May 27, 2020

Supplemented by HPCON memo May 19

Rescinded, see April 29, 2021 memo "Guidance for Commanders’ Risk-Based Responses and Implementation of the Health Protection Condition Framework"

April 1, 2020

March 27, 2020

Test Kits: Military Beneficiaries

Feb 24, 2022

Travel Restrictions

March 30, 2022

March 23, 2022

March 16, 2022

March 9, 2022

March 3, 2022

Feb. 23, 2022

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Supplemented see Force Health Protection (Supplement 20), Revision 1

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(This format replaces the weekly "Travel Restrictions: Green Locations" releases)

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Cancelled; see May 22 memo

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Nov. 9, 2021

Rescinds and replaced; see Supplement 23, Revision 3

Rescinded and replaced: see Force Health Protection 23, Supplement 2

Rescinded: see Force Health Protection 23, Supplement 1

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The trains and stations of the Moscow Metro

2 Comments · Posted by Alex Smirnov in Cities , Travel , Video

The Moscow Metro is the third most intensive subway system in the world after Tokyo and Seoul subways. The first line was opened on May 15, 1935. Since 1955, the metro has the name of V.I. Lenin.

The system consists of 12 lines with a total length of 305.7 km. Forty four stations are recognized cultural heritage. The largest passenger traffic is in rush hours from 8:00 to 9:00 and from 18:00 to 19:00.

Cellular communication is available on most of the stations of the Moscow Metro. In March 2012, a free Wi-Fi appeared in the Circle Line train. The Moscow Metro is open to passengers from 5:20 to 01:00. The average interval between trains is 2.5 minutes.

The fare is paid by using contactless tickets and contactless smart cards, the passes to the stations are controlled by automatic turnstiles. Ticket offices and ticket vending machines can be found in station vestibules.

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Tomás · August 27, 2012 at 11:34 pm

The Moscow metro stations are the best That I know, cars do not.

Alberto Calvo · September 25, 2016 at 8:57 pm

Great videos! Moscow Metro is just spectacular. I actually visited Moscow myself quite recently and wrote a post about my top 7 stations, please check it out and let me know what you think! :)

http://www.arwtravels.com/blog/moscow-metro-top-7-stations-you-cant-miss

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Touring the Top 10 Moscow Metro Stations

By Claudia Looi 2 Comments

Komsomolskaya metro station looks like a museum. It has vaulted ceilings and baroque decor.

Hidden underground, in the heart of Moscow, are historical and architectural treasures of Russia. These are Soviet-era creations – the metro stations of Moscow.

Our guide Maria introduced these elaborate metro stations as “the palaces for the people.” Built between 1937 and 1955, each station holds its own history and stories. Stalin had the idea of building beautiful underground spaces that the masses could enjoy. They would look like museums, art centers, concert halls, palaces and churches. Each would have a different theme. None would be alike.

The two-hour private tour was with a former Intourist tour guide named Maria. Maria lived in Moscow all her life and through the communist era of 60s to 90s. She has been a tour guide for more than 30 years. Being in her 60s, she moved rather quickly for her age. We traveled and crammed with Maria and other Muscovites on the metro to visit 10 different metro stations.

Arrow showing the direction of metro line 1 and 2

Moscow subways are very clean

To Maria, every street, metro and building told a story. I couldn’t keep up with her stories. I don’t remember most of what she said because I was just thrilled being in Moscow.   Added to that, she spilled out so many Russian words and names, which to one who can’t read Cyrillic, sounded so foreign and could be easily forgotten.

The metro tour was the first part of our all day tour of Moscow with Maria. Here are the stations we visited:

1. Komsomolskaya Metro Station  is the most beautiful of them all. Painted yellow and decorated with chandeliers, gold leaves and semi precious stones, the station looks like a stately museum. And possibly decorated like a palace. I saw Komsomolskaya first, before the rest of the stations upon arrival in Moscow by train from St. Petersburg.

2. Revolution Square Metro Station (Ploshchad Revolyutsii) has marble arches and 72 bronze sculptures designed by Alexey Dushkin. The marble arches are flanked by the bronze sculptures. If you look closely you will see passersby touching the bronze dog's nose. Legend has it that good luck comes to those who touch the dog's nose.

