TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — A rocket fired from Yemen hit an space of Tel Aviv in a single day, leaving 16 individuals injured by shattered glass, the Israeli army stated Saturday, days after Israeli airstrikes hit Houthi rebels who’ve been launching missiles in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.
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Another 14 individuals sustained minor accidents as they rushed to shelters when air raid sirens sounded earlier than daybreak Saturday, the army stated.
The Houthis issued a press release on Telegram saying they’d aimed a hypersonic ballistic missile at a army goal, which they didn’t establish. Israel’s army stated it was investigating, including that “we emphasize that aerial protection isn’t airtight.”
“A flash of sunshine, a blow and we fell to the bottom. Big mess, damaged glasses in all places,” stated Bar Katz, a resident of a broken constructing.
The assault got here after Israeli airstrikes on Yemen’s Houthi-held capital, Sanaa, and port metropolis of Hodeida killed not less than 9 individuals Thursday. The strikes got here hours after a missile from Yemen hit a college constructing in central Israel. The Houthis additionally claimed a drone strike focusing on an unspecified army goal in central Israel on Thursday.
Israel’s army says the Iran-backed Houthis have launched greater than 200 missiles and drones in the course of the Israel-Hamas warfare in Gaza. The Houthis have additionally attacked delivery within the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden and say they received’t cease till there’s a ceasefire in Gaza.
The Israeli strikes Thursday brought on “appreciable harm” to the Houthi-controlled Red Sea ports that may result in the “quick and important discount in port capability,” U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric stated. The Hodeida port has been key for meals shipments into Yemen in its decade-long civil warfare.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stated either side’ assaults threat additional escalation within the area.
Israeli strikes in Gaza kill a dozen kids
Mourners in Gaza held funerals for 19 individuals — 12 of them kids — killed in Israeli strikes on Friday and in a single day.
One strike hit a residential constructing within the built-up Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, killing not less than seven Palestinians, together with 5 kids and one lady, and injuring 16 others, well being officers stated.
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In Gaza City, a strike on a home killed 12 individuals, together with seven kids and two girls, in accordance with Al-Ahli Hospital the place the our bodies had been taken.
One man cradled a tiny shroud-wrapped physique as mourners gathered on the hospital in Gaza City. Women comforted one another as they wept.
Overall, Gaza’s Health Ministry stated 21 individuals had been killed over the previous 24 hours.
More than 45,200 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since October 2023, when a Hamas assault in Israel killed about 1,200 individuals and triggered the 14-month warfare. The well being ministry doesn’t distinguish between civilians and combatants however has stated greater than half of fatalities are girls and youngsters.
Israel faces heavy worldwide criticism over the unprecedented ranges of civilian deaths in Gaza. It says it solely targets militants and blames Hamas for civilian deaths as a result of its fighters function in residential areas.
Urgent attraction for provides for northern Gaza hospital
Gaza’s Health Ministry issued an pressing attraction for medical and meals provides to be delivered to Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya in largely remoted northern Gaza, whereas the hospital director described circumstances as dire, as Israel’s army presses its newest offensive.
The ministry reported steady gunfire and Israeli shelling close to the hospital, saying “shells have struck the third ground and the hospital’s entrances, making a state of panic.”
Hospital director Dr. Husam Abu Safiyeh stated the power confronted “extreme shortages” and asserted that requests for important medical provides and methods to keep up oxygen, water and electrical energy programs “have largely gone unmet.”
He stated 72 wounded individuals had been being handled on the hospital.
“Food may be very scarce, and we can not present meals for the wounded,” Safiyeh added. “We are urgently calling on anybody who can present provides to assist us.”
Aid teams have stated Israeli army operations and armed gangs have hindered their capability to distribute help.
The Israeli army group coping with humanitarian affairs for Gaza stated Saturday it had led an operation delivering 1000’s of meals packages, flour and water to the Beit Hanoun space within the north. It stated vans with the U.N. World Food Program transported them to distribution facilities within the space Friday.
A killing in Syria
Iran on Saturday stated unknown gunmen had killed an area staffer of the Iranian Embassy in Syria in Damascus, the official IRNA information company stated.
Its report quoted Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei as saying “terrorists” opened hearth on Davood Bitaraf’s automobile final Sunday. It didn’t say what he did with the embassy.
Baghaei stated Iran considers Syria’s interim authorities chargeable for discovering and prosecuting these behind the killing. Iran had been a key ally of just lately ousted Syrian chief Bashar Assad.
Shurafa reported from Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip. Associated Press writers Elena Becatoros in Majdal Shams, Golan Heights, contributed to this report.
