Rafah health officials sound alarm after Israeli attack kills Palestinians
Several Palestinians were killed and others were injured, most of them seriously, as a result of Israeli army shelling of a house this evening in the Yabna refugee camp in the centre of Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. Footage obtained by Al Jazeera showed the arrival of the injured children and the elderly at the Kuwaiti hospital in Rafah.
Dr Suhaib al-Hams, the director of the Kuwaiti hospital, confirmed the arrival of the victims, telling Al Jazeera that the “Rafah governorate has become a continuous target of [the Israeli army].”
“The Israeli occupation uses internationally prohibited weapons, and the type of injuries we receive is unprecedented, such as amputation of limbs and laceration of the body,” al-Hams said. Dr Jamal al-Hams, one of the medical staff at the Hospital, said that most of the injuries that reached the hospital are serious, and that one of the injured died as a result of his severe injury.
Houthis are still active as well
Houthis say they carried out military operations in Gulf of Aden, Indian Ocean
Yemen’s Houthi group has said its fighters targeted the Maersk Yorktown ship and an American warship in the Gulf of Aden.
The group also targeted the Israeli ship MSC Veracruz in the Indian Ocean, its military spokesman Yahya Sarea said in a televised speech.
The Houthis have been attacking commercial and military shipping in the Red Sea since the early days of Israel’s war on Gaza, prompting airstrikes by the US and UK on targets belonging to the group inside Yemen. The group says the attacks will continue until a ceasefire is reached in Gaza.
