Merchant ship hit in Red Sea off Yemen’s coast: Monitors

The group’s military spokesman Yahya Saree has made the announcement in a televised speech. The ship was hit and it is facing the danger of sinking, Saree added.

Moreover, they also carried out a joint military operation with Islamic Resistance in Iraq targeting sites in Israel’s Ashdod and Haifa.

The Houthi-affiliated media outlet Al Masirah says US and UK forces struck the al-Jabana area west of Hodeidah.

The Houthis have attacked ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden and fired missiles and drones at Israeli targets in a show of support for Palestinians in war-battered Gaza, drawing anger from Western nations.

The US and allies have bombed Houthi targets in Yemen since January, but the military campaign has not deterred Houthi attacks. The group pledged to continue targeting Israel-linked ships as long as the war on Gaza, which has killed more than 37,000 people, continues.

Mohamad Elmasry, a professor of media studies at the Doha Institute of Graduate Studies, says the US has been “very misleading” about the latest ceasefire plan for Gaza.

“It’s a huge mess. Things are very, very convoluted, in part because the US is being very misleading, I think deliberately misleading,” Elmasry told Al Jazeera.

He added that Israel has still not officially accepted the ceasefire plan.

“No matter how many times Blinken says it, it’s not going to make it true – Israel has not accepted anything,” he said. “Israel has repeatedly said that they are going to continue this war. That is in direct violation, or in direct contradiction to what the ceasefire proposal, presented by the US, lays out.”

“Nothing has changed. Hamas wants a permanent end to the hostilities, and Israel wants the right to continue the war. And until that equation changes, we’re not going to move anywhere,” Elmasry added.


I don't get what Biden's plan was with this 'Israeli proposal'. Try to show he's doing everything and blame it on Hamas that there still is no ceasefire? How dumb does he think people are. Those that he needs back for the elections know it is Israel throwing a wrench in the negotiations every time. They know Hamas already accepted a ceasefire over a month ago. They also know as long as Biden keeps providing weapons and political cover, Netanyahu won't stop.

Biden is shooting himself in both feet and legs by putting his name behind this ceasefire. As long as he's not prepared to put conditions on Israel, he's just making himself look like a bigger fool, pissing away the last remaining bit of his credibility. With this Hamas blame game he's only providing more fuel for Fox news and Trump supporters...

Mayor Eric Adams says the homes of museum director Anne Pasternak and members of the museum’s board of trustees were among the locations hit.

Pro-Palestinians threw red paint across their entrances in opposition to the Israeli war on Gaza.

Red paint was also splashed across the front of buildings associated with the German consulate, as well as the Permanent Observer Mission of the State of Palestine to the United Nations, where flyers critical of the Palestinian Authority and its president, Mahmoud Abbas, were also scattered outside the building.

_{Red paint covers portions of the entrance to the German consulate building, Wednesday, June 12}

Footage shared on local Palestinian Telegram channels shows Israeli forces attacking a group of women in the Old City.

The video, verified by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking unit Sanad, shows several Israeli soldiers shoving the women and striking them with their weapons. One woman can be seen crying out in pain.

Families of Israeli captives continue to protest for prisoner swap deal

A government official in the coastal enclave has spoken to Al Jazeera about the situation in the northern part of Gaza.

Here are his translated comments:

• The famine in the northern Gaza Strip has reached a catastrophic point, and most food commodities have run out.
• Hundreds of children and sick people are at risk of death as a result of the catastrophic famine.
• The relevant international institutions are not doing their duty to force the occupation to respect international laws.

Witnesses say the Israeli military has been ramping up the military attacks generally across Rafah.

We saw families today fleeing from Israeli bombardment in al-Mawasi, going to Khan Younis and to central parts of the Gaza Strip. We spoke to them, and they confirmed the situation there is extremely critical and dangerous. Palestinians are no longer able to reside in that area because of the unrelenting attacks carried out by the Israeli army.

Fighting is ongoing in other parts of Rafah between Hamas and Israeli soldiers, close to the western part of the city and the Philadelphi Corridor (border zone with Egypt).

Our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues report that an Israeli raid has targeted the Burj al-Louh area, west of the Nuseirat camp.

Last week, an Israeli operation in Nuseirat left at least 274 people killed, and hundreds more injured. Exact casualty numbers resulting from this attack are not available at this time, but we will update you as information comes in.