Touch the dog's nose for good luck. At the Revolution Square station

Revolution Square Metro Station

3. Arbatskaya Metro Station served as a shelter during the Soviet-era. It is one of the largest and the deepest metro stations in Moscow.

Arbatskaya Metro Station

4. Biblioteka Imeni Lenina Metro Station was built in 1935 and named after the Russian State Library. It is located near the library and has a big mosaic portrait of Lenin and yellow ceramic tiles on the track walls.

Lenin's portrait at the Biblioteka Imeni Lenina Metro Station

5. Kievskaya Metro Station was one of the first to be completed in Moscow. Named after the capital city of Ukraine by Kiev-born, Nikita Khruschev, Stalin's successor.

Kievskaya Metro Station

6. Novoslobodskaya Metro Station  was built in 1952. It has 32 stained glass murals with brass borders.

Novoslobodskaya metro station

7. Kurskaya Metro Station was one of the first few to be built in Moscow in 1938. It has ceiling panels and artwork showing Soviet leadership, Soviet lifestyle and political power. It has a dome with patriotic slogans decorated with red stars representing the Soviet's World War II Hall of Fame. Kurskaya Metro Station is a must-visit station in Moscow.

Ceiling panel and artworks at Kurskaya Metro Station

8. Mayakovskaya Metro Station built in 1938. It was named after Russian poet Vladmir Mayakovsky. This is one of the most beautiful metro stations in the world with 34 mosaics painted by Alexander Deyneka.

Mayakovskaya station

One of the over 30 ceiling mosaics in Mayakovskaya metro station

9. Belorusskaya Metro Station is named after the people of Belarus. In the picture below, there are statues of 3 members of the Partisan Resistance in Belarus during World War II. The statues were sculpted by Sergei Orlov, S. Rabinovich and I. Slonim.

10. Teatralnaya Metro Station (Theatre Metro Station) is located near the Bolshoi Theatre.

Teatralnaya Metro Station decorated with porcelain figures .

Taking the metro's escalator at the end of the tour with Maria the tour guide.

Have you visited the Moscow Metro? Leave your comment below.

January 15, 2017 at 8:17 am

An excellent read! Thanks for much for sharing the Russian metro system with us. We're heading to Moscow in April and exploring the metro stations were on our list and after reading your post, I'm even more excited to go visit them. Thanks again 🙂

December 6, 2017 at 10:45 pm

Hi, do you remember which tour company you contacted for this tour?

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Middle East latest: Baby delivered after mother killed in Rafah strike; Netanyahu vows to 'increase pressure on Hamas in coming days'

A baby girl was delivered in an emergency caesarean section after her Palestinian mother was killed by an Israeli attack in the Gaza city of Rafah. Meanwhile, Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel will "increase the political and military pressure on Hamas in the coming days".

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By Alex Crawford , special correspondent

The UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon has told Sky News the dangers in the region have not gone away and called for calm, wisdom and de-escalation as a matter of urgency.

Joanna Wronecka spoke from her office in Beirut about her worries and appealed for restraint from all those involved.

"I'm very concerned," she said. "Because we need just a small miscalculation and the situation can escalate even more."

She was referring to the spike in cross-border firing between the Israeli military and the Lebanese Hezbollah fighters who've been trading attacks with growing intensity since 7 October.

You can read Crawford's full piece here...

The campaigner who was called "openly Jewish" by a police officer last weekend, has been offered a meeting with a senior Metropolitan Police officer.

In a statement, the force said assistant commissioner Matt Twist had written to Gideon Falter, chief executive of the Campaign Against Antisemitism, to offer a private meeting.

The meeting is "to both apologise to him personally and discuss what more the Met can do to ensure Jewish Londoners feel safe", the police said.

We reported this morning the Board of Deputies of British Jews will meet Met Police chief Sir Mark Rowley this week, along with the Jewish Leadership Council and antisemitism charity CST regarding the incident (see post at 2.05pm).

 A baby girl was delivered in an emergency caesarean section after her Palestinian mother was killed along with her husband and daughter by an Israeli attack in the Gaza city of Rafah, Palestinian health officials have said.

The baby is stable and improving gradually, Mohammed Salama, a doctor caring for her, said.

Her mother, Sabreen Al-Sakani, had been 30 weeks pregnant.

