Prime Minister Netanyahu says in statement: “Anyone who harms Israel will pay a heavy price.”
A statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said:
This morning, the air force struck the port of Hodeidah and strategic Houthi targets deep in Yemen.
We did this in response to repeated Houthi attacks on civilian targets inside Israel. Last night they attacked a school in Ramat Gan.
They’re not just attacking us, they’re attacking the whole world. They are attacking international shipping and commercial routes. Therefore, when Israel takes action against the Houthis, it is acting on behalf of the entire international community. Americans, like many other people, understand this very well.
After Hamas, Hezbollah, and Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime, the Houthis are almost the last remaining force in Iran’s axis of evil. They are discovering, and will continue to discover, the hard way that anyone who harms Israel will pay a very high price.
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Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 10 Palestinians and injured several others at two shelters housing displaced families in eastern Gaza City, doctors told Reuters on Thursday.
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Thousands of people demonstrate in support of Syrian Democratic Forces in northeastern Syria
Thousands of people demonstrated in northeast Syria on Thursday in support of U.S.-backed Kurdish-led forces that have been resisting Turkish-backed fighters for weeks, an AFP correspondent said.
The show of support for the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) comes after Islamist-led rebels overthrew Syria’s longtime strongman Bashar al-Assad earlier this month.
Turkish Defense Ministry officials said Thursday that Ankara will continue its military preparations until the Kurdish fighters are “disarmed.”
For the first time, demonstrators in Qamishli raised the three-star flag adopted by Syria’s new authorities, symbolizing the uprising against the Assad regime that began in 2011, the correspondent said.
The demonstrators chanted, “Long live the resistance of the Self-Defense Forces,” and also chanted, “The Syrian people are one,” and “No to war in our region, no to Turkey’s attack.”
Some carried flags of the semi-autonomous Kurdish government in northeastern Syria and the SDF, which spearheaded the fight to defeat Islamic State jihadists in Syria in 2019.
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Israel on Thursday launched attacks on ports and energy infrastructure in Yemen’s Houthi-held areas and threatened further attacks against Iran-aligned militants, who have fired hundreds of missiles into Israel over the past year.
The Israeli military said an Israeli fighter jet intercepted a missile heading for central Israel while it was in flight, destroying a school building in Ramat Efal, west of Tel Aviv. A military spokesperson said it was fallen debris.
The Houthis, who stand in solidarity with the Palestinians in Israel’s war with Hamas and have launched attacks on international shipping near Yemen since November 2023, attacked Tel Aviv overnight and fired two ballistic missiles. He said the attack was on a “precise military target.”
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Prime Minister Netanyahu says in statement: “Anyone who harms Israel will pay a heavy price.”
A statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said:
This morning, the air force struck the port of Hodeidah and strategic Houthi targets deep in Yemen.
We did this in response to repeated attacks by the Houthis against civilian targets in Israel. Last night they attacked a school in Ramat Gan.
They’re not just attacking us, they’re attacking the whole world. They are attacking international shipping and commercial routes. Therefore, when Israel takes action against the Houthis, it is acting on behalf of the entire international community. Americans, like many other people, understand this very well.
After Hamas, Hezbollah, and Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime, the Houthis are almost the last remaining force in Iran’s axis of evil. They are discovering, and will continue to discover, the hard way that those who harm Israel will pay a very high price.
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Israeli airstrikes hit homes in central Gaza early Thursday, killing five people and wounding seven others, including a boy and two women.
Casualties at Magaji refugee camp were taken to Aqsa Hospital, where authorities confirmed the death toll. An Associated Press reporter counted the number of bodies.
Some people gathered at the strike site to pull people trapped under the rubble of the partially destroyed building, but only one person used a shovel.
“No place is safe. No tent, no house, no place in Gaza is safe. Everything is covered. If you go out, you don’t expect to come back,” said a Magazi resident. Umm Abed Darwish said.
Thursday’s deaths bring the reported death toll to more than 45,000 Palestinians currently killed in the Gaza war waged between Israel and Hamas militants since October 2023. The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza does not distinguish between civilians and combatants, but says: More than half of the dead are women and children.
