Gaza has become ‘a killing field’ due to Israel blocking aid, says UN secretary general – Middle East crisis live
António Guterres says ‘more than a month has passed without aid into Gaza’ as Israeli officials say there is ‘no shortage’ of aidSuspected US airstrikes pounded the area around Yemen’s Red Sea port city of Hodeida on Tuesday night, killing at least six people, the Iran-backed Houthi rebels said, according to the Associated Press (AP). The strikes hit around Hodeida’s al-Hawak district, the rebels said, and injured 16 people. The area is home to the city’s airport, which the rebels have used in the past to target shipping in the Red Sea, reports the AP. Since its start, the intense campaign of US airstrikes targeting the rebels over their attacks on shipping in Middle East waters – related to the Israel-Hamas war – has killed at least 79 people, according to casualty figures released by the Houthis. The AP reports that footage aired by the rebels’ al-Masirah satellite news channel showed chaotic scenes of people carrying the injured to waiting ambulances and rescuers searching by the light of their mobile phones. The target appeared in the footage to be a home in a residential neighbourhood, likely part of a wider campaign launched by the Trump administration to kill rebel leaders. Other strikes targeted Yemen’s mountainous Amran governorate, north of the rebel-held capital of Sana’a. There, the Houthis described US strikes hitting telecommunication equipment. Previous US strikes also targeted telecommunications gear in Amran near Jebel Aswad. Strikes later apparently targeted Jebel Nuqum near Sana’a. Others hit Dhamar and Ibb governorates, injuring three people, reports the AP. The US military’s Central Command (Centcom), which oversees US military operations, did not immediately acknowledge the strikes, according to the news agency. That follows a pattern for the command, which now has authorisation from the White House to conduct strikes at will in the campaign that began on 15 March. The US military also has not been providing any information on targets hit in the campaign. The White House has said more than 200 strikes have been conducted so far.As calls for Lebanon’s Hezbollah to disarm gain momentum, a senior Hezbollah official told Reuters the group is ready to hold talks with the Lebanese president about its weapons if Israel withdraws from south Lebanon and stops its strikes. Continue reading...
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António Guterres says ‘more than a month has passed without aid into Gaza’ as Israeli officials say there is ‘no shortage’ of aid
Suspected US airstrikes pounded the area around Yemen’s Red Sea port city of Hodeida on Tuesday night, killing at least six people, the Iran-backed Houthi rebels said, according to the Associated Press (AP).
The strikes hit around Hodeida’s al-Hawak district, the rebels said, and injured 16 people. The area is home to the city’s airport, which the rebels have used in the past to target shipping in the Red Sea, reports the AP.
Since its start, the intense campaign of US airstrikes targeting the rebels over their attacks on shipping in Middle East waters – related to the Israel-Hamas war – has killed at least 79 people, according to casualty figures released by the Houthis.
The AP reports that footage aired by the rebels’ al-Masirah satellite news channel showed chaotic scenes of people carrying the injured to waiting ambulances and rescuers searching by the light of their mobile phones. The target appeared in the footage to be a home in a residential neighbourhood, likely part of a wider campaign launched by the Trump administration to kill rebel leaders.
Other strikes targeted Yemen’s mountainous Amran governorate, north of the rebel-held capital of Sana’a. There, the Houthis described US strikes hitting telecommunication equipment. Previous US strikes also targeted telecommunications gear in Amran near Jebel Aswad.
Strikes later apparently targeted Jebel Nuqum near Sana’a. Others hit Dhamar and Ibb governorates, injuring three people, reports the AP.
The US military’s Central Command (Centcom), which oversees US military operations, did not immediately acknowledge the strikes, according to the news agency. That follows a pattern for the command, which now has authorisation from the White House to conduct strikes at will in the campaign that began on 15 March.
The US military also has not been providing any information on targets hit in the campaign. The White House has said more than 200 strikes have been conducted so far.
As calls for Lebanon’s Hezbollah to disarm gain momentum, a senior Hezbollah official told Reuters the group is ready to hold talks with the Lebanese president about its weapons if Israel withdraws from south Lebanon and stops its strikes.
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