In two simultaneous press conferences in Rome and in Ankara, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu officially announced the signing of a normalization agreement between the two countries.

“The actual agreement paper will be signed tomorrow, following ratification by the Turkish parliament ,” said Davutoğlu.

“Israel has reached a strategic agreement of immense importance for Israel’s economic and security interests now and in the future,” said Netanyahu. “Israel and Turkey are the two regional powers. Our previous distance prevented both our countries from maximizing our interests in the region – all that is gone now.”

The agreement includes permitting Turkey to transfer humanitarian and material aid to the Gaza Strip, through Israel’s Ashdod harbor. Additionally, Turkey will cease to allow terror organizations such as Hamas to plan attacks against Israel or to raise funds from Turkish territory.

IDF and Border Police forces arrested twelve terror suspects overnight in Judea and Samaria, ten of which are suspected of participating in violent riots directed towards Israeli civilians and security forces. They have been taken for questioning. The additional Two suspects were wanted for membership in the Hamas terror organization.

The Israel Police officially confirmed that the stabbing attack in a Rishon Lezion wine store, is not a terrorist attack.

“A fight broke our between several individuals, two of them sustained light injury. A suspect was arrested on the scene,” stated a spokesperson with the Rishon Lezion District Police.

According to  reports from Magen David Adom, a stabbing attack occurred in a shop in the city of Rishon Lezion.

Security and Police Forces are on their way top the scene. The motivation for the stabbing has yet to be established.

A gun concealed in a package of dates was confiscated minutes ago during a security check of baggage at the Allenby crossing between Israel and Jordan. The baggage belonged to a Palestinian woman, driving with a Jordanian passport,  heading through the Allenby Crossing on the way to Jordan. Two empty cartridges and a box of bullets was also confiscated, and the suspect was transferred for questioning by security forces.