The Israeli military said it intercepted a missile fired by Yemen’s Houthi rebels into the country and sounded sirens in central areas, including Tel Aviv, late Monday.

The Houthis have launched drones and missiles at Israel and attacked ships in the Red Sea corridor, and say they will not stop until Israel agrees to a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
Israel’s war in Gaza has killed more than 45,500 people, more than half of them women and children, according to the region’s health ministry. The count makes no distinction between combatants and civilians. The Health Ministry said on Monday that Israeli airstrikes and shelling had killed at least 27 people in the past day alone. Israel insists its forces target only insurgents.
In Syria, Ukraine has pledged support for the new government that ousted Bashar al-Assad, a key ally of Russia in the Middle East. Ukraine’s foreign minister met with Syria’s de facto leader on Monday during a visit to Damascus.
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UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations humanitarian agency announced Monday that Israel had allowed a team from the United Nations and the Palestinian Red Crescent Society to deliver medicine, food and water to critically ill patients in northern Gaza a day earlier.
The United Nations said the patients were evacuated by Israeli forces from Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza and taken to a defunct Indonesian hospital.
“Ten patients were evacuated from the hospital, four of whom were arrested by Israeli forces at checkpoints leaving the area,” the UN Humanitarian Office, known as OCHA, said in a statement.
“Seven patients and 15 caregivers and health workers remain at the facility, which has sustained significant damage and does not have the capacity to provide medical care,” the report said.
The United Nations Humanitarian Office has warned that Israel’s onslaught on medical and humanitarian access in the Gaza Strip and relentless attacks that inflict casualties on civilians daily are destroying Palestinians’ means of survival.
OCHA stressed that humanitarian access to Gaza remains hampered.
The Israeli military announced that it had intercepted a missile launched from Yemen, and that across Gaza “over the past three days, more than 60% of 42 UN-coordinated movements have been rejected, intercepted or obstructed on the ground.” announced.
TEL AVIV, ISRAEL – The Israeli military said it intercepted a missile fired toward the country by Yemen’s Houthi rebels and set off sirens in central Israel, including Tel Aviv, late Monday. Israeli rescue team Magen David Adom reported no injuries.
The Houthis have launched drones and missiles at Israel and attacked ships in the Red Sea corridor, and say they will not stop until Israel agrees to a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
Israel has carried out two waves of heavy attacks in Yemen in recent weeks in response to missile attacks. The launch raised the possibility of further Israeli retaliation.
At a UN Security Council meeting on Monday, Israel’s UN Ambassador Danny Danon vowed that Israel would respond decisively to the Houthi attack. Wounded Palestinians speak of harsh treatment by Israeli soldiers as they are chased out of hospital
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Injured Palestinians expelled by Israeli forces from a hospital in northern Gaza over the weekend have described harrowing conditions in which they were forced to wear their underwear for hours in the cold winter weather.
“At 4am they besieged the hospital and burned down all the buildings around it,” said Wissam Warsh, 45, a father of five who had been receiving treatment at Kamal Adwan Hospital for almost a week. said. He said the soldiers forced the hospital’s director, Dr. Hassam Abu Safiyah, to remove all the patients before detaining them.
“They told him over the loudspeaker that he had 10 minutes to evacuate and began firing artillery around the hospital as a pressure tactic,” Warsh said. He and other patients are being treated at Gaza City’s Ahli Hospital and spoke to The Associated Press from their hospital beds on Sunday.
The Israeli military said its troops entered the hospital because Hamas militants were using it as a base, and said more than 240 militants, including Abu Safiyah, had been captured. Hospital officials denied these claims.
Other patients said the Israeli military refused them food and water.
“The most difficult thing was that, in addition to being insulted, we were cold and in the winter and couldn’t find clothes. Every moment was difficult,” said Ramadan, a patient at the hospital. Al-Aswad said.
Staff at Kamal Adwan Hospital said it had been attacked multiple times in the past three months as Israeli forces launched an offensive against regrouped Hamas fighters in northern Gaza. Israel has effectively sealed off the areas of Jabaliya, Beit Hanun, and Beit Rahiya from food and medical aid. Syria’s new ruler cracks down on militias believed to be supporters of Assad
Adra, Syria – Syria’s new government sent dozens of soldiers to the Damascus suburb of Adra on Monday to search for suspected militia members loyal to ousted President Bashar al-Assad, and military police vehicles were seen picking up detainees. It was announced that he was seen transporting the.
