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Houthi rebels release crew of Galaxy Leader ship seized in Red Sea in November 2023

By Jon Gambrell, Associated Press

Yemen’s Houthi rebels have released the crew of the Galaxy Leader, a vehicle carrier seized in November 2023 at the start of their attacks on shipping in the Red Sea corridor over the Israel-Hamas war.

Israeli strikes kill at least 30 people, including children, in Gaza as stalled ceasefire talks set to resume

By Wafaa Shurafa, Sam Mednick, Associated Press

Hospital staff say at least 30 people, including children, were killed in Gaza by Israeli strikes overnight and Friday morning, as air sirens sounded across Israel and stalled ceasefire talks were set to resume.

Israel targets Houthis in airstrikes on Yemen's capital and ports

By Josef Federman, Wafaa Shurafa, Associated Press

A new round of Israeli airstrikes in Yemen have targeted the Houthi rebel-held capital of Sanaa and multiple ports.

Rocket from Yemen injures 16 in Tel Aviv, while Gazans mourn 12 children killed by Israeli strikes

By Melanie Lidman, Wafaa Shurafa, Associated Press

A rocket fired from Yemen hit an area of Tel Aviv overnight, leaving 16 people injured by shattered glass, the Israeli military said Saturday, while mourners in Gaza held funerals for 19 people — 12 of them children — killed…

WATCH: Pentagon addresses B-2 stealth bomber strikes on Houthi bunkers, death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar

By Associated Press

United States Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a statement that the B-2 bombers targeted “five hardened underground weapons storage locations in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen.”…

Israeli airstrikes kill 7th senior Hezbollah official in Lebanon and hit Houthi targets in Yemen

By Melanie Lidman, Kareem Chehayeb, Associated Press

The Israeli military said Nabil Kaouk, the deputy head of Hezbollah's Central Council, was killed on Saturday. Hezbollah confirmed his death, making him the seventh senior Hezbollah leader slain in Israeli strikes in a little over a week.

Burning oil tanker safely towed away from Yemen after rebel attacks, EU says

By Jon Gambrell, Associated Press

The two events show the challenges still looming for the world as it tries to mitigate a monthslong campaign by the rebels over the Israel-Hamas war raging in the Gaza Strip.

Missile fired from Yemen by Houthi rebels lands in central Israel, triggering air raid sirens

By Natalie Melzer, Ohad Zwigenberg, Associated Press

A missile fired by Yemen's Iran-backed rebels landed in an open area in central Israel early Sunday and triggered air raid sirens at its international airport, in the latest reverberation from the nearly yearlong war in Gaza. Israel hinted that…

Video shows Houthi rebels planted bombs on tanker, putting Red Sea at risk of major oil spill

By Jon Gambrell, Associated Press

Yemen’s Houthi rebels have released footage showing that they boarded and intentionally set explosives aboard a Greek-flagged tanker that was earlier abandoned after they repeatedly attacked it, putting the Red Sea at risk of a major oil spill.

Ship in the Red Sea targeted in a third suspected Houthi attack

By Jon Gambrell, Associated Press

The attacks come as the Yemeni rebels' main sponsor, Iran, weighs possible retaliation against Israel over the assassination of Hamas official Ismail Haniyeh in July, which has renewed fears of a wider regional war in the Middle East.