A rocket fired from Yemen hit an space of Tel Aviv in a single day, leaving 16 folks injured by shattered glass, the Israeli navy stated Saturday, days after Israeli airstrikes hit Houthi rebels who’ve been launching missiles in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.
One other 14 folks had minor accidents as they rushed to shelters when air raid sirens sounded earlier than daybreak, the navy stated.
The Houthis in a press release on Telegram stated they’d aimed a hypersonic ballistic missile at a navy goal that they didn’t determine. Israel’s navy stated it was investigating, including that “we emphasize that aerial protection just isn’t airtight.”
“A flash of sunshine, a blow and we fell to the bottom. Huge mess, damaged glasses in every single place,” stated Bar Katz, a resident of a broken constructing.
CENTCOM Conducts Airstrikes In opposition to Iran-Backed Houthi Missile Storage and Command/Management Services in Yemen
TAMPA, Fla. – U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces performed precision airstrikes towards a missile storage facility and a command-and-control facility operated by… pic.twitter.com/YRWWQJIweP
— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) December 21, 2024
The Houthis’ media workplace later reported airstrikes on Yemen’s Houthi-held capital, Sanaa. U.S. forces performed airstrikes towards a missile storage facility and a command facility operated by the Houthis, the U.S. Central Command stated in a press release on X.
The assault on Tel Aviv got here after Israeli airstrikes on Sanaa and the port metropolis of Hodeida killed no less than 9 folks Thursday. The strikes got here hours after a missile from Yemen hit a faculty constructing in central Israel. The Houthis additionally claimed a drone strike concentrating on an unspecified navy goal in central Israel that day.
Israel’s navy says the Iran-backed Houthis have launched greater than 200 missiles and drones through the 14-month Israel-Hamas struggle in Gaza. The Houthis have additionally attacked delivery within the Crimson Sea and Gulf of Aden and say they gained’t cease till there’s a ceasefire in Gaza.
The Israeli strikes Thursday brought on “appreciable injury” to the Houthi-controlled Crimson Sea ports, U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric stated. The Hodeida port has been key for meals shipments into Yemen in its decade-long civil struggle.
Israeli strikes in Gaza kill a dozen kids
Mourners in Gaza held funerals for 19 Palestinians — 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 no less than seven, together with 5 kids and one girl, and injuring 16 others, well being officers stated.
In Gaza Metropolis, a strike on a home killed 12, together with seven kids and two ladies, in keeping with Al-Ahli Hospital the place the our bodies have been taken. One man cradled a tiny shroud-wrapped physique as mourners gathered.
Later Saturday, al-Awda Hospital stated an airstrike hit a home in Nuseirat and killed 4 folks together with two kids, with 14 different folks wounded. Israel’s navy stated it was checking the report.
And Saturday evening, massive explosions might be seen on the Gaza skyline. 5 our bodies arrived quickly afterward at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah.
Greater than 45,200 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since October 2023, when a Hamas assault in Israel killed about 1,200 folks and triggered the struggle. Gaza’s Well being Ministry doesn’t distinguish between civilians and combatants however has stated greater than half of fatalities are ladies and kids.
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.
Northern Gaza hospital says it’s informed to evacuate
The director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya in largely remoted northern Gaza stated in an internet message late Saturday that Israel’s navy had informed the ability to evacuate.
Dr. Husam Abu Safiyeh asserted that the intensive care unit, maternity ward and different departments have been being focused, and stated evacuating would imply transferring 66 sufferers.
Israel’s navy in response to questions stated it was “not conscious of any strikes within the space of the hospital right now.” There was no quick response to questions concerning the reported evacuation order.
Gaza’s Well being Ministry earlier reported steady gunfire and Israeli shelling close to the hospital, and it issued an pressing attraction for medical and meals provides to be delivered to the ability as Israel’s navy pressed its newest offensive.
Safiyeh has stated the ability confronted “extreme shortages” together with of meals and asserted that requests for important medical provides and methods to keep up oxygen, water and electrical energy programs “have largely gone unmet.”
Assist teams have stated Israeli navy operations and armed gangs have hindered their skill to distribute support.
The Israeli navy 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..
A killing in Syria
Iran on Saturday stated unknown gunmen killed an area staffer of the Iranian Embassy in Syria in Damascus final Sunday, the official IRNA information company stated.
Its report quoted Overseas Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei as saying “terrorists” opened hearth on Davood Bitaraf’s automobile. It didn’t say what he did with the embassy. The taking pictures occurred the day that opposition fighters took Damascus and ousted Syrian chief Bashar Assad.
Baghaei stated Iran considers Syria’s interim authorities chargeable for discovering and prosecuting these behind the killing. Iran had been a key Assad ally.
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