Israel attacks Lebanon’s BeirutIsrael has carried out an air attack on southern Beirut after issuing a forced evacuation warning.
Footage showed a huge plume of black smoke rising over the capital’s southern suburbs of Dahiyeh after the attack.
No letup in Israeli attacksThe number of Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks since dawn today has now increased to at least 21, according to our team on the ground.
Attacks have been recorded across the Gaza Strip, including in Khan Younis, Deir el-Balah, and Gaza City.
US forces keep up attacks on YemenWe’ve been covering a US raid that destroyed residential buildings in the capital, Sanaa, and wounded at least two people.
The Houthi-affiliated Al Masirah TV says there have been more US attacks elsewhere in the country.
These include:
Ras Isa port in the Hodeidah provinceThe “Galaxy Leader” ship in the port of HodeidahThe island of Kamaran in the Red SeaThe Al Anan district in Al Jawf provinceThe Medghal district in Marib provinceIsraeli military says it shot down missile fired from YemenIn a post on X, the military said the missile was intercepted after rocket sirens were activated in the Arava and Dead Sea region of Israel.
It was intercepted before it crossed into Israeli territory, the military added.
Houthis claim attacks on Israeli military base: ReportThe Yemeni group has claimed to have attacked the Nevatim airbase in southern Israel, according to the Houthi-backed Saba news agency.
“We carried out an operation targeting the Nevatim Air Base in the Negev,” Houthi spokesperson Yahya Saree said, adding that it used a “hypersonic ballistic missile”.
Earlier, Israel said it shot down a missile fired from Yemen after air raid sirens sounded in its Dead Sea region.
This incident came after Yemen’s Health Ministry stated that at least eight civilians, including two children, were wounded in the US attacks on Sanaa on Saturday evening.
Israel launches drone attack on southern LebanonOur colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that there has been an Israeli drone attack on the town of Halta in southern Lebanon.
At least one person was killed in the attack, according to Lebanon’s Al Mayadeen TV.
Hamas again rejects calls for disarmamentAs we’ve been reporting, Hamas officials have been meeting mediators in Cairo to discuss proposals to restore the ceasefire in Gaza.
These negotiations have been at an impasse since Israel abandoned the ceasefire deal agreed in January, by imposing a total blockade on Gaza on March 2 and resumed its deadly attacks on March 17.
Taher al-Nono, a top Hamas official, speaking to the Reuters news agency, insisted on an Israeli commitment to ending the war.
“The idea of a truce or its duration is not rejected by us, and we are ready to discuss it within the framework of negotiations. We are open to any serious proposals to end the war,” he said.
However, al-Nono ruled out a core Israeli demand that Hamas lay down its arms.
“The weapon of resistance is not negotiable and will remain in our hands as long as the occupation exists,” he said.
Mahmud Mardawi, another Hamas official, also emphasised that any new ceasefire would require “guarantees regarding the end of the war”.
He added, “The occupation can return to war after any partial deal, but it cannot do so with a comprehensive deal and international guarantees.”
Israeli soldier, police officer killed in GazaIsrael’s military and its police have issued separate statements announcing that a soldier and an undercover police officer have been killed during the ongoing fighting in the Gaza Strip.
The soldier, 21, was killed in the north of the Gaza Strip, according to the military.
The slain police officer was an undercover officer in the Border Police Southern Yamas Unit, the police said.
The Times of Israel reported that both men were killed while fighting against Hamas in Gaza City’s Shujayea neighbourhood on Friday afternoon.
Ex-Israeli spy chief calls for ‘non-violent civilian revolt’Ami Ayalon, a former chief of the Israeli security agency, Shin Bet, has addressed antigovernment protesters in Tel Aviv, encouraging the crowds to “take to the streets” and “stop the country”.
“Non-violent civilian revolt is the civic duty of every citizen,” Ayalon said, while criticising the Netanyahu government for surveilling “citizens who wish to protest” – a claim also made by the current Shin Bet chief, Ronen Bar, who is engaged in a power struggle with Netanyahu.
“We are fighting for Israel’s Jewish-democratic identity as formulated by the founding fathers in the Declaration of Independence,” Ayalon said.
Two groups of protesters have been staging rallies against Netanyahu’s government every Saturday, with one group gathering to oppose what they call the prime minister’s crackdown on Israeli democracy and the others demanding a deal for the release of Israeli captives in Gaza.
The Times of Israel said the two groups gathered in separate squares in Tel Aviv and then merged, as they do each week, on the city’s Begin Road.
Pro-Israel demonstrators accused of assaulting woman in New YorkThe Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is calling on the New York Police Department (NYPD) to pursue hate crime charges against “members of a pro-Israel mob” who were seen chasing and attacking a woman, whom they thought was Arab-American.
The incident, which was caught on video and posted online, occurred after protesters gathered outside an event where Israel’s far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, was speaking in Brooklyn, New York.
Drop Site News, which posted the video, said the mob threw a traffic cone into her head and a garbage can at her legs, and taunted her “with explicit threats of rape”.
The video showed a single police officer escorting the woman as dozens of men, many of whom appeared to be Orthodox Jewish, followed and harassed her.
CAIR’s national deputy director, Edward Ahmed Mitchell, denounced the men’s actions.
“We strongly condemn the violent mob of pro-Israel racists who chased and attacked a woman down a New York City street while shouting ‘Death to Arabs’ and other vile slurs, such as calling her a ‘waste of semen’,” he said.
“We call on elected officials across New York to condemn these hate actions, and we call on law enforcement to identify and prosecute those responsible for hate crimes,” Mitchell added.
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