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SvennoJ on 24 February 2024
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Hezbollah attacks Israeli army position, fires rockets into northern Israel

The Lebanese group says that it targeted the Israeli army’s “headquarters of the Beit Hillal Battalion of the 769th Eastern Regional Brigade” with Katyusha rockets.

In a break from the regular statements published by Hezbollah, the group says that this attack was carried out “in response to the enemy’s attacks on villages and civilian homes, especially in the town of Baraachit”. Meanwhile, our correspondent, along with Israeli media, reports that more than 20 rockets were fired from southern Lebanon towards the Kiryat Shmona settlement in northern Israel.

Al Jazeera’s correspondent also reported that sirens sounded in several areas in the Upper Galilee on the border with Lebanon.

US, UK strikes hit Yemen capital: Reports

The Houthi-affiliated Al Masirah TV is reporting that US and UK forces have struck targets in Sanaa. The Houthi-affiliated media outlet Al-Masirah said US and UK forces carried out three raids in the capital Sanaa, hitting an insecticide factory in al-Nahda neighborhood in al-Thawra District.

The US Central Command says American and UK forces with support from its western allies, have hit 18 Houthi targets. “These strikes from this multilateral coalition targeted areas used by the Houthis to attack international merchant vessels and naval ships in the region,” CENTCOM said in a post on X.

“Illegal Houthi attacks have disrupted humanitarian aid bound for Yemen, harmed Middle Eastern economies, and caused environmental damage.” 

Houthis target US operated fuel tanker in Gulf of Aden

Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis targeted MV Torm Thor, a US-flagged, owned, and operated oil tanker, in the Gulf of Aden, the group’s military spokesman Yahya Sarea has said in a televised speech.

We earlier reported the US army’s Central Command saying its ship the USS Mason shot down one anti-ship ballistic missile in the Gulf of Aden, that was most likely targeting the Torm Thor.

Anti-government protest in Tel Aviv

Protesters take part in an anti-government demonstration in the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv on February 24, 2024. Members of Israeli security forces mounted on horses try to disperse protesters



Israeli security forces clash with protesters

Israeli police use water cannon on protesters

We reported earlier that protesters are demonstrating across Israel for a deal to release the captives in Gaza and/or for Netanyahu to step down as prime minister. Israeli police are now using force against protesters in Tel Aviv.

The Israeli police say they have arrested 21 people near the Kirya complex in Tel Aviv, rising from five earlier in the night. The police say this demonstration was illegal, with protesters blocking roads and clashing with its personnel.

“At the same time as the approved protest, a number of protesters gathered at the intersection illegally and began to break the order and confront the police. At the end of the approved protest, most of the protesters dispersed, when dozens of the protesters began to descend on the Kaplan intersection and violated the order along with the rest of the protesters who were present there,” the Israeli police wrote on X.



Demonstrators call for end to Gaza war in Berlin

The rally in the German capital saw hundreds of protesters calling for an immediate halt to the ongoing war in Gaza. Demonstrators marched in the streets brandishing banners carrying messages like “Freedom for Palestine” and “Stop the Genocide”.

They join protesters around the world today in countries such as Italy, Holland and the UK.

Al Haq condemns killing of human rights defender

The legal rights organisation denounces the killing of Dana Yaghy with 40 members of her family in the besieged Gaza Strip. “We extend our deepest condolences to her remaining family and our dear colleagues at the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights – PCHR,” the organisation says in a statement.

Yaghy was killed in an Israeli bombing along with 40 members of her family, including 10 children in Deir el-Balah. The 27-year-old was killed a few days after her colleague Nour Abu Al-Nour, “both fantastic young lawyers”, the organisation says.