The baby will stay in hospital for three to four weeks, Dr Salama said.

"After that we will see about her leaving, and where this child will go, to the family, to the aunt or uncle or grandparents. Here is the biggest tragedy. Even if this child survives, she was born an orphan," he said.

Israel has carried out near-daily air raids on Rafah, where more than half of Gaza's population of 2.3 million have sought refuge from fighting elsewhere.

It has also vowed to expand its ground offensive to the city on the border with Egypt despite international calls for restraint.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz had a telephone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today and discussed the state of the region, a spokesperson for the German government has said.

"The chancellor emphasised that it was essential to avoid a regional escalation," the spokesperson said.

It comes as Iran and Israel, who have been locked in a shadow war for years, try to dial back tensions following a series of escalatory attacks between them as the Israel-Hamas war inflames the wider region.

Israel war cabinet member Benny Gantz has spoken with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and asked him to reconsider the decision to sanction the IDF's Netzah Yehuda battalion, the American news website Axios reports, citing Mr Gantz's office.

For context : This weekend a report from Axios claimed the US was expected to announce sanctions within days on the IDF battalion for human rights violations in the occupied West Bank.  

Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu has already responded, warning it is "forbidden" to sanction the IDF.

The Axios report adds it would be the first time the US has imposed sanctions on an Israeli military unit.

Israel and Iran have been at war for decades but they have been fighting in the shadows.

Analysts believe both countries are now trying to ease tensions following a series of escalatory attacks between them.

Here, our international affairs editor Dominic Waghorn   explains how we got here and what could be next.

We have been reporting today on Israeli strikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafah overnight which killed 22 people, including 18 children, according to health officials.

Now, the IDF has responded to the overnight strikes.

"At the given times, the IDF struck several military targets of the terrorist organisations in Gaza including military compounds, launch posts and armed terrorists," it said in a statement.

For context : Israel has carried out near-daily air raids on Rafah, where more than half of Gaza's population of 2.3 million have sought refuge from fighting elsewhere.

It has also vowed to expand its ground offensive to the city on the border with Egypt despite international calls for restraint, including from the US.

Israel will "increase the political and military pressure on Hamas in the coming days", Benjamin Netanyahu has said.

Speaking before the Jewish holiday of Passover that starts tomorrow, the Israeli leader said all proposals for the release of hostages had been "outright rejected by Hamas".

"In the coming days we will increase the military and political pressure on Hamas because this is the only way to free our hostages and achieve our victory," he said.

He also responded to reports of imminent US sanctions on the IDF religious battalion Netzah Yehuda saying: "If anyone thinks they can impose sanctions on a unit in the IDF I will fight it with all my might."

The balance between the right to protest and the rights of everyone else had been completely lost, a charity that protects British Jews from antisemitism has said. 

We have been reporting this weekend on a Met Police officer who was recorded preventing a Jewish man from crossing a road by a pro-Palestinian march because he is "openly Jewish".

The force has since apologised.

Responding to the incident in a statement on X, the Community Security Trust (CST) noted that since 7 October it had seen a "record increase in anti-Jewish hate crime against a backdrop of constant anti-Israel hate demonstrations".

It said CST was working with the police to protect the Jewish community but despite "all the good work" there had been "mistakes".

"This latest case fits that profile, with the context and detail lost in the heat of controversy. An individual officer tried to do the right thing but ended up making things worse in a very difficult moment," the charity said.

The broader question, the CST said, was "how much longer these costly and disruptive protests will be allowed to continue".

"It feels like any balance between the right to protest and the rights of everyone else had been completely lost, with extremists the only ones to benefit, Jews the first to suffer and the police often caught in the middle," it added.

The Israeli military says its soldiers shot two Palestinians who tried to attack them in the West Bank this morning. 

We reported earlier today the IDF claimed two Palestinians tried to stab and shoot its soldiers near the city of Hebron (see our 9.13am post). 

One was reported dead, but now the Palestinian health ministry says both have been killed.

The Israeli military said: "One of the terrorists attempted to stab IDF soldiers that were in the area, who responded with live fire and neutralised him." 

The force added: "At the same time, the other terrorist opened fire at the soldiers, who responded with live fire and neutralised him too."

