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AGI – The Houthis attacked an MSC ship in the Red Sea to prevent it from reaching Israel. The news, reported by broadcaster Al Jazeera citing a Yemeni source, was also republished on Israeli websites.

A spokesman for the Yemeni group's armed forces said a merchant ship, the MSC United, “was attacked with naval missiles after ignoring three warning calls.” The same spokesman said drone strikes were also carried out against the southern Israeli city of Eilat and “other areas of occupied Palestine.”

The shipping company MSC has confirmed the attack on one of its ships. This is the container ship United VIII. “All The crew is safe and no injuries have been reported and a thorough assessment of the vessel is underway,” it said in a statement.

Tel Aviv, for its part, announced that an Israeli Air Force fighter jet had shot down an “enemy air target” over the Red Sea. The military said the target was a drone launched from Yemen. In a brief statement, the IDF said the target was heading toward Israel. Videos showing the interception have been released.

This was announced by the Hamas Ministry of Health there are 20,915 dead and 54,536 injured since the Israeli bombing raids began, mainly women and children. This comes 81 days after the start of the war between Israel and Hamas, which was triggered by a bloody and unprecedented attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement October 7th on Israeli soil from the Gaza Strip.

About 1,140 people, mostly civilians, were killed in that attack and about 250 were kidnapped and taken to Gaza, according to an AFP tally based on the latest Israeli figures. Between these hostagesAccording to the army, 129 are still in Gaza. About a hundred people were released as part of a release Armistice at the end of November in exchange for 240 Palestinian prisoners detained by Israel. After the Oct. 7 attack, Israel vowed to “destroy Hamas,” bombing and besieging Palestinian territory and conducting a ground operation there starting Oct. 27.

The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu identified three requirements to achieve peace with “Palestinian neighbors” in the Gaza Strip after emphasizing his intention to intensify the offensive against Hamas. “Hamas must be destroyed, Gaza must be demilitarized and Palestinian society must be de-radicalized. These are the three conditions for peace,” he told the Wall Street Journal.

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Women from Gaza

According to the Hamas Ministry of Health, thirty bodies of victims were transported to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younes in the last 24 hours. Now it is UN Security Council After long negotiations on the text, it adopted a resolution, described by NGOs working in the area as “watered down”, which does not mention the ceasefire but only allows the entry of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, where water, food and Medical supplies are being provided. Supplies are in short supply.

Despite the intensification of calls for peace This holiday, the Israeli army said it had attacked more than a hundred Hamas targets in the past 24 hours, including tunnel entrances and military sites used to attack soldiers, particularly in Jabaliya (north) and Khan Younes.

Also Pope Francis During the Angelus of St. Stephen, he offered a prayer: “To the intercession of the first martyr I also entrust the request for peace of the war-torn peoples. The media shows us what war produces. We have seen Syria, we see Gaza, we think of the tortured Ukraine, a desert of death. Is that what we want? People want peace, we pray for peace, we fight for peace.”

The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported “heartbreaking” testimonies collected by its teams at al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah (center), where victims of the Israeli bombing of al-Maghazi refugee camp are. According to the Hamas Ministry of Health, at least 70 people were killed on Sunday evening.

Several people were injured in the bombing of the headquarters Palestinian Red Crescent in the city of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. The humanitarian organization itself announced this on its official account on the social network X.

“Artillery shelling targeted the upper floors of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society headquarters Khan Yunis and numerous injuries have been reported among those displaced as there are thousands of people inside the building.”

“The number of patients being treated at the hospital far exceeds its capacity. Many will not survive the wait.” The army announced the deaths of two soldiers in Gaza, resulting in this 158 the number of soldiers killed since October 27, while on Tuesday two Palestinians, aged 17 and 31, were killed by Israeli army shelling during an incursion into a refugee camp in the southern Hebron region West Banka Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967.

United Nations, deeply concerned

Even the United Nations They said they were “deeply concerned” about Israel's ongoing bombardment of the central Gaza Strip and called on Israeli forces to take all possible measures to protect civilians. “We are deeply concerned about this constant bombing raids of the central Gaza Strip by Israeli forces (…) All attacks must strictly comply with the principles of Humanitarian law “It is particularly worrying that this latest heavy shelling comes after Israeli forces ordered southern Gaza residents to move toward the central Gaza Strip and Tal al-Sultan in Rafah.”

Meanwhile on X, the Israeli Prime Minister Depicted with the war helmet praising his troops: “Our reservists do their best and deserve everything.” The policy we have set is clear: all reservists receive – in the form of pay and compensation – everything they need for everything they pay for us do, deserve. The ministries will act accordingly to implement this directive.”

Communications disrupted in Gaza

The Palestinian telecommunications company Paltel announced a new suspension of services in the Gaza Strip, the fourth since the start of the war. “We regret to have to announce thistotal disruption of fixed telecommunications and internet services (…) in the Gaza Strip, due to the continuation of aggression,” the company said in a statement, adding that its technical teams “are working to restore service despite dangerous conditions on site.”

Israeli Defense Minister, attacked on seven fronts

The Defense Minister, Yoav Gallant He explained that Israel is in the middle of a war on seven different fronts, a long and hard war that will have a high price. “We are in a war in multiple theaters, we are being attacked from seven different sectors: Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Iraq, Yemen and Iran,” Gallant reportedly told the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Jerusalem Post.

“We have already responded and acted on six of these fronts, and here I will say it most clearly: anyone who acts against us is a potential target, there is no immunity for anyone. The State of Israel will know what to do, the security system is being prepared, the reality in which we are attacked and detained is correct in our judgment and the results in Gaza will be seen and understood by everyone. Those who see it are in particular Hamas, Iran and Hezbollah“.

“I want to tell you that this is a long, hard war. It has a price, a high price, but its justification is as high as it gets,” Gallant continued. “We were brutally and barbarically attacked to stop us from living here. We must make it clear that anyone who commits such an act will be punished. Whether it takes months or years, this matter must be concluded.”

Israel, war for many more months

The Chief of Staff of the Israeli Army Dear Halevi He explained that Israel's war against Hamas's Palestinians in the Gaza Strip “will continue for many more months.”
“The goals of this war are not easy to achieve. The war will last for many more months,” the chief of staff assured in a press conference after a meeting with soldiers in the Gaza Strip. He further stated that the IDF is “close to completion.” Disbanding the Hamas battalions in the north of the Gaza Strip.”

According to the IDF, the number of dead soldiers in Gaza is increasing

Three more Israeli soldiers died in the northern Gaza Strip. The IDF announced this, according to Israeli media reports. The soldiers killed were Lt. Yaron Eliezer Chitiz (23), Staff Sergeant Itay Buton (20) and Staff Sgt. Efraim Yachman, 21 years old. The budget of Israeli soldiers killed rises to 164.

Six dead in Israeli drone strike in West Bank

The Palestinian Authority Health Ministry announced that there were at least six Palestinian victims in last night's Israeli raid in the West Bank.

“Six dead and one seriously injured arrived at the Tabet Government Hospital in Tulkarem” after “Israeli occupation forces stormed the towns of Allar, Atil, Qafin and Sidon in the Sharawiyah area north of Tulkarem,” where they searched several houses and farmlands, the official reported Palestinian news agency Wafa. Following the military operations, there were “clashes between young people and the occupying power”. Israeli soldiers also arrested at least one Palestinian who was released from Artah Prison, south of Tulkarem.

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