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The destroyer USS Mason responded to the Norwegian ship's distress call
Yemen's Houthis claim attack on Norwegian tanker
DUBAI — Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi militia on Tuesday claimed responsibility for an attack on a Norwegian tanker in its latest operation to protest against Israel's bombardment of Gaza.The group targeted the commercial tanker STRINDA with a rocket after the crew refused to respond to all warnings, Houthi military spokesperson Yehia Sareea said in a televised statement.He vowed that the Houthis would continue blocking ships heading to Israeli ports until Israel allows the entry of food and medical aid into the Gaza Strip — more than 1,000 miles from the Houthi seat of power in Sanaa.The attack on the tanker STRINDA took place about 60 nautical miles (111km) north of the Bab al-Mandab Strait connecting the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden at about 2100 GMT, a US official told...
December 12, 2023

Yemen's Houthis claim attack on Norwegian tanker

Israel has continued its bombardment of Gaza, with the main focus on Khan Younis in the south.
Israeli forces launch deadly raids in West Bank, pound Gaza ahead of UN vote
RAFAH — Israeli forces have carried out deadly raids in the occupied West Bank while shelling and bombing many areas in the Gaza Strip ahead of a United Nations General Assembly meeting to discuss an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire”.At least four Palestinians were killed on Tuesday in the most intense raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, where the Israeli army fired a missile at youths, the Palestinian Ministry of Health reported.The Palestine Red Crescent Society said Israel’s military was blocking ambulances from the Jenin refugee camp, which was targeted in the raid, to treat the wounded.Israeli forces also launched raids in other West Bank towns, arresting some 50 people in Ramallah, Bethlehem, Nablus, and Tubas, the Palestinian Wafa news agency reported.Meanwhile,...
December 12, 2023

Israeli forces launch deadly raids in West Bank, pound Gaza ahead of UN vote

People displaced by fighting shelter at a health clinic in Gaza. — courtesy WHO
Gaza humanitarian crisis deepens as fighting rages on across the Strip
GAZA — UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths reiterated deep concerns for the people of Gaza on Monday, amid reports of intense fighting between Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups in Gaza City and Jabalia in the north of the Strip, and in Khan Younis in the south, while Israeli bombardment of the enclave has continued.Speaking in Doha at the launch of the Global Humanitarian Overview, Griffiths said that the situation was “getting worse”, while efforts to secure “moments of peace” remained of the “greatest importance”.According to the latest update on the emergency from UN relief coordination office (OCHA), tens of thousands of people “in desperate need of food, water, shelter, health and protection” who recently fled to Rafah in the south, had waited...
December 11, 2023

Gaza humanitarian crisis deepens as fighting rages on across the Strip

An Israeli mobile artillery unit fires a shell from southern Israel towards the Gaza Strip, in a position near the Israel-Gaza border on Sunday, Dec. 10, 2023
Israel trying to clear Palestinians from Gaza, says UN agency chief
LOS ANGELES — Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner-general of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, said Israel appears to be trying to clear Gaza of its Palestinian population through its military offensive and evacuation orders.“The developments we are witnessing point to attempts to move Palestinians into Egypt, regardless of whether they stay there or are resettled elsewhere,” he wrote in the Los Angeles Times.On Sunday, Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi also accused Israel of being “determined” to push Palestinians out of Gaza.“We are seeing a systematic effort, it seems to empty Gaza from its people,” he said at a conference in Doha, Qatar.Eylon Levy, an Israeli government spokesperson, called the allegations “outrageous and false.”Israel has said it is...
December 11, 2023

Israel trying to clear Palestinians from Gaza, says UN agency chief

Lynn Hastings attends a news conference in Gaza on January 31.
UN humanitarian official says 'we have learned nothing in the past 75 years'
GENEVA — A top United Nations humanitarian official on Sunday offered a grim assessment of Israel's war against Hamas as the world marked International Human Rights Day.In a statement, the UN's Humanitarian Coordinator in the Occupied Palestinian Territory Lynn Hastings condemned Hamas' October 7 attack on Israel but said Israel's ongoing response in Gaza was disproportionate.“Today could have been a celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, born from the atrocities of two world wars," Hastings said. "Instead, human rights are assaulted in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory. The violations perpetrated on both populations will bring neither peace nor security to either of these nations.”Non-state armed actors...
December 11, 2023

UN humanitarian official says 'we have learned nothing in the past 75 years'