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Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) accused Israel of carrying out “ethnic cleansing” in the Gaza Strip in a report chronicling the 14-month conflict released on Thursday. The report records 41 attacks on MSF personnel, including airstrikes on medical facilities and direct fire on humanitarian convoys, AFP news agency said. The NGO said it had been forced to evacuate hospitals and health centers on 17 occasions. “There are clear signs of ethnic cleansing, with Palestinians being forcibly displaced, trapped and bombed,” MSF Executive Director Christopher Lockyear said. Israel has repeatedly rejected accusations that its military operations in Gaza amount to genocide.
Israeli warplanes have launched widespread airstrikes against Houthi targets in Yemen, killing at least nine people in the port city of Hodeidah. According to Israeli media, dozens of fighter jets, as well as refueling and intelligence planes, took part in the attack. The raids follow reports that Israel is planning an armed attack on Yemen following a recent increase in Houthi attacks against Israel, including two in the past week. .
Israel’s “long hand” will reach the leaders of Yemen’s Houthi movement, Defense Minister Israel Katz vowed Thursday after air strikes on several parts of the country overnight. “I warn the leaders of the Houthi terrorist organization: Israel’s long hand will reach you too,” Katz said in a post on X. Those who cause harm will be harmed seven times as much. ”
Four Palestinians were killed and three seriously injured when Israeli forces attacked a vehicle in the Turkalum refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said on Thursday. The Israeli military said it had carried out a joint operation with Shin Bet security forces in Turkham, but did not provide further details.
Contrary to US announcements on the issue, there is no ceasefire agreement between Turkey and the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northern Syria, a Turkish Defense Ministry official said on Thursday. Turkey believes Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) forces will “liberate” areas occupied by the Kurdish militia PKK/YPG in northern Syria, the official said.
The US-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) vowed on Thursday to fight Turkey and Turkish-backed groups in the northern Syrian city of Kobani. The SDF is led by the YPG militia, which Turkey considers an extension of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), whose militants have been fighting the Turkish state for four decades.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Russia is not defeated in Syria and has made an offer to Damascus’s new ruler over a Russian military base in Damascus. Putin said he had not yet met President Bashar al-Assad but planned to do so and would ask him about the fate of missing American journalist Austin Tice.
U.S. and Arab mediators have been working around the clock to finalize a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, according to people close to the talks, and medics in the Gaza Strip on Thursday killed 13 Palestinians in an Israeli airstrike. announced that he had died. Mediators aim to strike a deal in talks between Egypt and Qatar that would suspend the 14-month war in the Hamas-controlled enclave, including hostages taken from Israel and detained Palestinians. This includes the release of prisoners of war on October 7, 2023. According to Reuters, by Israel.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday condemned Israel’s occupation of Syrian territory. He also feels that Israel has no intention of withdrawing its troops from Syria, Reuters reported.
Israel’s military offensive in Gaza since October 7, 2023 has left at least 45,129 Palestinians dead and 107,338 injured, the Gaza Ministry of Health said in a statement on Thursday.
Iraq began the return of Syrian soldiers to their homeland on Thursday, according to state media.
The human rights report argues that Israel’s restriction of water supplies in the Gaza Strip to levels below minimum requirements amounts to genocide and extermination, a crime against humanity. Human Rights Watch (HRW) investigated Israeli attacks on water infrastructure in the Gaza Strip throughout the 14-month war in Gaza.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday condemned Israel’s occupation of Syrian territory.
He also feels that Israel has no intention of withdrawing its troops from Syria, Reuters reported.
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Four Palestinians were killed and three seriously injured when Israeli forces attacked a vehicle in the Turkalum refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said on Thursday.
The Israeli military said it had carried out a joint operation with Shin Bet security forces in Turkham, but did not provide further details.
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The US-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) vowed on Thursday to fight Turkey and Turkish-backed groups in the northern Syrian city of Kobani.
The SDF is led by the YPG militia, which Turkey considers an extension of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), whose militants have been fighting the Turkish state for four decades.
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