On Sunday, the Israeli military said it had intercepted a missile launched from Yemen, the latest in a series of similar attacks by the Iran-backed Houthi movement.
The Houthis said they fired a “hypersonic ballistic missile” toward a power plant near the Israeli city of Haifa. The group says it began striking shipping in the Red Sea and shelling Israel in response to Israeli military action in Gaza.
The current war began when Hamas attacked southern Israel on October 7, 2023, killing about 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages.
Israel’s military campaign against Hamas has killed more than 45,800 people, according to the Hamas-ruled territory’s health ministry.
Gaza’s health ministry said on Saturday that all three public hospitals in northern Gaza had been completely destroyed and “destroyed” by the Israeli military.
The Israeli military has imposed a blockade on northern Gaza since October, with the UN saying the area is under “almost total siege” as Israeli forces severely restrict access to aid supplies to the area, where an estimated 10,000 to 15,000 people remain. . .
Late last month, the Israeli military forced patients and medical staff out of the Kamal Advan Hospital in Beit Lahia, claiming the facility was a “Hamas terrorist stronghold” and the director of the hospital, Husam Abu Safiya, was arrested.
It said it facilitated the transfer of some health workers and patients to an Indonesian hospital nearby. But Gaza’s health ministry said on Saturday that this hospital had also been put out of business, along with the hospital in Beit Hanoun.
The head of the World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, again called for an end to attacks on hospitals and medical workers. “People in Gaza need access to medical care,” he said.
Israel says its forces operate in accordance with international law and do not target civilians.
On Saturday, the Biden administration said it did plans $8bn (£6.4bn) arms sale to Israel.. The weapons batch, which requires approval by US House and Senate committees, includes rockets, projectiles and other munitions.
The move comes just over two weeks before Biden leaves office and Donald Trump takes over as president.
Washington has consistently rejected calls to suspend military aid to Israel over the number of civilians killed in Gaza.