The official Palestinian news agency WAFA, quoting local sources, said ambulance crews were prevented from reaching the two men.

Palestinian security sources told WAFA the two men, aged 18 and 19, died and that they were still unable to collect their bodies.

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Iran missile and drone attack on Israel – what we know so far

Israel’s military has reported minor damage after Iran launched dozens of drones and missiles towards it late on Saturday

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Iran launched hundreds of drones as well as cruise missiles towards Israel , in the Islamic Republic’s first ever direct attack on the Jewish state, in response to the 1 April strike on an Iranian diplomatic building in the Syrian capital, Damascus, which killed a senior figure in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards and eight other officers.

Benny Gantz, a member of the war cabinet, said that Israel will exact a price from Iran in response to its mass missile and drone attack when the time is right. His comments came ahead of a war cabinet meeting alongside Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the country’s defence minister, Yoav Gallant.

Tehran has warned it will strike again with greater force if Israel or the US retaliate for the Iranian strike on Israel by more 300 drones and missiles on Saturday night. The air raids , the Islamic Republic’s first ever direct attack on the Israeli state, brought a years-long shadow war into the open and threatened to draw the region into a broader conflagration as Israel said it was considering its response.

However, the attack, mostly launched from inside Iran, caused only modest damage in Israel as most were shot down with the help of the US, Britain and Jordan. An air force base in southern Israel was hit, but continued to operate as normal and a seven-year-old child was seriously hurt by shrapnel. There were no other reports of serious damage. Israeli military spokesperson Rear Adm Daniel Hagari said that 99% of the launches had been intercepted.

Most of the Iranian drones flying over Syria’s airspace during Tehran’s strikes overnight were downed by Israeli and US jets before reaching their targets in Israel, two western intelligence sources told Reuters .

The UN security council will hold an emergency meeting on Sunday at the request of Israel’s ambassador to the UN, the council’s president said in a statement.

Iran informed Turkey in advance of its planned operation against Israel, a Turkish diplomatic source has told Reuters . The source also said that the US conveyed to Iran via Ankara that its operation must be “within certain limits”. These reports come after Iran’s foreign minister, Hossein Amirabdollahian , said in a meeting with foreign ambassadors in Tehran that Iran had informed the US that its attacks against Israel will be “limited” and for self-defence only.

John Kirby, the White House’s top national security spokesperson, told ABC’s This Week programme on Sunday that the US will continue to help Israel defend itself, but does not want war with Iran. “We don’t seek escalated tensions in the region. We don’t seek a wider conflict,” Kirby said. News outlet Axios reported that Joe Biden , the US president, had told Netanyahu that he would oppose an Israeli counterattack against Iran and that the prime minister should “take the win”.

UK Royal Air Force fighter jets and refuelling aircraft were also involved in Israel’s defence, taking off from bases in Cyprus. Their role, according to the UK Ministry of Defence, was to fill in for the US air force in the sorties against Islamic State normally carried out over Iraq and north-eastern Syria, but also to intercept Iranian drones if they came into the UK area of operations.

World leaders have condemned Iran’s attack, with regional powers including Saudi Arabia and Egypt calling for restraint. The UN secretary general, António Guterres, said: “I am deeply alarmed about the very real danger of a devastating region-wide escalation. I urge all parties to exercise maximum restraint to avoid any action that could lead to major military confrontations on multiple fronts in the Middle East.”

Jordan’s prime minister, Bisher Khasawneh , warned that any escalation in the region would lead to “dangerous paths”, joining a chorus of condemnation from world leaders to the attack. Other countries including the UK, Spain, the US, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and China, have called for restraint amid fears of a regional escalation of conflict across the Middle East. Iran’s foreign ministry has summoned the ambassadors of the UK , France , and Germany to question what it referred to as their “irresponsible stance” regarding Tehran’s retaliatory strikes on Israel, the semi-official Iranian Labour news agency reported .

Major airlines across the Middle East, including Emirates Airlines and Qatar Airways , announced they would resume some of their operations in the region after cancelling or rerouting some flights in response to Iran’s attack on Israel. Israel said it had reopened its airspace as of 7:30am local time on Sunday morning, with Beirut airport also reopening this morning. Several Iranian airports, including Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International, however, have cancelled flights until Monday.

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