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Crossfire is escalating between Israel and Houthis in Yemen. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel is at the beginning of its campaign against the Iran-aligned Houthis. Israel bombed several targets in Yemen on Thursday, including Sanaa International Airport and the Hezyaz and Ras Kanatib power stations, the army said. The UN has condemned the strikes as “especially alarming”. The director of the World Health Organisation was at the airport when it was struck.

At least 15 people were killed and dozens more injured in the latest Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip, which targeted two residential homes in Gaza city and its southern and northern districts, Wafa reported. An air strike hit a home in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood on Thursday night, killing at least 13 people, including women and children, said the report, quoting local sources.

Gulf countries on Thursday issued a firm call for Israel to withdraw from the Syrian lands it recently occupied after taking advantage of a security vacuum following the collapse of the former regime. The call was issued at the start of an extraordinary meeting for the ministers of foreign affairs of the Gulf Co-operation Council in Kuwait to discuss recent developments in Syria and Lebanon.