TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) – A rocket fired from Yemen landed in an area of Tel Aviv overnight, injuring 16 people with broken glass, the Israeli military said Saturday, days after an Israeli airstrike. The United States announced that it had attacked the Houthi rebel group, which had launched missiles in solidarity with the United States. Palestinians in Gaza.
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According to the military, 14 other people who rushed to the evacuation center after an air raid siren sounded in the early hours of Saturday suffered minor injuries.
The Houthis said in a statement on Telegram that they had aimed a hypersonic ballistic missile at a military target, but did not specify the target. The Israeli military said it was investigating, adding: “We emphasize that air defenses are not airtight.”
“There was a flash and a blow and we fell to the ground. There was chaos, broken glass everywhere,” said Bar Katz, a resident of the damaged building.
The attack came after Israeli airstrikes on Yemen’s Houthi-held capital Sanaa and port city of Hodeidah on Thursday killed at least nine people. The attack came hours after a missile from Yemen hit a school building in central Israel. The Houthis also claimed a drone attack on unspecified military targets in central Israel on Thursday.
The Israeli military says the Iranian-backed Houthis launched more than 200 missiles and drones during the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. The Houthis have also attacked ships in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, and say they will not stop until a ceasefire is reached in Gaza.
Thursday’s Israeli military offensive will cause “significant damage” to Houthi-held Red Sea ports and lead to “an immediate and significant reduction in port capacity,” U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said. The port of Hodeidah has been a key point for shipping food to Yemen during the decade-long civil war.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres said attacks on both sides risked escalating further in the region.
12 children killed in Israeli attack on Gaza
Mourners in Gaza held funerals Friday and overnight for the 19 people killed in the Israeli attack, 12 of them children.
At least seven Palestinians, including five children and a woman, were killed and 16 injured in a single airstrike that hit a residential building in the already-built Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, health officials said. did.
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Twelve people, including seven children and two women, were killed in a house strike in Gaza City, according to Al Ahly Hospital, where the bodies were taken.
As mourners gathered at a hospital in Gaza City, a man cradled a small body wrapped in a shroud. The women cried and comforted each other.
Overall, the Gaza Ministry of Health announced 21 deaths in the past 24 hours.
Hamas attacks in Israel have killed around 1,200 people and more than 45,200 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since October 2023, when the 14-month war began. The Ministry of Health does not distinguish between civilians and combatants, but says more than half of the dead are women and children.
Israel faces intense international criticism over unprecedented levels of civilian deaths in the Gaza Strip. The government blames Hamas for civilian deaths because it targets only insurgents and its fighters operate in residential areas.
Urgent appeal for supplies to hospitals in northern Gaza
The Gaza Ministry of Health has issued an urgent appeal for medical supplies and food supplies to be delivered to the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya, in the largely isolated north of Gaza, but the hospital’s director said the Israeli military has stepped up its recent offensive. He said the situation was dire because of the situation.
The ministry reported continued gunfire and Israeli artillery fire near the hospital, saying: “Artillery shells hit the third floor and the entrance to the hospital, causing panic.”
Hospital director Dr. Hussam Abu Safieh said the facility was facing “acute shortages” and that demands for essential medical supplies and ways to maintain oxygen, water and electrical systems “are largely unmet.” No,” he claimed.
He said 72 injured people were being treated in hospitals.
“Food is in very short supply and we cannot feed the injured,” Safieh added. “We are urgently appealing to anyone who can donate to help us.”
Aid groups said Israeli military operations and armed groups were hampering their ability to distribute aid.
The Israeli military organization working on Gaza’s humanitarian crisis said on Saturday that it had led an operation to deliver thousands of food packages, flour and water to the northern Beit Hanoun area. On Friday, it said a United Nations World Food Program truck had transported it to a distribution center in the area.
murder in syria
Iran said on Saturday that unidentified gunmen killed a local staff member at the Iranian embassy in Syria in Damascus, the state-run IRNA news agency said.
The report quoted Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei as saying that “terrorists” opened fire on Davud Vitalaf’s car last Sunday. It does not say what he did with the embassy.
Baghai said Iran believes the Syrian interim government has a responsibility to find and prosecute those behind the killings. Iran was a key ally of recently ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad.
Shurafa reported from Deir al-Balah in the Gaza Strip. Associated Press writer Elena Bekatros in Majdal Shams, Golan Heights, contributed to this report.
