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SvennoJ on 07 March 2024
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Senior member of Hamas’s armed wing gives details of Houthi coordination

A leader in the Qassam Brigades has spoken to Al Jazeera, detailing the close relationship the group has with Yemen’s Houthis, who have been carrying out attacks on commercial and military ships in the Red Sea in sympathy with Palestinians in Gaza.

Here are some of his comments:

  • The Houthis informed the Qassam Brigades that the recent escalation in the Red Sea is due to the Israeli occupation’s intentions to attack Rafah and the continuation of the starvation policy.
  • The Houthis sent the Qassam Brigades a letter to ask for its opinion about negotiations to release the crew of a ship they are holding.
  • The Houthis confirmed that any decision regarding the detained ship and its crew exclusively rests with the Qassam Brigades.
  • The Houthis informed the Qassam Brigades that its strategic decision was to continue the battle of the Red Sea until the aggression stopped and the siege on the Gaza Strip was lifted.
  • Communication and coordination between the Qassam Brigades and the fighting fronts in Lebanon, Yemen and Iraq has been continuing since the first hours of the start of the Al-Aqsa battle.
  • The United States tried directly and through mediators to stop the fighting on each front separately, but its attempts were rejected.
  • The decision of all fronts is not to stop fighting until the aggression on the Gaza Strip stops.


Houthi leader says more missiles launched since October than 8-year war

Houthi leader Abdel-Malik al-Houthi says the Yemeni group has launched more missiles in the past five months than it did during the whole of its eight-year war with the Saudi-led coalition.

He dedicated a televised speech lasting more than 80 minutes to Gaza and Palestinians, and said the Houthi military’s “unprecedented” use of anti-ship missiles and drones shows the importance of the Palestinian cause. The Houthis have been using these weapons to attack commercial and military ships in the Red Sea in sympathy with Palestinians in Gaza.

The Houthi chief also pointed out that Yemenis are coming out in protest each week in large numbers, more frequently and fervently than during Yemen’s war – which started after the group overthrew Yemen’s internationally recognised government in late 2014.

“We seek to offer more to Palestine than we have given to ourselves, our country, and our people,” he said, calling on “millions” more Yemenis to take to the streets on Friday.

Israeli military claims multiple attacks on Hezbollah

The Israeli army has announced several new attacks on southern Lebanon since yesterday. Its spokesman for Arab media, Avichay Adraee, said on X that Israeli warplanes bombed two “military buildings” belonging to Hezbollah in the Aitaroun and Aita al-Shaab areas on Thursday.

Adraee also said Hezbollah launched attacks from Naqoura in the past few hours, which prompted an artillery response. The spokesman also reported the targeting of another Hezbollah military building and a reconnaissance site late Wednesday.

Israeli protesters clash with security forces near Nablus

An Israeli reporter has posted video of Israeli security forces clashing with demonstrators who are protesting the opening of the western Sarra checkpoint in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus.

The video shows one soldier attacking a protester on the ground while another soldier attempts to hold him back.

‘Children dying and fainting in the streets from hunger’

As we reported earlier, at least 83 more people were killed in Israeli attacks over the last day as Israel’s devastating war on Gaza entered its sixth month. In northern Gaza, where only limited aid has reached, Bassam al-Hou said people had run out of essential supplies.

“There is no gas to cook our food on. There is no flour, or rice,” he told AFP in the wasteland of Jabalia, standing beside large, blackened cooking pots among the dusty rubble. He said children “are dying and fainting in the streets from hunger. What can we do?”

Further south, in the ruins of Khan Younis, dozens of people went to inspect their homes and take what belongings they could recover after Israeli forces pulled out of the city centre, AFP reported.

Gaza’s Civil Defence agency said Israeli forces “destroyed all water, sewage, electricity, communications, and road networks” in central Khan Younis.