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An RAF Typhoon aircraft at Akrotiri base in Cyprus, after returning after striking military targets in Yemen on January 12. Sergeant Lee Goddard/MoD/Bulletin/ReutersA senior Houthi official said on Friday that the joint strikes carried out by the United States and Britain in Yemen on Thursday were “brutal.”Muhammad Ali Al-Houthi, head of the group’s Supreme Revolutionary Committee, said in a statement to ChannelHe added that the attacks showed that the United States is the one “managing the aggression” in Gaza as well as in Yemen.Thursday’s strikes represent a significant response after the United States and its allies warned the Iran-backed militant…

Palestinians walk through the rubble of destroyed buildings in Gaza City after weeks of Israeli bombing, as a four-day ceasefire comes into effect, on November 24, 2023. Omar Al-Gatta/AFP/Getty Images/FileThe South African government, which succeeded the apartheid regime that became a pariah on the international scene three decades ago, filed the case against Israel, accusing it of violating its obligations under the Genocide Convention in its war on Hamas in Gaza. South Africa asked the court to indicate “interim measures” to protect the rights of Palestinians in Gaza “from imminent and irreparable loss.” Interim measures act as a type of…

The World Health Organization stressed that it “cannot afford” to lose the remaining functioning hospitals in southern Gaza, warning that the Strip’s health care sector is collapsing “at a rapid pace.” As Israeli calls for evacuations continue to push people into the south of the Strip, the World Health Organization said they have strained already strained facilities in the area. Shaun Casey, coordinator of the World Health Organization’s emergency medical team, said at a press conference on Tuesday that the region’s hospitals were “now filling up with patients” and internally displaced people.Only 13 out of 36 hospitals in Gaza are…

Some buildings were flattened or partially collapsed. Others are exposed to bullet holes or smoke marks. Civilians are nowhere to be found. This is the scene that CNN found on the outskirts of Bureij in the central Gaza Strip after three months of war.CNN accompanied the Israeli military on Monday, to get a glimpse of the devastation inside Gaza and a rare look at Hamas’s alleged underground infrastructure and weapons manufacturing uncovered by Israeli forces.Next to bulldozed farmland and inside an ordinary building, the Israeli army took journalists inside the opening of what it said was a tunnel system leading…

Israeli bombing lights up the night sky over Khan Yunis, Gaza, on January 7. AFP/Getty ImagesThe Israeli army said that it carried out 30 raids on Monday night on the southern city of Khan Yunis, at a time when it is intensifying its military attack on the central and southern Gaza Strip. CNN cannot independently verify the operational details reported by the IDF. The Israeli army said that the Israeli forces and air force bombed “underground targets, terrorist infrastructure and weapons storage facilities.” The Israeli army claimed that in Khan Yunis, “the forces identified 10 terrorists in the areas from…

It has been three months since the devastating Hamas attack that sparked the Israeli war in Gaza, and the deadly fighting has led to a dire humanitarian crisis in the region. The Israeli army began an attack on the Palestinian Strip after Hamas militants launched a brutal attack on Israel on October 7, in which militants killed about 1,200 people and took more than 200 hostage, according to Israeli authorities.In the three months following the attack, more than 22,700 Gazans were killed, according to the Hamas-run Health Ministry.Here’s a look at some key moments in the conflict:October 7: Hamas attack.…

Israeli troops move out of Gaza as smoke rises on January 5. Amir Levy/Getty ImagesNearly three months into Israel’s military onslaught against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, divisions within its wartime government have become increasingly public.Some of Israel’s leading politicians publicly feuded Friday after what one source described as a “fight” in a security cabinet meeting over how to handle investigations into the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel.There have also been public disagreements about the post-war plan for Gaza.Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant outlined a vision Thursday that envisages no Hamas control of the enclave and no presence of…

Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich attends a meeting at the parliament in Jerusalem on March 20. Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP/Getty ImagesDivisions have continued to deepen between Israeli ministers over the plan for war-ravaged Gaza once the conflict ends.Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has criticized the plan outlined Thursday by Defense Minister Yoav Gallant which envisages a Gaza no longer controlled by Hamas, which would no longer “pose a security threat to the citizens of Israel.” But far-right settler leader Smotrich decried the plan outlined by his colleague.”Gallant’s plan for ‘The Day After’ is a rerun of ‘The Day Before’ on October 7,” Smotrich wrote…

Israel’s military on Wednesday released a video that it claims shows the dismantlement of a tunnel route it accuses Hamas of excavating under Al-Shifa Hospital, the largest medical complex in Gaza.According to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), the underground tunnel route was dismantled on November 24 by special forces and soldiers from the Yahalom Unit, which specializes in engineering tasks.The IDF claims the hospital was not damaged and that humanitarian activities were able to continue while it dismantled the tunnel route, which it says spanned more than 250 meters.CNN cannot independently verify the IDF’s claims.Israel accused Hamas of developing the tunnel system beneath the…

Palestinians cross a flooded street at a makeshift camp housing displaced Palestinians in Rafah, Gaza, on January 2. AFP/Getty ImagesMuhammad Hamouda says that the streets of the city of Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, are full of pollution as beggars and displaced civilians try to survive in shelter conditions ravaged by death and disease.“Life here is very difficult,” the physical therapist, who works at Abu Youssef al-Najjar Hospital in Rafah and volunteers at a nearby shelter, told CNN on Tuesday. “Hundreds of thousands cannot find shelter,” he said. “The others sleep on the sidewalk.”Hamouda and his family…