Houthi Drone Strikes Israeli Airport In Rare Hit, As IDF Escalates Gaza City Attacks
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The attack on Ramon Airport comes as Israeli forces level another high-rise tower that housed hundreds of displaced Palestinians in the dense city.
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — A drone fired by Yemen’s Houthi rebels breached Israel’s multilayered air defenses on Sunday and slammed into the country’s southern airport, the Israeli military said, blowing out glass windows, wounding one person and briefly shutting down commercial airspace.
The damage to Ramon Airport appeared limited and flights resumed within hours. The Houthis claimed responsibility for the strike.
The attack follows Israeli strikes on Yemen’s rebel-held capital that killed the Houthi prime minister and other top officials in a major escalation of the nearly 2-year-old conflict between Israel and the Iran-backed militant group
In Gaza City, the Israeli military on Sunday leveled another high-rise tower that housed hundreds of displaced Palestinians and urged people to move south as it intensified its offensive on the city.
Meanwhile, a breakthrough Israeli Supreme Court decision ruled that Israel was not providing Palestinian detainees in its custody with enough food to ensure basic sustenance. It ordered the state to “guarantee basic living conditions in accordance with the law” for the thousands of Palestinians in its detention facilities. Many of them have been arrested as part of Israel’s campaign against Hamas in Gaza and the West Bank since the group’s deadly Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel.
The U.S. Navy says the risk of attacks is too high for now, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Oil prices exceeded $100 per barrel on Monday, reaching peaks unseen since 2022, as the Iran war triggered a global energy crisis.
The officials also claimed that the sharp increase in gasoline prices resulting from the Iran war would last only weeks.
Bahrain has accused Iran of striking a desalination plant as the regional war expands and targets more civilian sites in Gulf states.
It was not immediately clear what caused the blast or who was involved, the Oslo police department said in a separate statement.
Among the injured are three minors: one 16-year-old and two 17-year-olds, according to the executive director of the Trujillo Health Network.
The Milan Cortina Winter Paralympics has officially opened with some countries boycotting the opening ceremony because of the return of the Russian flag to the global sports stage.
Oil prices hit their highest levels in almost two years, and Qatari officials warn they could spike as high as $150 per barrel.
A blackout has left millions of people without power in Havana and the rest of western Cuba in the latest outage on an island struggling with dwindling oil reserves and a crumbling electric grid.
Their entry into the war could pose a significant challenge to the embattled authorities in Tehran and could also risk pulling Iraq further into the conflict.
In a new text approved by Pope Leo, a top Vatican commission warned it can lead to an unrealistic search for a perfect figure.
The goal would be to create room for Iranians opposed to the Islamic regime to rise up, they noted.
Ten people were killed when protesters breached the compound’s outer wall after the killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.