Trump has ‘heated phone call’ with Netanyahu over Israeli airstrike targeting Hamas in Qatar: Latest – UK Times

Israel struck the Yemeni capital Sanaa and the northern province of al-Jawf on Wednesday, with the Houthi health ministry saying it killed 35 people and wounded 131 others.

The strikes are the latest in a series of attacks and counterstrikes between Israel and Houthi militants in Yemen, part of a spillover from the war in Gaza.

The Israeli military said it had struck military camps, the headquarters of the Houthi military “propaganda” department, and a fuel storage site.

The Houthis’ military spokesperson denied in a statement later that Israel had targeted missile launchers. “Its strikes targeted purely civilian targets,” he said.

He added that the offices of two newspapers had been targeted and that journalists and passers-by had been killed or wounded in those attacks. He gave no figures.

Sanaa residents told Reuters the attack had targeted a hideout between two mountains that is used as a command and control headquarters. The extent of any damage was not immediately clear.

The Israeli strikes also targeted the Houthi defence ministry, witnesses said.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer reiterated to Israeli President Isaac Herzog his “huge concern” over Gaza and implored Israel to change course during a meeting in London, Starmer’s office said.

A Downing Street spokesperson said Starmer had told Herzog Israel “must stop the manmade famine from worsening further by letting aid in and halting their offensive operations.”

Starmer also told Herzog that the UK and Israel were longstanding allies and that “he will continue his work to secure an enduring peace and a better future for the Israeli and Palestinian people alike,” the spokesperson added.

Completely unprecedented.

This was the two-word description voiced to me by a shocked diplomat in the Middle East in the immediate aftermath of Israel’s extraordinary missile strike on Qatar this afternoon.