A rocket fired from Yemen hit an area of Tel Aviv late last night, injuring 16 people with broken glass, the Israeli military said on Saturday. Israeli airstrikes on Houthi rebels Who are firing missiles to show solidarity with the Palestinians. Gaza.
Another 14 people suffered minor injuries as they rushed to shelters when air raid sirens sounded before dawn on Saturday, the military said.
The Houthis released a statement on Telegram saying they had fired 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 hermetic.”
“A flash of light, a blow and we're on the ground. Big mess, broken glass everywhere,” said Bar Katz, a resident of one of the damaged buildings.
The attack comes after Israeli airstrikes on Yemen's Houthi-held capital Sanaa and the port city of Hodeida 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 a drone strike on an unspecified military target in central Israel on Thursday.
Israel's military says Iran-backed Houthi rebels have fired more than 200 missiles and drones during the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. The Houthis have also attacked shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden and have said they will not stop until there is a ceasefire in Gaza.
UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Thursday's Israeli strikes had caused “substantial damage” to Houthi-controlled Red Sea ports, which would “immediately and significantly reduce” port capacity. Hodeidah port is a key transit point for food in Yemen's decades-long civil war.
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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that attacks by both sides risked further tensions in the region.
A dozen children were killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza.
Gaza mourners buried 19 people, including 12 children, killed in Israeli airstrikes late Friday and night.
One attack targeted a constructed residential building Nusrat Refugee Camp In central Gaza, at least seven Palestinians, including five children and a woman, were killed and 16 others wounded, 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 carried a small shrouded body as mourners gathered at a hospital in Gaza City. The women were crying and comforting each other.
In total, Gaza's health ministry said 21 people had been killed in the past 24 hours.
More than 45,200 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since October 2023, when a Hamas offensive in Israel killed nearly 1,200 and triggered a 14-month war. The health ministry does not distinguish between civilians and fighters, but has said more than half of the casualties are women and children.
Israel has faced intense international criticism for the unprecedented level of civilian casualties in Gaza. It says it only targets militants and blames Hamas for civilian casualties because its fighters operate in residential areas.
Urgent appeal for supplies for hospital in northern Gaza
Gaza's Ministry of Health issued an urgent appeal for medical and food supplies to Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia in largely isolated northern Gaza, while the hospital's director described the situation as dire, as Israel's army The fresh attack is suppressed.
The ministry reported continuous gunfire and Israeli shelling near the hospital, saying that shells hit the third floor and the entrances of the hospital, creating panic.
The hospital's director, Dr Hussam Abu Safiyya, said the facility was facing “severe shortages” and stressed that requests for essential medical supplies and ways to maintain oxygen, water and electricity systems were “hugely high”. Not done.”
He said that 72 injured are being treated in the hospital.
“Food is very scarce, and we cannot provide food for the wounded,” Safia added. “We are urgently appealing to anyone who can provide supplies to help us.”
Aid groups have said Israeli military operations and armed groups have hampered their ability to distribute aid.
The Israeli military's humanitarian organization for Gaza said on Saturday that it had carried out operations to deliver thousands of food packages, flour and water to the Beit Hanun area in the north. It said trucks from the United Nations World Food Program delivered them to distribution centers in the area on Friday.
Iran said on Saturday that unknown gunmen killed a local staff member of the Iranian embassy. the evening in Damascus, the official IRNA news agency said.
Its report quoted Foreign Ministry spokesman Ismail Baghai as saying that “terrorists” fired at Dawood Batraf's vehicle last Sunday. He did not say what he did with the embassy.
Baghai said Iran holds the Syrian transitional government responsible for finding and prosecuting those behind the killings. Iran has been a key ally of recently deposed Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad.
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