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SvennoJ 3 hours ago

Multiple air attacks reported across Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen: Ambrey

UK security firm Ambrey says it has received reports of ongoing air attacks across Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen including the port of Ras Isa, Yemen’s main oil export terminal.

Earlier, the Houthi-affiliated Al Masirah broadcaster said the US-British coalition launched 12 air attacks, targeting the Harf Sufyan district of Yemen’s northern Amran province, while six air strikes hit the Hodeidah port on the western coast of Yemen.

The broadcaster did not provide further details regarding casualties or damage from the attacks. There was no immediate comment from US and UK officials on the reported air attacks.

The Houthi group has controlled Amran since 2014. The province lies about 50km (31 miles) north of Yemen’s capital Sanaa.


Israeli army confirms striking power station, two ports in Yemen

The Israeli army has issued a statement saying it struck targets in the Houthi-controlled parts of Yemen, including the Hezyaz power station near the capital Sanaa, and the Hodeidah and Ras Isa ports on the western coast.

The army claimed that the power plant served “as a central source of energy for the Houthi terrorist regime in its military activities”.

“The State of Israel has the right and obligation to defend itself,” the statement added.

Yemen’s Houthis have launched multiple drone and missile attacks towards Israel in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.

Yemen’s rebel group has also launched attacks on shipping vessels it deemed to be affiliated with Israel as they passed through the Red Sea.


Israel pledges to continue attacking Houthi targets in Yemen

The Israeli army says it will continue attacking different targets in Yemen because of the upped attacks on Israel by the Houthi rebels.

We’ve heard from a number of Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who said that until the Houthis stop these attacks, Israel is going to continue striking different parts of Yemen.

Defense Minister Israel Katz said these strikes were just a warning and that Israel is going to “show what it can do”.

Israel also noted that while it is coordinating attacks with the US, this was not a joint operation between the US and Israel.


Houthis to pay ‘heavy price’ for attacks on Israel: Netanyahu

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said after Israeli warplanes attacked ports and other targets controlled by the rebel group in Yemen that “the Houthis are paying, and will continue to pay, a heavy price for their aggression against [Israel]”.

“The Houthis are an extension of Iran and they serve the terrorist goals of the Iranian axis in the Middle East,” he added. “They pose a danger to Israel and the entire region, including harming global freedom of navigation.”

“We will act with determination and force against any entity that threatens Israel – wherever and whenever necessary,” Netanyahu concluded.



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SvennoJ 3 hours ago

Shin Bet chief wants ‘reality-changing move’ in occupied West Bank

The head of Israel’s internal security agency Shin Bet has urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to greenlight a major military offensive in the occupied West Bank.

Israeli media outlets report that Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar called for the army operation at a meeting with Netanyahu, ministers and security officials after a shooting incident on Monday. Three Israelis were killed and eight others wounded near the illegal West Bank settlement of Kedumim.

“Israel should learn from October 7 and not allow the intensification of these terrorist elements,” Bar was quoted as saying in a Channel 12 news report.

“Therefore, a broad, reality-changing move must be initiated that will collapse and eliminate the phenomenon of the armed Palestinian battalions … in order to ensure our freedom of operation there.”


Israel’s defence minister asks army for plan to completely ‘defeat’ Hamas: Report

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz says he has told the army to present a plan “for the complete defeat of Hamas in Gaza”, in case a captives deal is not agreed upon by the time US President-elect Donald Trump comes into power, The Times of Israel newspaper reports.

“We must not be drawn into a war of attrition that will cost us heavily and not lead to victory and the complete strategic defeat of Hamas and the end of the war in Gaza,” Katz said in a statement issued by his office.

In the statement, Katz “emphasised that the issue of releasing the hostages has been the top priority of the defence establishment since he took office and that everything must be done to bring them home”.

He added that a political solution to the war was “not relevant” to the plan because “no Arab or other party will take responsibility for managing civilian life in Gaza as long as Hamas is not completely crushed.”



SvennoJ 3 hours ago

‘Hard to question’ Gaza deaths after The Lancet report

Israel’s longstanding claim that the death toll tallied by Gaza’s Hamas-led Health Ministry is inflated will be hard to uphold after a study published by The Lancet concluded the number of casualties was underreported, according to Tamer Qarmout, associate professor in public policy at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies.

“The fact that this is a report by The Lancet and that its methodology is so rigorous sends a message,” Qarmout has told Al Jazeera. “It’s really hard to question this study.”

The peer-reviewed statistical analysis published by one of the world’s most renowned academic journals conducted by Yale University and other institutions estimated the death toll at 64,260, while the official figure stood at 37,877.

It concluded that the toll was likely undercounted by 41 percent in the first nine months of the conflict.

Qarmout said that once the war stops and forensic experts gain access to Gaza, “the reality will be grim and we will learn about a lot more losses”.


‘Indifference and apathy’: Israelis don’t care about Gaza death toll

Earlier we reported on a new study that says the number of deaths in Gaza during Israel’s war is likely substantially higher than official statistics.

Menachem Klein, a professor at Bar-Ilan University, says the Israeli public will unlikely be moved by the research.

“The brain of the Israeli public is washed by the government and the mainstream media. Unfortunately, the genocide operation and the criminal acts in Gaza are made by ordinary people, and it’s very difficult for ordinary people to accept that they, their relatives, and their neighbours are criminals,” Klein told Al Jazeera.

“The self-perception is ‘we fight terrorism so we’re doing a good job, we’re not the bad guys, they are the bad guys’. All this combined builds up Israeli apathy and indifference to the death toll in Gaza.”



SvennoJ 3 hours ago

Israeli military flattening neighbourhoods in north Gaza with bulldozers

The scale of Israel’s attacks continues to escalate across different geographical locations in Gaza. But the concentration pretty much during the past 24 hours has been on Gaza City.

The Israeli military is still broadening its attacks on residential areas. One of the latest has struck a school sheltering dozens of Palestinians in Jabalia town.

Reports coming from witnesses suggest that the skyline of northern Gaza is overwhelmed and covered with thick black smoke coming from buildings in the Jabalia refugee camp and Beit Lahiya that were burned by Israeli ground forces.

Medical teams in al-Awda Hospital continue to report that the Israeli army is going on with bulldozing all residential homes in the vicinity of the hospital amid more deterioration taking place among medical cases left there, and it could be a sign of further Israeli escalation taking place within the coming days.

The military operation has no sign of stopping or abating in northern Gaza, where different border towns and villages have been decimated completely as part of that Israeli military operation that has been justified as a sort of dismantling of the military capabilities of Palestinian armed groups in the north of the Strip.

Israeli military attacks on the Gaza Strip overnight

  • The Palestinian Media Centre reports injuries after shelling by the Israeli military in the area around al-Shafi’i Mosque, west of Khan Younis, southern Gaza.
  • Israeli military vehicles fired on the eastern areas of the Zeitoun neighbourhood, southeast of northern Gaza City.
  • Civil defence crews in Khan Younis report three people were wounded in an Israeli drone strike on civilians west of the city.
  • One person was killed and a number injured after an Israeli aircraft bombed civilians in the Hamad area of Khan Younis.
  • Israeli soldiers filmed themselves cheering the demolition of a house in Beit Hanoon.
https://x.com/PalinfoAr/status/1877589107506921817
Translation: In a scene that reflects the brutality of the aggression, occupation soldiers celebrate the bombing of citizens’ homes in the town of Beit Hanoon, northern Gaza.

Gaza doctor documents surgery by phone light

Dr Manar Fayyad videoed surgeons in a Gaza hospital performing surgery by phone light because of a lack of fuel for generators.

Al Jazeera’s Sanad agency verified the footage that Fayyad recorded showing doctors gathered around a patient with one holding a mobile phone to illuminate the surgical procedure.

“We are working under phone light due to the power outage at the hospital because the occupation prevents the fuel from reaching the hospital,” he said.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DEmXXpKOE2O


Doctors arrive in Gaza to support beleaguered health system

Fourteen doctors from various countries entered the Gaza Strip, according to Turkey’s Anadolu news agency. The physicians aim to provide medical assistance to wounded and ill Palestinians.

“Twelve surgeons and two doctors have come to Gaza to support the Palestinian people in the Strip,” Shadi Zaza, president of the Rahma Worldwide organisation, which contributed to the initiative, said at a news conference.

Healthcare workers in Gaza are the true heroes. No guarantee you'll survive, guaranteed to be scarred for life.



SvennoJ 3 hours ago

Rescue teams unable to reach areas under Israeli attack

Civil defence first responders are unable to reach sites of Israeli attacks as they continue to be targeted while trying to rescue the wounded.

Thousands of Palestinians are still trapped under the rubble. At least 11,000 Palestinians are missing, and we’re talking about more than 1,600 families that have been completely wiped out.

We do not know if the missing are trapped under the rubble, if they were killed, no one was able to reach them, or if they were arrested or kidnapped by Israeli forces.

After talking to rescue teams, they say they’re unable to go into bombed homes because they are short of staff, there’s a very limited number of emergency vehicles, and they’re prevented by relentless Israeli army strikes.


Gaza’s al-Awda Hospital ‘critically low on fuel’: WHO

The World Health Organization has said that al-Awda Hospital, the last functioning hospital in north Gaza, is overwhelmed with patients and critically low on fuel and essential medical supplies.

The UN health agency also said it has been working to access the hospital to resupply it and assess the situation at the non-functional Kamal Adwan Hospital. However, damaged roads and insufficient facilitation have made safe access impossible, it said.

“We urgently call for immediate action to make roads passable and to facilitate access to sustain Al-Awda Hospital and keep it operational,” the agency said.


Gaza’s Indonesian Hospital under heavy gunfire amid Israeli siege

Rawaya Tanboura, a nurse at the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza’s Beit Lahiya town, has told Al Jazeera that the medical compound has been the “direct target” of heavy gunfire from the Israeli army and its quadcopters, amid a severe shortage of basic supplies.

“The whole situation is very scary. We don’t even have a drop of water since Wednesday and we use saline solutions to give the patients something to drink,” Tanboura said.

“Sometimes we use the saline solutions for some other personal purposes due to the total lack of water in the hospital. This is a real catastrophe inside the hospital,” she added.



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SvennoJ 3 hours ago

Israeli settlers burn Palestinian crops in occupied West Bank: Report

Israeli settlers have burned crops and scrawled racist graffiti on the walls of a Palestinian village north of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.

Palestinian news agency Wafa, citing local sources, reports that a group of settlers attacked a farm on the outskirts of Khirbet Abu Falah where they burned a shed and left racist graffiti on the walls in Hebrew.

Footage published online by the Quds News Network was said to show the arson attack. No injuries were reported in the raid and Palestinian civil defence crews are working to extinguish the blaze.

Wafa said the town of Khirbet Abu Falah, the town of Turmus Aya, and the village of al-Mughayyir, all northeast of Ramallah, have been subject to repeated raids by Israeli settlers.


Israeli military carries out raids across occupied West Bank

The Palestinian news agency Wafa and local news organisations report Israeli military raids in the following areas overnight:

  • Israeli forces raided al-Khader town south of Bethlehem, firing sound bombs and tear gas towards Palestinian homes and shops. No injuries were reported.
  • Israeli soldiers seized two vehicles during a raid on the town of Nilin, west of Ramallah, with no reported arrests or injuries.
  • Raids were also reported in the villages of Hajjah and Baqat al-Hatab, east of Qalqilya, where locals also reported that tear gas and sound grenades were used by Israeli forces. There were no arrests or injuries.
  • Local news outlets reported that Israeli forces stormed the Jalazone refugee camp north of Ramallah and several young Palestinians were arrested in the town of Asira ash-Shamaliya in Nablus.

Palestinian town’s website provides rare, up-close look at Israeli settler violence

With Israeli settler attacks on Palestinian communities increasing across the occupied West Bank, one town has launched a website that documents a serious attack that saw houses and cars burned and people assaulted in 2023.

The Palestinian human rights group Al-Haq has highlighted the website following the most recent settler attack on the town of Turmus Aya, located north of Ramallah, on January 6.

With more than 20 videos and many more photographs documenting the violence inflicted on the town in 2023, Turmus Aya’s website offers a rare look inside the lives of Palestinians under occupation and settler attacks.



https://www.turmusayya621.com/videos.html

Israeli settlers attack Palestinian properties in occupied West Bank: Reports

Local Palestinian media outlets have reported on a number of Israeli settler attacks on Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank, including in the town of Abu Falah, northeast of Ramallah, and the village of Susiya, east of Hebron.



SvennoJ 3 hours ago

Video shows Israeli forces use commercial vehicle to snatch man in occupied West Bank

CCTV footage has captured the moment an Israeli special forces unit snatched a Palestinian man in the Dheisheh refugee camp in Bethlehem.

The footage published by the Palestinian Media Center shows soldiers jumping out of what looks like a delivery van and dragging Salah Faraj out of a car.

Such tactics have become increasingly common in the occupied West Bank.

In what a UN expert described as a flagrant violation of international law, Israeli special forces last week used an ambulance during a raid in Nablus, where they killed an elderly Palestinian woman and a man.

Last year, Israeli special forces infamously disguised themselves as medical staff and civilians during a raid on a hospital in Jenin, where they shot and killed three Palestinians, one of whom was a patient.


Israeli settlers attack village in the occupied West Bank

Israeli settlers targeted Palestinian homes in the village of Susiya, east of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank overnight. Footage published online by the Quds News Network shows the start of the attack as a group of men, some smoking cigarettes, moved towards the houses.

The violence in Susiya comes after Israeli settlers burned a farmhouse and scrawled graffiti on its walls in a Palestinian village north of Ramallah.


Israeli forces attack home in occupied West Bank

Israeli forces surrounded a house in Qabatiya, south of Jenin, and bombarded it with artillery. Local sources told Palestine’s Wafa news agency that Israeli special forces infiltrated the town and besieged a home on the eastern outskirts as Israeli aircraft flew overhead.

Additional military reinforcements, including a bulldozer, later arrived at the scene. Israeli troops also fired antitank grenades at the house and closed all entrances to the town.


Israeli army carries out numerous raids across occupied West Bank

Palestine’s news agency Wafa reports a spate of Israeli military incursions took place in the following areas overnight:

  • Multiple raids have been reported across Nablus with several young Palestinians arrested.
  • Footage posted to Telegram and verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad agency shows the moment when Israeli forces lined up and detained dozens of young men during an assault on the town of Deir Istiya, northwest of Salfit.
  • Israeli forces raided al-Khader town south of Bethlehem, firing sound bombs and tear gas towards Palestinian homes and shops.
  • Israeli soldiers seized two vehicles during an incursion in the town of Nilin, west of Ramallah, with no reported arrests or injuries.
  • Raids were also reported in the villages of Hajjah and Baqat al-Hatab, east of Qalqilya, where residents reported tear gas and sound grenades were used by Israeli forces.
  • Local news outlets report Israeli forces stormed the Jalazone refugee camp, north of Ramallah.