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The Houthis — a rebel group long enmeshed in a civil war in Yemen — has launched a series of drone and missile assaults on Israeli and American targets since Hamas killed at least 1,200 people on Oct. 7 in southern Israel. These strikes are the latest in a series of attacks on Houthi weapons before they are launched against international shipping lanes and US warships in the region. LONDON and JERUSALEM -- While Israeli’s president Isaac Herzog was in Abu Dhabi on a historic visit on Monday, United Arab Emirates officials announced that a ballistic missile fired by Yemen's Houthi rebels had been intercepted, the third such attack in three weeks.
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The US carried out airstrikes on "a number of" Houthi drones in Yemen, US official says
They can also navigate and change direction at low level, complicating the task of air defence forces. While some aid has begun moving, the United Nations said on Friday that Israel was still blocking its humanitarian convoys from reaching northern Gaza. Fifteen out of Gaza’s 36 hospitals are partially functional, including six in the north, according to the World Health Organization. The W.H.O. said on Friday that after more than two weeks of trying, its staff members were able to reach the Gaza Strip’s largest hospital, Al-Shifa, Hospital in northern Gaza and deliver medical supplies and 9,300 liters of fuel.
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But U.S. officials acknowledged that the Houthis still have about three-quarters of their ability to fire missiles and drones at ships making voyages through the Red Sea. An anti-ship ballistic missile fired by Houthi fighters struck a U.S.-owned cargo vessel off the coast of Yemen on Monday, but the ship and its crew were not seriously harmed, according to the U.S. military’s Central Command. The incident involving USS Gravely came just hours before US forces struck and destroyed a Houthi surface-to-air missile that was prepared to launch in Yemen and "presented an imminent threat" to American aircraft in the region, the military said on Wednesday.
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The vessel was hit at about midnight local time on Tuesday while it was passing through the Bab-el-Mandeb, the Central Command said on X. The Bab el-Mandeb is a strait between the Horn of Africa and the Middle East that connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden, which opens into the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean. In the past, these missiles have been intercepted by US destroyers in the area at a range of eight miles or more, the officials said. But the USS Gravely had to use its Close-In Weapon System (CIWS) for the first time since the US began intercepting the Houthi missiles late last year, which ultimately succeeded in downing the missile, officials said. It's the first time Netanyahu has called for an end of the mission on camera and specifically accused UNRWA officials of being complicit in the October 7 Hamas attacks against Israel.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society said on Monday it had resumed emergency and rescue services in Gaza City, more than two months after an Israeli ground offensive forced it to halt operations and shut down its hospital. The French foreign ministry said two of those injured were young French nationals, but it gave no names or ages. Both assailants, residents of the Hebron area in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, were arrested, the police said in a statement. Their motivations were still being investigated, but the incident was being treated as a terrorist attack, according to Dean Elsdunne, a spokesman for the police.
The Shin Bet, Israel’s internal intelligence agency, identified the suspects as Ahmad Zidat, 25, and Mahmoud Zidat, 44. It said they were members of the same family from the village of Bani Naim, and that they were among the Palestinians who are barred from entering Israel. “As a result of the impact, the vessel suffered limited damage to a cargo hold but is stable and is heading out of the area,” the company said in a statement. US Arleigh Burke-class destroyers are equipped with at least one CIWS, which features a close-range, radar-guided automatic 20 mm cannon that can fire up to 4,500 rounds a minute and has an effective range out to about two nautical miles. The Israel-Gaza war has gone on for six months, and tensions have spilled into the surrounding region.
For several months, the Iran-backed rebels have relentlessly fired one-way attack drones and missiles into key waterways off the coast of Yemen. Many of these threats have been shot down by US warships — and sometimes by British or French forces — though some of the munitions have struck commercial vessels transiting the region. Britain took part in strikes led by the United States that aimed to reduce the ability of the Houthis, a group backed by Iran that operates in Yemen, to target shipping after more than 20 attacks on commercial shipping in recent weeks.
The video included clips, apparently recorded earlier, of the two hostages who it claimed were killed, Yossi Sharabi, 53, and Itai Svirsky, 38, speaking while looking into a video camera, and then showed video apparently showing their bodies. It included narration by the hostage who reportedly survived, Noa Argamani, 26, who told of her companions’ deaths and described being wounded, herself. “We do not seek conflict with Iran, but we will not hesitate to act to protect our forces and support the defense of Israel,” the statement said. U.S. officials worry about a multifront war breaking out and feared the Damascus strike could lead to attacks on U.S. military personnel based in Iraq, Syria or other parts of the Middle East.
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Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarea said in a statement on Monday that the group had carried out a military operation targeting an American ship in the Gulf of Aden with “a number” of missiles. The Houthis acted “in defense of the Palestinian people in Gaza, who are being exposed, until this moment, to the most horrific type of massacres by the Zionist entity,” he said. The missile struck the Gibraltar Eagle, a bulk carrier flagged to the Marshall Islands, but caused no significant damage or injuries, the U.S. military said in a post on social media.
A Middle Eastern official, however, said the medications would be sent to the Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza under Qatari supervision before being distributed to the hostages and Palestinian civilians. A Qatari official said representatives of the Health Ministry would transport the medications to the hostages. To celebrate his goal, Mr. Jehezkel jogged to the corner of the field, where a group of photographers was positioned. He pointed to a handwritten message on a band of tape on his left wrist that included a six-pointed Star of David and “100 days, 7/10” — a reference to the start of the war between Israel and Hamas on Oct. 7.
The Houthis have another long-range missile, the Toufan, but unlike a low-flying cruise weapon that sneaks under radar beams, it flies at high altitude and is more vulnerable to air defences. One of the most complicated aspects of the deal was how to get the medications to the hostages, many of whom are believed to be held in underground tunnels and rooms. At a news conference on Saturday, Osama Hamdan, a spokesman for Hamas, spoke of the challenge of overcoming what he called the “security aspect” of delivering medications, without elaborating.
Among those on show was a derivative of the Iranian liquid-propellant Qiam ballistic missile. "We've been firing SM-2s, we've been firing SM-6s, and just over the weekend, SM-3s, to actually counter the ballistic missile threat that's come from Iran," Del Toro said at a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense hearing on Tuesday. The strikes hit the Al-Shuhada Mosque in the city of Deir al-Balah, according to the doctor. Video obtained by CNN from the west of the city showed destruction at the mosque, with civilians trying to rescue people from under the rubble. Video from the hospital showed multiple bodies in plastic bags Sunday and many people, including children, being treated in the emergency room.
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