US forces continue to bomb YemenThe Houthi-affiliated Al Masirah TV is reporting more US raids on Yemen.
It said there were three attacks on the central province of Marib and four in the southwestern province of Taiz targeting the communications network in the al-Barh area of Maqbanah district. Earlier in the morning, the channel reported four raids on the international airport in the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah and four on the northern Saada province.
The US launched the bombing campaign in Yemen on March 16 after the Houthis, who control most of the impoverished country, threatened to resume attacks on Israel-linked ships in the Red Sea. The US attacks have killed hundreds of Yemenis, including women and children.
Houthis claim attack on IsraelIn a statement, a spokesperson for the Yemeni rebel group says that its fighters launched a ballistic missile and a drone at the areas of Haifa and Jaffa in Israel.
Earlier, we reported that air raid sirens were sounding inside Israeli territory due to attacks coming from the direction of Yemen.
“We will not back down from our duties to support the Palestinians until the aggression on Gaza stops and the siege is lifted,” the Houthi spokesperson said.
60,000 Gaza children show signs of malnutritionTens of thousands of children are now showing symptoms of malnutrition as Israel has been blocking food and medical supplies from entering the enclave for nearly two months, Gaza Health Ministry spokesperson Khalil Deqran has said.
Since March 2, the Israeli military has imposed the blockade on the Strip, insisting it is a tool to pressure Hamas into releasing all the remaining captives. It also resumed its offensive on Gaza on March 18.
Since the blockade began, all 25 UN-supplied bakeries making bread have been shut, with aid agencies warning that the population is on the precipice of starvation and mass disease.
Philippe Lazzarini, the head of UNRWA, described the blockade as collective punishment of Gaza’s people. “The siege must be lifted, supplies must flow in, the hostages must be released, the ceasefire must resume,” he said yesterday in a post on X.
Child burns to death after Israeli attack on Jaffa SchoolWe’ve been covering an Israeli attack that sparked a fire and killed at least 10 people while they slept at a school-turned-shelter in Gaza City.
Our correspondent on the ground says at least one child was among the victims.
The child’s body was burned beyond recognition, according to images from the scene.
“Children are being burned while they sleep in the tents of the displaced,” Al Jazeera’s Anas al-Sharif wrote. “There are no safe areas, and no survivors of this genocide. Gaza City and its northern areas have been subjected to heavy Israeli shelling and artillery fire for hours.”
https://twitter.com/AnasAlSharif0/status/1914854845430800611Death toll from Israeli attacks rises as rescuers appeal for global interventionOur colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that Israeli forces have killed at least 12 people in attacks across Gaza since the early hours of the morning.
The relentless attacks have overwhelmed rescuers in Gaza City.
The Palestinian Civil Defence says people trapped in the rubble of residential buildings, east of the Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza City, are calling for help after a series of Israeli attacks.
But rescuers are unable to reach them since the Israeli military has designated it as a “dangerous area”.
The Civil Defence says it is appealing to the International Committee of the Red Cross for intervention to enable its crews to reach the site of the attack and save the lives of the people trapped there.
Lapid says Israeli government incapable of ‘winning’ war in GazaIsraeli opposition leader Yair Lapid has issued a sharp condemnation of the Netanyahu-led government’s handling of the ongoing war.
“It’s time to recognize the facts: this government is incapable of winning the war,” Lapid said in a post on X.
“They had a year and a half, received full support from the Americans, full support from the opposition, and the excuses are over.”
Students at Yale University rally against upcoming visit by Ben-GvirHundreds of student protesters have gathered at the Yale’s Beinecke Plaza in protest against an upcoming talk by the far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir at Shabtai, a Jewish society that is based near the university.
About 200 students attended the protest and set up eight tents at the plaza, according to the Yale Daily News.
Videos on social media showed hundreds of students chanting, “We will not stop, we will not rest. Disclose, divest,” as they called on the university to oppose the war in Gaza.
The crowds dispersed late on Tuesday evening with organisers promising to stage another protest later today.
Ben-Gvir, who advocates the expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza, is scheduled to speak at Shabtai tonight. His visit to New Haven, where Yale is located, is his first trip to the US since he became Israel’s national security minister.
The protests at Yale came a year after police there arrested nearly 50 students from the university who set up an encampment on campus, urging the institution to divest from any weapons manufacturing companies potentially supplying the Israeli military.
Head of US university says Trump is ‘trying to destroy American higher education’More on the statement from the presidents of US universities and colleges.
Patricia McGuire, the president of Trinity Washington University, is one of the signatories of that statement.
She said she signed on to it “because it’s absolutely essential for every college president in America to confront the Trump administration about the actions they are taking, not only against Harvard, but against many institutions and also against all of our students”.
These include “the snatching of students off the street and sending them into detention, the abolishment of diversity, equity and inclusion programmes that support our Black and Hispanic students in particular”.
McGuire went on to describe Trump’s administration as “lawless”.
“It’s a rich irony that the Trump administration accuses Harvard and others of violating the law, which is not true. There has been no proof that Harvard has violated any law,” she said.
“But meanwhile this administration is acting in the most lawless way possible, violating First Amendment rights, freedom of speech, violating the rights to due process for students and others who are detained without any opportunity to tell their side of the story, and by the way, threatening one of the most important forms of American productivity in the world – America exports more higher education products than just about anything else.
“American higher education has been the pride of this country, and the Trump administration is trying to destroy American higher education, and we must stand against that,” she said.
More than 200 US universities, colleges denounce Trump’s ‘political interference’The leaders of more than 200 universities and colleges in the US have joined forces, signing a statement accusing the Trump administration of political interference in higher education.
The statement signed by presidents from institutions such as Princeton, Brown, Harvard, Columbia, the University of Hawaii and Connecticut State Community College, criticised what it described as “the unprecedented government overreach and political interference now endangering American higher education”.
“We are open to constructive reform and do not oppose legitimate government oversight,” the statement said. “However, we must oppose undue government intrusion in the lives of those who learn, live, and work on our campuses.”
The joint statement comes as the Trump administration seeks to leverage federal funding of medical and other scientific research to overhaul US academia, which the president says is gripped by anti-Semitic, anti-American, Marxist and “radical left” ideologies.
PIJ demands release of senior members detained in SyriaThe Palestinian Islamic Jihad says Syrian authorities have detained two of its members “without any explanation of the reasons” and “in a manner we would not have hoped to see from brothers”.
The group’s armed wing, al-Quds Brigades, identified the two men as Khaled Khaled, who heads Islamic Jihad’s operations in Syria, and Yasser al-Zafari, who heads its organisational committee.
It said the two men had been in Syrian custody for five days and called for their release.
The Reuters news agency says an official from Syria’s Interior Ministry has confirmed the detentions, but did not respond to follow-up questions on why the pair had been arrested.
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