Israeli officials say the new air strikes have targeted Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which rejects any compromises with Israel unlike their other rival Hamas

It launched a series of strikes near the ancestral home region of Syrian President Bashar al Assad on the Mediterranean coast

Israeli authorities and witnesses described the incident as a suspected Palestinian attack

'The hand of the man who tore the neck of God's enemy must be kissed', hardline Kayhan newspaper wrote

Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini deemed Rushdie's 1988 novel, 'The Satanic Verses' , blasphemous to Islam and issued the death edict - or fatwa

He was wanted in connection with a 2015 bombing that killed four Bangladeshis in the kingdom

In the Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza, damaged cars and buildings left little doubt of the force of the blasts that hit the area for the first time on Saturday, when many people were outside

Palestinian health officials confirm the deaths and say 40 others were injured