“A security operation was carried out in the town of Adra, leading to the arrest of a militia leader in the area,” said security official Abu Yaarb, who declined to give his full name in accordance with regulations. He added that five militia leaders were detained.
Last week, clashes broke out in several cities across Syria between Assad supporters and the new government led by Islamic rebels.
Activists and observers say dozens of Syrians have been killed in acts of revenge since the fall of Assad’s regime, the majority of them from the minority Alawite community, an offshoot of Assad’s Shiite Islam. It is said that he is from
Written by Leo Correa and Gais Alsayed. Family of Gaza hospital director pleads for release
JERUSALEM — The family of a hospital director in northern Gaza is pleading with the international community and the Israeli military to release Dr. Hassam Abu Safiyah after he was captured by soldiers over the weekend.
Abu Safiyah’s family said she was being held in frigid conditions at the Israeli camp Sde Teyman, where she has no access to medical treatment and has been heavily criticized for its inhumane conditions. .
Israeli military spokesman Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani said Abu Safiyah was “currently being questioned regarding possible involvement in terrorist activities.”
Over the weekend, the Israeli military expelled staff and patients from Kamal Adwan Hospital, detained 240 people it said were extremists, and brought them for interrogation in Israel. Without providing evidence, the military said some of the insurgents tried to hide in the ambulance posing as patients.
Israel claimed Hamas was using the facility, a charge denied by hospital officials.
Israel’s recent military offensive in northern Gaza has left the area largely isolated, with little access to medical or other aid to hospitals.
The International Committee of the Red Cross said on Monday that Israeli operations had “devastated the health system in northern Gaza,” noting that Kamal Adwan Hospital and hospitals in Indonesia were now “completely dysfunctional.” Ukraine’s foreign minister visits Damascus and pledges support for new Syria
DAMASCUS, SYRIA – Ukraine’s foreign minister met Syria’s de facto leader Ahmad al-Ahmad al-Syria in Damascus on Monday, days after Kiev announced a large shipment of flour to the country following the ouster of Russian ally President Bashar al-Assad. I met with Schaller.
Syria is gradually distancing itself from Iran and Russia and rekindling ties with Western and Gulf Arab states that opposed Assad’s regime, as well as Turkey, which supported the rebels during the civil war.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he would send 500 tons of flour to Syria through the United Nations World Food Program to help improve Ukraine’s food security and economic crisis. According to the United Nations, about 90% of Syrians live in poverty and more than half do not know where their next meal will come from.
“The Ukrainian delegation held important talks with the Syrian government, the leader of Ahmed al-Shalah, and ministers. I support the restoration of the
Foreign Minister Andriy Sibikha said, “I hope that the new Syria will become a country that respects international law,” and that Ukraine is ready to share its experience in evidence gathering and investigations to hold war criminals accountable. He said there is.
“Russia and the Assad regime have supported each other because they are based on violence and torture,” said Syria, appointing first female interim central bank president.
BEIRUT – Syria on Monday appointed its first female interim central bank head in a bid to revive its devastated economy after the fall of Assad’s dynasty.
Maysa Sabreen is the second person appointed to a leadership role under Ahmad al-Shallah and his Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, who led the offensive to topple Assad in early December. She is a woman of
Mr. Sabreen was the first deputy governor of the central bank.
She inherited a dire financial crisis that followed a decade of civil war, misgovernment and sanctions, resulting in a significant decline in the value of the Syrian pound against the US dollar. The United Nations estimates that about 90% of Syrians live in poverty. Turkey ready to export electricity to Syria and Lebanon
ANKARA, Turkey – Turkey is ready to export electricity to Syria and Lebanon to help address power shortages, Turkey’s energy minister says, as Turkish delegation heads to assess Syria’s energy infrastructure He added that he was already in Damascus.
Energy and Natural Resources Minister Alparslan Bayraktar also said on Monday that the Turkish delegation includes experts who will assess how Syria’s oil and gas can be used to improve the economy.
Bayraktar was quoted by the state-run Anadolu Agency as saying, “Once we check the status of the power grid, the situation will become a little clearer.”
He said the civil war has significantly reduced Syria’s ability to supply electricity.
“The majority of the population uses generators to meet their electricity needs,” he says. “There is a serious need for power.”
Turkey has backed the rebels who ousted President Bashar al-Assad and has said it is ready to support the new government.
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