al jazeera

By Mersiha Gadzo
   Dozens of Palestinians have been killed as Israel’s bombardment continues across the Gaza Strip, including 12 people in three separate attacks on the Nuseirat refugee camp, according to civil defense crews.

    In Yemen, at least three people were killed and 87 wounded in Israeli air attacks that targeted an oil storage facility and power plant in the port city of Hodeidah, officials said. Israeli raids also caused injuries in southern Lebanon.

    The Israeli attacks come as countries called for an end to Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory following a “landmark” ruling from the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

    At least 38,919 people have been killed and 89,622 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza. The death toll in Israel from Hamas-led attacks on October 7 is estimated at 1,139 with dozens of people still held captive in Gaza.

    Girl killed in Israeli bombing of house in Nuseirat refugee camp

    Israeli forces have killed a Palestinian girl bombing a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, according to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.

    Earlier, our colleagues on the ground reported that Israeli forces shelled the Ein Jaalut towers in southern Nuseirat as well as the ad-Dawa area, near the power plant and Salah al-Din Street northeast of Nuseirat.

    We will update you about the killing of the child when we know more.

    Houthis claim strike on vessel in Red Sea, confirm attack on Israel’s Eilat

    Yemen’s Houthi rebels have issued a statement, saying they hit Liberia-flagged cargo vessel Pumba with missiles in the Red Sea.

    The armed group also confirmed an attack on the Israeli port city of Eilat.

    We reported earlier that Israel’s Arrow 3 missile defence system had shot down a rocket fired from Yemen, according to Israel’s official Army Radio, as warning sirens sounded in Eilat.

    The Houthi statement said the attack carried out “with a number of ballistic missiles” came in support of the Palestinian people and in response to the US, UK and Israeli attacks against Yemen.

    The US and the UK have been targeting the Houthi positions in Yemen since the group started attacking vessels in the Red Sea in opposition to Israel’s war on Gaza.

    Israel attacked Yemen’s port city of Hodeidah yesterday following a deadly drone attack on Tel Aviv by Houthis a day earlier.

    Israel’s Lieberman calls for destruction of Yemen’s Hodeidah port

    Israeli Army Radio has quoted Avigdor Lieberman, the head of the Yisrael Beiteinu party, saying the Houthis have caused “tremendous economic damage to Israel”.

    “We must not be satisfied with a one-time blow; we must completely destroy the port of Hodeidah,” he said.

    He added that the “intelligence failure today against Hezbollah, Syria, Lebanon and the Shia militias in Syria is greater than it was against Hamas on the evening of October 7”.

    Israeli troops must retain control of Gaza-Egypt border area: Minister

    Energy Minister Eli Cohen has objected to the potential withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Philadelphi Corridor, the border area between Gaza and Egypt.

    Israeli media quoted him as saying the Israeli control of the corridor “cut the important artery of arms smuggling from Egypt to Gaza”.

    The remarks came after a report by Israel’s Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper quoted unnamed sources as saying Netanyahu was due to meet the Israeli negotiating team today before travelling to Washington, DC.

    He will decide whether to agree to the broad outlines of the Philadelphi and Rafah axis and the return of Palestinians to northern Gaza, the report said.