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A rocket fired from Yemen hit an area of Tel Aviv overnight, leaving 16 people injured by broken glass, the Israeli military said days later on Saturday. Israeli airstrikes hit Houthi rebels who have been launching missiles in solidarity with the Palestinians in Loop.
Another 14 people suffered minor injuries as they ran to shelters when air raid sirens sounded before dawn on Saturday, the military said.
The Houthis issued a statement on Telegram saying they had aimed a hypersonic ballistic missile at a military target, which they did not identify. Israel’s military said it was investigating, adding that “we emphasize that the air defense is not airtight.”
“A flash of light, a blow and we fell to the ground. Big mess, broken glass everywhere,” said Bar Katz, a resident of a damaged building.
The attack came after Israeli airstrikes on Yemen’s Houthi-controlled capital Sanaa and the port city of Hodeidah killed at least nine people on Thursday. The attacks came hours after a missile from Yemen hit a school building in central Israel. The Houthis also claimed responsibility for a drone attack on an unspecified military target in central Israel on Thursday.
Israel’s military says the Iran-backed Houthis have launched more than 200 missiles and drones during the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. The Houthis have also attacked ships in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden and say they will not stop until there is a ceasefire in Gaza.
Thursday’s Israeli strikes caused “considerable damage” to Houthi-controlled Red Sea ports that will lead to an “immediate and significant reduction in port capacity,” UN spokesman Stéphane Dujarric said. The port of Hodeidah has been key for food shipments to Yemen during its decade-long civil war.
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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said attacks by both sides risk further escalation in the region.
Israeli attacks on Gaza kill a dozen children
Mourners in Gaza held funerals for 19 people, 12 of them children, who were killed in Israeli strikes on Friday and overnight.
An impact hit a residential building in the urbanized area Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, killing at least seven Palestinians, including five children and a woman, and wounding 16 others, health officials said.
In Gaza City, an attack on a house killed 12 people, including seven children and two women, according to Al-Ahli hospital, where the bodies were taken.
A man cradled a small body wrapped in a shroud as mourners gathered at the Gaza City hospital. The women comforted each other as they cried.
In total, Gaza’s Health Ministry said 21 people had died in the past 24 hours.
More than 45,200 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since October 2023, when a Hamas attack in Israel killed about 1,200 people and sparked a 14-month war. The Health Ministry does not distinguish between civilians and combatants, but has said that more than half of the deaths are women and children.
Israel faces heavy international criticism for unprecedented levels of civilian deaths in Gaza. It says it only attacks militants and blames Hamas for civilian deaths because its fighters operate in residential areas.
Urgent call for supplies for northern Gaza hospital
Gaza’s Health Ministry issued an urgent appeal for medical and food supplies to be delivered to the largely isolated Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza, while the hospital’s director described conditions as dire, while The Israeli army presses its latest offensive.
The ministry reported continued Israeli shooting and shelling near the hospital, saying that “the projectiles have reached the third floor and the entrances of the hospital, creating a state of panic.”
Hospital director Dr. Husam Abu Safiyeh said the center was facing “serious shortages” and said requests for essential medical supplies and ways to maintain oxygen, water and electricity systems “have largely gone unmet.” ”.
He said 72 injured people were being treated at the hospital.
“Food is very scarce and we cannot provide food to the wounded,” Safiyeh added. “We urgently ask anyone who can provide us with supplies to help us.”
Aid groups have said Israeli military operations and armed gangs have hampered their ability to distribute aid.
The Israeli military organization dealing with humanitarian affairs in Gaza said on Saturday it had led an operation to deliver thousands of packages of food, flour and water to the Beit Hanoun area in the north. He said trucks from the U.N. World Food Program transported them to distribution centers in the area on Friday.
Iran said on Saturday that unknown gunmen had killed a local employee of the Iranian embassy in Syria in Damascus, the official IRNA news agency reported.
Its report quoted Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei as saying that “terrorists” opened fire on Davood Bitaraf’s car last Sunday. He did not say what he did with the embassy.
Baghaei said Iran holds Syria’s interim government responsible for finding and prosecuting those responsible for the assassination. Iran had been a key ally of recently ousted Syrian leader Bashar Assad.
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