Israel said today it had seized a Syrian citizen during a ground operation there.

The announcement didn't say when it took place and said the man was an Iranian operative gathering intelligence on Israeli troops in the Golan Heights.

Across Gaza today, Israeli airstrikes killed at least 31 Palestinians.

It's part of a month-long offensive that Israel says is aimed at preventing

Hamas militants from regrouping. Palestinians call it ethnic cleansing. An attack Ahan

Unis and the South killed eight people, including four children. Meanwhile, in Israel's war

against Hezbollah in Lebanon, airstrikes on Saiden left only the shell of an apartment building. For the last 24

hours, 18 people have been killed. In Iran today, large rallies commemorated the 45th anniversary

of the storming of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. That was the beginning of the 444-day hostage crisis.

People burned U.S. and Israeli flags, and the commander of Iran's

Revolutionary Guards told the crowds that the United States and Israel were behaving like

collapsing regimes. It came as the State Department acknowledged that an Iranian-American

journalist is believed to have been detained in Iran for several months, until 2022 Reza Valizadei worked for Radio Farta,

which is part of the U.S. government's agency for global media.

In Spain, rage over the government's response to last week's devastating floods and mudslides

led to some literal mudslinging.

Angry crowds pelted Spanish King Felipe the 6 with mud and shouted

get out and killers. The official death toll stands at 217 with many more still unaccounted for.

And a string of late season severe storms and tornadoes tore through the Oklahoma City area overnight.

The storms ripped the roofs off homes,

flipped cars, and brought down power lines,

leaving close to 100,000 homes and businesses without electricity.

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