JERUSALEM -- Israel's military spokesperson Effie Defrin said Thursday that Israeli forces control about 40 percent of Gaza City and will "expand and intensify" the offensive in the coming days to seize the enclave's largest urban center.
Defrin said in a briefing that as part of the assault, which he said began "in recent weeks," tens of thousands of reservists have been mobilized to join regular forces currently maneuvering in the Zeitoun neighborhood in the southeast of the city and in Sheikh Radwan in the north. (Israel-Gaza City-Control)
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JERUSALEM -- The Israeli military said on Thursday that a dozen senior Houthi officials were killed in the airstrikes on a meeting point in Sanaa last week.
The strikes last Thursday targeted a military facility in the Yemeni capital used by senior Houthi commanders, where military officials and government ministers were present, the military said in a statement. (Israel-Airstrike-Houthi Officials)
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GAZA -- Gaza health authorities said on Thursday that 84 Palestinians were killed and 338 wounded in Israeli attacks across the enclave in the past 24 hours.
The latest casualties brought the Palestinian death toll since the war began on Oct. 7, 2023, to 64,231, with 161,583 injured. At least 2,356 people have been killed and more than 17,244 wounded while trying to obtain food, the authorities said in a statement. (Gaza Strip-Hamas-Israel)
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CAIRO -- An Arab ministerial committee here on Thursday rejected "the Israeli measures to isolate Jerusalem," stressing that "Israel has no sovereignty over Jerusalem and its Islamic and Christian holy sites."
The committee, in charge of international action to confront illegal Israeli policies and measures in Jerusalem, issued a joint statement following its 10th meeting on the sidelines of the 164th regular meeting of the Council of the Arab League (AL). (Egypt-Arab Committee-Rejection) ■
