A septuagenarian Israeli woman who was taken hostage during Hamas’s attack on southern Israel on 0ct. 7, 2023 has died.

The Iranian-backed rebels have kept up a steady drumbeat of attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea despite a U.S. campaign to stop them.

No reports of injuries due to falling fragments, though woman in serious condition after falling while running to shelter; Houthis say attacks will continue until Gaza war ends The post Israel intercepts Houthi missile as sirens wail across central Israel appeared first on The Times of Israel.

Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip overnight and into Sunday killed at least 22 people, including five children, Palestinian medical officials said, while Gaza's small Christian community celebrated a pre-Christmas Mass.

At least 28 people, including children, have died in a wave of Israeli military strikes throughout the Gaza Strip, according to Gaza's civil defence agency. A school sheltering displaced families was among the facilities struck,

The Israeli official threatened to take similar action against the leadership of the Houthi rebel group in Yemen.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz admitted on Monday (December 23) for the first time publicly to Israel's killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran in July, further risking tensions between Tehran and its arch-enemy Israel in a region shaken by Israel's war in Gaza and the conflict in Lebanon.

Israel's defence minister has for the first time acknowledged that Israel killed Hamas's political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran in July. Israel Katz made the comments in a speech vowing to target the heads of the Iran-backed Houthi movement in Yemen,