At least 17 Palestinians killed in Israeli air strikes in Gaza
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Israeli military airstrikes on the Gaza Strip kill at least 17 Palestinians, including 8 at a school sheltering displaced families. gaza cityThe doctors said.
Palestinian doctors said eight people, including children, were killed. Musa Bin Nusayr School Which provided shelter to displaced families in Gaza city.
Also in Gaza City, medics said four Palestinians were killed after a car was hit by an air strike. At least five other Palestinians were killed in two separate air strikes in Rafah and Khan Yunis, south of the enclave.
Several people have been injured in Israeli attacks on Kamal Adwan hospital in northern
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According to Arab media, the Israeli forces reportedly fired directly at the facility’s ICU and maternity wards, as well as the nearby Al-Awda Hospital. Hussam Abu Safia, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, said the army ordered staff to evacuate the hospital and take patients and injured to other hospitals in the area. Abu Safiya said the mission was “almost impossible” because staff did not have ambulances to transport patients. “The reports of bombing near Kamal Adwan Hospital tonight and the order to evacuate the hospital is extremely worrying. “The hospital has been in the middle of a fight for too long and patients’ lives are at risk,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wrote in a post on X, late last night.
The US military said it accidentally shot down one of its own fighter planes over the Red Sea on Sunday morning.
Due to which both the pilots were forced to eject. Both were rescued, one with minor injuries, after an “apparent case of friendly fire” which is being investigated, US Central Command said in a statement. The fighter aircraft was the F/A-18 Hornet which was based on the aircraft carrier Harry S. Was flying from Truman. One of the carrier’s escort ships, the missile cruiser Gettysburg, “accidentally opened fire and hit the aircraft,” the statement said.
The US military carried out airstrikes against Houthis
The US military carried out airstrikes against a missile storage facility and a command-and-control facility of Houthis in Yemen’s capital Sana, on Saturday. US military Central Command said the strikes were aimed at “disrupting and humiliating” Houthi operations, including strikes against US Navy warships and merchant vessels in the southern Red Sea, Bab al-Mandeb and the Gulf of Aden. The attack follows a similar attack last week by US aircraft against a command and control facility run by the Houthis, who control much of Yemen. The US strike on Sanaa came the same day a Houthi missile struck Israel’s commercial hub Tel Aviv, wounding 16 people in the second such airstrike in a matter of days.
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Turkey has vowed to do “whatever it takes” to ensure its security The country’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Saturday that the new Syrian administration could not address Ankara’s concerns about US-allied Kurdish groups if they were considered a terrorist group. Turkey views the YPG, a militant group led by US ally Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), as an extension of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants who have fought an insurgency against the Turkish state for 40 years and are considered terrorists. Ankara, Washington and the European Union.
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The United Nations has warned that people living in temporary shelters will not be able to survive the winter. Nearly 2 million Palestinians have been displaced by Israel’s war on the territory and are struggling to protect themselves from the wind, cold and rain.