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Yemen’s Houthi rebels promised a “huge” retaliation against Israel on Sunday following a deadly strike on the port of Hodeidah, as violence sparked by the Gaza war gripped the region.
Israel bombed the Palestinian territory, Lebanon and Yemen in quick succession this week in response to attacks from Iran-backed militant groups.
Despite Washington asserting that a deal to end more than nine months of devastating war between Israel and Gaza rulers Hamas was near the “goal line”, the Israeli military said it intercepted a missile fired from Yemen as it pressed on with its offensive in the besieged Gaza Strip.
Dozens have been killed since Saturday across Gaza, the civil defence agency said, including in strikes on homes in the central Nuseirat and Bureij areas and displaced people near southern Khan Younis.
Residents said a major operation was underway in the Saudi district west of Rafah in the south, reporting heavy artillery and clashes.

The deadly strikes in Gaza came hours after Hezbollah and its ally Hamas said they fired at Israeli positions from south Lebanon, while Yemen’s Houthi rebels vowed to respond to Israeli warplanes hitting a key port.
On Sunday, Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree said the rebel’s “response to the Israeli aggression against our country is inevitably coming and will be huge”.
The fire left raging by the strikes on rebel-held Hodeidah port “is seen across the Middle East and the significance is clear”, Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said on Saturday.
The Houthis control swathes of Yemen, including much of its Red Sea coast, while the internationally recognised government has withdrawn to Aden on the south coast.
Detailing the first strikes claimed by Israel in Yemen, Gallant warned of further operations if the Houthis “dare to attack us” after a rebel drone strike killed one in Tel Aviv on Friday.
Houthi health authorities said on Sunday the death toll from the Hodeidah strike had climbed to six.
In a statement carried by Houthi media, the health ministry said “six people were martyred, three remain missing and 83 others were wounded” in the strikes on Saturday that hit a power plant and fuel storage facilities at the Hodeidah port.

Firefighters struggled to contain the massive blaze caused by the strike, with a port employee saying fuel storage tanks and a power plant were still on fire on Sunday.
Despite Houthi assurances of sufficient fuel stocks, Saturday’s strike triggered fears of worsening shortages.
The attack is “going to have dire humanitarian effects on the millions of ordinary Yemenis living in Huthi-held Yemen”, Nicholas Brumfield, a Yemen expert, said on social media platform X.
It would drive up prices of fuel and also any goods carried by truck, the analyst said.
Late on Saturday, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani “strongly condemned” the Hodeidah attack, saying it was “an expression of the aggressive behaviour of the child-killing Israeli regime”.
Kanani added that Israel and its supporters, including the United States, were “directly responsible for the dangerous and unpredictable consequences of the continued crimes in Gaza, as well as the attacks on Yemen”.
Following the strikes, the Israeli military said on Sunday it had intercepted a missile fired from Yemen towards the Red Sea resort town of Eilat. Saree said the rebels had fired ballistic missiles towards the port city.


The trio of militant groups has vowed to keep up attacks on Israel until a truce ends the violence in Gaza, which lies in ruins, with most residents forced to flee their homes.
The Gaza war was triggered by Hamas’ October 7 attack on southern Israel, which resulted in the deaths of 1,195 people, mostly civilians, according to a tally based on Israeli figures.
The militants also seized 251 hostages, 116 of whom are still in Gaza, including 42 the Israeli military says are dead.
Israel’s military retaliation to wipe out Hamas has killed at least 38,983 people, also mostly civilians, according to data from the health ministry in Hamas-ruled Gaza.
The war has also unleashed hunger and health crises in Gaza, with Israel and the United Nations trading blame for vital aid supplies failing to reach those in need.

After the detection of poliovirus in Gaza sewage, though no individual cases, the World Health Organization said there were “monumental” constraints to mounting a timely response.
WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier said on Friday the agency believed many more diseases were “spreading out of control” inside Gaza.
The months-long war has also brought Israelis to the streets, sometimes in their tens of thousands, focused on securing the release of the remaining hostages.
“Bring them home,” demonstrator Ofira Azrieli said on Saturday in Tel Aviv, appealing to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The prime minister is due to address US lawmakers Wednesday in Washington, where he will be under pressure to reach a ceasefire with Hamas.
His office announced that he would meet US President Joe Biden on Tuesday.


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A giant fire erupts at an oil storage facility following Israeli strikes in Yemen’s Houthi-held port city of Hodeidah on Saturday. Photo: AFP

Video footage posted on Friday shows an explosion lighting up the sky in the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv. Photo: UGC via AFP

Video footage shows fire and smoke rising following Israeli air strikes in the port city of Hodeidah in Yemen on Saturday. Photo: Houthis Media Centre via EPA-EFE

People check the devastation following an overnight Israeli strike in Bani Suheila in the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday. Photo: AFP

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A residential building explodes in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip amid the Israel-Gaza conflict on July 20. Photo: Reuters

A Palestinian baby boy lies in an incubator in Deir al-Balah after he was delivered prematurely, after his mother was killed in an Israeli air strike on Friday. Photo: AP

UN top court rules Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory illegal, calls for its end

A Palestinian boy stands on the rubble of buildings in Khan Yunis. The UN’s top court on Friday said Israel’s decades-long occupation of Palestinian territory was “illegal” and needed to end as soon as possible. Photo: AFP

Judge and President of the International Court of Justice, Nawaf Salam (second from right) delivers a non-binding ruling on the legal consequences of the Israeli occupation. Photo: AFP

A Palestinian man rides a donkey cart in Khan Yunis. The ICJ added that Israel was “under an obligation to cease immediately all new settlement activities and to evacuate all settlers” from occupied land. Photo: AFP

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Israeli security forces stand guard after a drone strike near the US embassy in Tel Aviv that killed a man. Photo: Bloomberg

Residents inspect the damage after the drone strike. Photo: Bloomberg

A residential block damaged by the drone strike. Photo: Bloomberg

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Houthi authorities say six people ‘were martyred’ in the attack on Hodeidah port, as Israeli military claims it intercepted a missile fired from Yemen


Houthi authorities say six people ‘were martyred’ in the attack on Hodeidah port, as Israeli military claims it intercepted a missile fired from Yemen.