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report several people have been killed and more injured following an Israeli attack on a house in Nuseirat. Earlier, our colleagues said an Israeli raid had targeted the Burj al-Louh area, west of the Nuseirat camp. It is not immediately clear if the two incidents are related.

Hanan Al-Zaanin, an eight-year-old Palestinian girl, has died from severe malnutrition due to the dire humanitarian crisis in Gaza, where an Israeli blockade is preventing essential aid supplies from entering the war-torn territory.

Hamas official Taher al-Nunu has accused US Secretary of State Antony Blinken of bias for blaming the Palestinian group for the failure to reach an agreement, saying the top US diplomat has been acting like he is Israel’s foreign minister since the start of the war.

“He lacks neutrality. He lacks even-handedness. He operates with double standards. He is trying to portray the [Palestinian] resistance as if it is the party obstructing the deal,” al-Nunu told Al Jazeera.

He said Hamas accepted the proposal presented by Qatar and Egypt on May 6 as it was, and it was Israel that added amendments to it. Hamas’s response on Tuesday represented counter-revisions to some of the Israeli changes, al-Nunu said.

He stressed that Hamas agrees to the principles of the United Nations Security Council resolution that backed the deal, outlining four elements that the Palestinian group is seeking: permanent ceasefire, withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza, reconstruction of the territory and “serious” prisoner exchange.

According to al-Nunu, Hamas’s response aimed to deliver a single agreement with interconnected stages – to ensure that Israel would not renege on the deal and resume the war after the first phase, which would see the release of some of its captives in Gaza.

Asked whether Hamas would be flexible about demands that Blinken labelled “not workable”, al-Nunu said it is “normal” for parties engaged in negotiations to accept or reject amendments to a proposal.

“The ball is in Israel’s court, which is what the US administration is trying to return to us. Netanyahu is the one responsible so far for obstruction by not agreeing to what we sent to the mediators,” he added.

Hamas says it has not heard any Israeli response regarding ceasefire proposal

A Houthi “unmanned surface vessel” drone attack caused “severe flooding and damage to the engine room” of the Tutor, a Liberian-flagged Greek-owned ship, in the Red Sea, US Central Command (CENTCOM) has said.

“This continued malign and reckless behaviour by the Iranian-backed Houthis threatens regional stability and endangers the lives of mariners across the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden,” CENTCOM said in a post on X.

Earlier, Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree said the Tutor had been hit and was in danger of sinking.

CENTCOM also added that US forces destroyed three antiship cruise missile launchers in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen on Wednesday.

The Houthis say their attacks on ships in the Red Sea are in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, and in response to US and UK air strikes on Yemen.

Gee, if only there was a way to end all these conflicts at the same time... Stop the genocide.



Israel attacks UNWRA, kills more than 190 UN staff, detains and tortures more than 20 UNWRA staff, US silence or rather "we see no evidence of war crimes" and has banned funding of UNRWA by law until 2025.

Now the Houthis arrest UN, NGO staff suspecting a spy network

US condemns Houthi detention of UN, NGO staff in Yemen amid ‘spy network’ allegations

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic have verified and shared video footage showing a convoy of Israeli military vehicles raiding the occupied West Bank city of Nablus.

The raid follows after arrests overnight and into the early morning of Palestinians, including a recently reported arrest in the town of Kafr ad-Dik, located to the west of Salfit city. Local sources told the Wafa news agency that Israeli soldiers detained a 22-year-old man in front of a mosque in the town.

A young Palestinian man was also shot overnight during clashes when Israeli forces stormed the Jabriyat neighbourhood in Jenin city.

Photos posted online by Quds News Network show the damage to infrastructure in the city of Jenin and its refugee camp due to the ongoing Israeli military raid.

Earlier, we reported that Israeli forces shot a Palestinian man after storming Jenin. They assaulted paramedics as they attempted to reach the wounded man and his condition is unknown.

Palestinian news agency Wafa also reported that Israeli forces stormed the villages of al-Jalama, Faqqua, Jalbun and Arabbuna, northeast of Jenin, resulting in exchanges of gunfire between Palestinian resistance groups and Israeli soldiers.

Israeli forces have arrested at least 12 people, including a minor and several former prisoners, in raids across the occupied West Bank since last night, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society. Most of these arrests took place in Hebron governorate, while others were in the governorates of Nablus, Salfit, and Qalqilya governorates, said the group.

There have also been arrests in Jenin, where an Israeli raid is ongoing.

Since October 7, Israeli forces have made 9,185 arrests in the West Bank, according to the group.