Al Jazeera’s correspondent in Gaza reports that at least 37 Palestinians, including women and children, have been killed in predawn attacks by Israel in the north and south of the territory.

    The latest killings will add to the Gaza Health Ministry’s death toll of some 436 Palestinians, including 183 children, killed since Israel shattered the ceasefire on Tuesday.

    As Israeli ground troops join the attack on Gaza, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned of a “larger and stronger front” in the occupied West Bank in addition to “fierce war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip”.

    Gaza’s Health Ministry says at least 49,547 Palestinians have been confirmed dead and 112,719 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza. Gaza’s Government Media Office updated its death toll to more than 61,700, saying thousands of Palestinians missing under the rubble are presumed dead. At least 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attacks and more than 200 were taken captive.

    Israeli military, PA security forces carry out West Bank raids, arrests

    The Israeli military has carried out raids and arrests in locations across the occupied West Bank over recent hours, including:

•     The city of Hebron, where two former Palestinian prisoners have been re-arrested
•     The town of as-Samu, south of Hebron
•     The city of Yatta, south of Hebron

    Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces have arrested a man in Jenin’s Marah Saad neighbourhood, which houses displaced people from the Jenin refugee camp, according to our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues.

    PA security forces have also confiscated and detonated explosive devices used by Palestinian armed groups against Israeli forces in the city of Nablus.

    Houthis say they carried out missile attack targeting Ben Gurion airport

    Earlier, we reported that Israel’s air force destroyed a missile launched from Yemen before it entered the country’s territorial space.

    Houthi spokesman Yahya Saree has now confirmed that attack, saying, “The Yemeni armed forces carried out a qualitative military operation targeting Ben Gurion airport in the occupied Jaffa region with a Palestine-2 hypersonic ballistic missile.”

    Saree said the operation “successfully achieved its objective”, without elaborating.

    No casualties have been reported so far. We will bring you more information when we have it.