The attack comes after the Houthis repeatedly assaulted and then boarded a Greek-flagged oil tanker in the nearby Red Sea.
War in Israel
A campaign to inoculate children in Gaza against polio and prevent the spread of the virus has begun, the Health Ministry said Saturday.
Throughout Adam Berdichevsky’s match on Friday, a group of around 30 survivors from the Nir Yitzhak community held up Israeli flags, some with messages in Hebrew.
The American Near East Refugee Aid group said the missile strike on Thursday came without any warning or prior communication with soldiers.
Yemen’s Houthi terrorists released footage showing fighters placing explosives on a Greek-flagged tanker that has put the Red Sea at risk of an oil spill.
Israel says the raids across the northern West Bank — which have killed a total of 16 people, nearly all terrorists, since late Tuesday — are aimed at preventing attacks.
Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists pulled back after an exchange of heavy fire across the U.N.-drawn boundary between Lebanon and Israel over the weekend. But their decades-old conflict is far from over.
Israel says it is rooting out West Bank terrorists to prevent attacks.
The talks also come as ongoing cease-fire talks to pause the war between Israel and Hamas are set to shift to Doha after several days of intense negotiations in Cairo.
Israel believes there are still 108 hostages in Gaza and that more than 40 of them are dead.
The attack on the Sounion marks the most serious assault in weeks by the terrorists, who continue to target shipping through the Red Sea corridor over the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip.
After 100 Israeli warplanes flew over southern Lebanon, taking out thousands of Hezbollah missile launchers, the Middle East braced for an expanded conflagration.
Israel and the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah traded heavy fire early Sunday but backed off from sparking a widely feared all-out war.
Israel launched intense airstrikes in southern Lebanon early Sunday in what it said was a pre-emptive strike against the Hezbollah terrorist group.
Hamas said a delegation will travel to Cairo on Saturday evening to receive an update on negotiations aimed at achieving a cease-fire in Gaza.