The U.S. launched a new strike against Houthis on Tuesday, hitting anti-ship missiles in the third assault on the Iranian-backed group in recent days.
War in Israel
Israel’s defense minister said the intense Israeli military offensive in the southern Gaza Strip will soon be scaled back.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak told the U.K. Parliament that U.K. strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen, conducted alongside the United States, were “limited, not escalatory.”
The attack on the Gibraltar Eagle, later claimed by the Houthis, further escalates tensions gripping the Red Sea after American-led strikes on the rebels.
Israeli soccer player Sagiv Jehezkel returned to Israel to a cheering crowd, hours after he was briefly detained in Turkey for allegedly inciting hatred.
Israel insists its campaign against Hamas won’t end before the Palestinian terrorist organization capitulates and returns all the people it took captive, a senior official said.
An anti-tank missile fired from Lebanon hit a home in northern Israel on Sunday, killing two civilians and renewing concerns about the risk of a second front erupting in the Israel-Hamas war.
A new U.S. strike against Iran-backed rebels in Yemen overnight Saturday heightened fears that the Israel-Hamas war could escalate into a regional conflict.
Sunday will mark 100 days since about 250 people were taken hostage by terrorists, triggering the latest war between Israel and Hamas.
Israel insisted at the United Nations’ highest court that its war in Gaza was a legitimate defense of its people and that it was Hamas terrorists who were guilty of genocide.
The first day of strikes Friday hit 28 locations and struck more than 60 targets. However, the U.S. determined the additional location, a radar site, still presented a threat to maritime traffic, one official said.
Winning approval for the consideration of post-conflict scenarios along with tamping down renewed fears that the Gaza war could spread were the Secretary of State’s main goals.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blasts the case. “This is an upside-down world — the state of Israel is accused of genocide while it is fighting genocide,” he says.
More than a dozen sites used by the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen were being bombed Thursday, in a massive retaliatory strike, U.S. officials told The Associated Press.
The Israeli military said it has found evidence that hostages were present in an underground tunnel in the Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis.