The Israeli army said on Sunday that it had intercepted a missile coming from Yemen, the day after an Israeli raid against Yemeni Houthi rebels that left three dead and more than 80 wounded. It “was approaching Israel“, but did not enter Israeli territory,” she added.Mermaids […] were triggered due to the possibility of falling shrapnel. The incident is over“, the army said in a statement. Israeli warplanes bombed the Houthi-held port of Hodeida on Saturday, causing a massive fire. The rebel-run Saba news agency, citing their health ministry, gave a death toll of “three martyrs and 87 wounded“.
The airstrikes came a day after a Houthi drone attack killed one person in Tel Aviv after evading Israel’s defense system. Experts said the strikes were the first announced by Israel against Yemen, a poor country on the Arabian Peninsula embroiled in a war between the Houthis and the government, located about 1,800 kilometers from Israel. Backed by Israel’s arch-enemy Iran, the Yemeni insurgents have for months targeted ships said to be linked to Israel off the coast of Yemen and fired missiles at Israeli cities, the vast majority of which have been intercepted.
30 dead in Gaza after Israeli raids
The Israeli army said Saturday that it had “eliminated terrorists” in strikes and fighting. According to the Civil Defense in Gaza, an organization dependent on Hamas, there were at least 24 deaths in Israeli raids. During the night, it updated this toll, with six dead in Bureij, six in Armida and one more in Nousseirat, bringing the weekend’s toll to more than thirty dead.
It is in this context that Benjamin Netanyahu must go to Washington and speak on Wednesday before Congress. He is expected to meet President Joe Biden if the latter has recovered from Covid-19. On Friday, the head of American diplomacy Antony Blinken reaffirmed the American determination to reach a ceasefire agreement. But this is not “not enough“, he is “essential to ensure that we have a plan“for the post-war in Gaza,”for governance, security, humanitarian aid, reconstruction“, he said. Washington reaffirmed its commitment to the two-state solution, Palestinian and Israeli, for a settlement of the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict, after the Israeli parliament adopted a resolution opposing the creation of a Palestinian state whose authority would extend over the West Bank and Gaza.