Egyptian voters line up to cast their votes for the presidential elections at a polling station, in Cairo, Egypt on Sunday
Egyptians vote for president, with el-Sissi almost certain to win
CAIRO — Egyptians have begun voting in a presidential election in which President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi faces no serious challenger and is almost certain to win another term, keeping him in power until 2030.The election has been overshadowed by the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. Almost all Egyptians' attention has been on the war on their country’s eastern borders and the suffering of Palestinian civilians in the coastal enclave.The three-day vote, beginning on Sunday, is also taking place amid a staggering economic crisis in Egypt.It’s a country where, among a population of some 105 million people, nearly a third live in poverty, according to official figures.The crisis stems from mismanagement of the economy — but also from the repercussions of the coronavirus pandemic and the...
December 11, 2023

Egyptians vote for president, with el-Sissi almost certain to win

UN Secretary-General António Guterres delivers remarks to the opening ceremony of the Doha Forum 2023, in Qatar, under the theme ‘Building Shared Futures’. — courtesy UN/Florencia Soto Nino-Martinez
‘I will not give up’ on push for Gaza humanitarian ceasefire: Guterres
DOHA — The UN Secretary-General on Sunday pledged that he would “not give up” on appealing for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, adding that inaction on the Security Council was undermining its credibility.“The preeminent forum for the peaceful resolution of international disputes is paralyzed by geostrategic divisions,” António Guterres told the Doha Forum taking place in Qatar.This was following Friday’s meeting in New York during which the United States vetoed a resolution demanding that Israel and Palestinian militants end the intense fighting across the enclave which erupted on Oct. 7 with the Hamas terror attacks.“I urged the Security Council to press to avert a humanitarian catastrophe and I reiterated my appeal for a humanitarian ceasefire to be declared”, said the...
December 10, 2023

‘I will not give up’ on push for Gaza humanitarian ceasefire: Guterres

Screenshot shows moment Houthi rebels storm cargo ship in the Red Sea
Israel ready to act against Houthi rebels if international community fails to, NSA says
TEL AVIV — Israel is prepared to act against efforts by Houthi rebels in Yemen to disrupt shipping in the Red Sea if the international community fails to do so, Israeli National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi said Saturday.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had spoken with US President Joe Biden as well as European leaders about Houthis targeting merchant ships with alleged Israeli links, Hanegbi told Israel’s Channel 12.“Israel is giving the world some time to organize in order to prevent this but if there isn’t to be a global arrangement, because it is a global issue, we will act in order to remove this naval siege,” Hanegbi said.The Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen are a Shiite political and military organization that have been fighting a civil war since 2014.There...
December 10, 2023

Israel ready to act against Houthi rebels if international community fails to, NSA says

Although the UN is distributing some supplies, civilians say there is a lack of basic necessities in Al-Mawasi
Al-Mawasi: Gaza humanitarian zone not humane, evacuees say
GAZA — As Israel presses its military offensive across Gaza, the army has been repeatedly advising some two million civilians to move to a "humanitarian zone" smaller than London's Heathrow Airport.Al-Mawasi is a narrow strip of land by the Mediterranean Sea. It has few buildings and largely consists of sandy dunes and agricultural land.The zone designated as safe by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), is just 8.5 sq km (3.3 sq miles).Reem Abd Rabu has spent the last few weeks sleeping on the ground and sharing a tent with four other families in the area.She is one of the 1.8 million Palestinians who have been displaced since the war began on 7 October after Hamas's attack on Israel.She first travelled to Khan Younis after fleeing northern Gaza, but after nearby houses...
December 08, 2023

Al-Mawasi: Gaza humanitarian zone not humane, evacuees say

Gaza
Intense street fighting in southern Gaza
GAZA — Intense urban fighting raged in and around the Gaza Strip's largest cities on Friday, as the death toll continued to rise.Residents and the Israeli military both reported intensified fighting in both northern areas, where Israel had previously said its troops had largely completed their tasks last month, and in the south where they launched a new assault this week.The Israeli military said on Friday it had struck more than 450 targets in Gaza from land, sea and air over the past 24 hours — the most since a truce collapsed last week and about double the daily figures typically reported since then.Hamas reported the most intense clashes with Israeli forces were taking place in the north in Gaza City's Shejaia district, as well as in the south in Khan Younis, where Israelis...
December 08, 2023

Intense street fighting in southern Gaza

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