fredag 27 december 2024

Middle East Crisis

Israel-Huthi
UN chief condemns attacks between Israel and Yemen

UN Secretary-General António Guterres condemns attacks by both Israel and the Houthi movement in Yemen, several media outlets report. On Thursday, the Israeli military carried out new airstrikes against several targets in the country, including the airport in the capital Sanaa.

“Today’s Israeli airstrikes on Sanaa International Airport, Red Sea ports and power plants in Yemen are particularly alarming,” a spokesman for Guterres said after the attacks.

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was at the airport when it was attacked.
 
Gaza War
Palestinian journalists killed in airstrike in Gaza

Five Palestinian journalists were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a van in the Gaza Strip early Thursday morning, their employer Al-Quds Today reported. The TV channel is linked to the terrorist group Islamic Jihad, writes AFP.

According to Palestinian media and eyewitnesses, the car was marked with the word "PRESS" in red letters when it was parked outside the Al-Awda hospital in Nuseirat, reports the New York Times. A rocket is said to have hit the van and killed everyone inside.

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) instead describe it as having carried out a "precision strike on a vehicle containing a terrorist cell from Islamic Jihad". The IDF says that before the attack it had implemented a number of measures to reduce the risk to civilians.

WHO: Northern Gaza's last major hospital knocked out

The Kamal Adwan hospital, the last major functioning hospital in northern Gaza, has been forced to close its operations after an Israeli raid on Friday morning. The World Health Organization (WHO) writes on X.

“According to initial reports, several important departments were badly burned and destroyed in the raid,” writes WHO on X.

25 patients in critical condition and 60 healthcare workers are said to remain at the hospital, according to WHO.

According to Israel, the hospital was used as a base by Hamas.
 

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