Israel orders evacuations in northern Gaza as Trump calls for war to end

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By Nidal Al-Mughrabi Reuters  The Israeli military ordered Palestinians to evacuate areas in northern Gaza on Sunday before intensified fighting against  Hamas , as U.S. President Donald Trump called for an end to the  war  amid renewed efforts to broker a ceasefire. “Make the deal in Gaza, get the hostages back,”  Trump  posted on his Truth Social platform early on Sunday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was due to hold talks later in the day on the progress of Israel’s offensive. A senior security official said the military will tell him the campaign is close to reaching its objectives, and warn that expanding fighting to new areas in Gaza may endanger the remaining Israeli hostages. But in a statement posted on X and text messages sent to many residents, the military urged people in northern parts of the enclave to head south towards the Al-Mawasi area in Khan Younis, which Israel designated as a humanitarian area. Palestinian and U.N. offi...
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Israeli strikes hit Yemen as Netanyahu fires warning

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Israeli air strikes pummelled Sanaa’s international airport and other targets in Yemen on Thursday, with Huthi rebel media reporting six deaths.

World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on social media he was at the airport during the strike, adding that “one of our plane’s crew members was injured”.

The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a request for comment on whether they were aware of his presence at the time.

The strikes targeting the airport, military facilities and power stations in rebel areas follow rising hostilities between Israel and the Huthis, part of Iran’s “axis of resistance” alliance against Israel.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that Israel’s strikes would “continue until the job is done”.

“We are determined to cut this branch of terrorism from the Iranian axis of evil,” he said in a video statement.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday denounced the “escalation” in hostilities between Israel and the Huthis, saying the strikes on the Sanaa airport were “especially alarming”.

Tedros, who was in Yemen to seek the release of detained UN staff and assess the humanitarian situation in war-torn Yemen, said he and his team were about to board their flight when “the airport came under aerial bombardment”.

He said the air traffic control tower, departure lounge and runway were damaged in the strike.

“We will need to wait for the damage to the airport to be repaired before we can leave,” he added.

The rebel-held capital’s airport was struck by “more than six” attacks, with raids also targeting the adjacent Al-Dailami air base, a witness told AFP.

Yemen’s civil aviation authority said the strikes occurred as the UN aircraft “was getting ready for its scheduled flight”, adding that the airport planned to reopen on Friday.

A series of strikes were also fired at a power station in Hodeida, a witness and the Iran-backed Huthis’ official Al-Masirah TV station said.

The station said six people were killed in the strikes. Earlier, Huthi statements said two people died at the rebel-held capital’s airport, and one person was killed at Ras Issa port.

Huthi spokesperson Mohammed Abdulsalam called the strikes, a day after the Huthis fired a missile and two drones at Israel, “a Zionist crime against all the Yemeni people”.

Yemen’s civil aviation authority said the strikes occurred as the UN aircraft “was getting ready for its scheduled flight”, adding that the airport planned to reopen on Friday.

A series of strikes were also fired at a power station in Hodeida, a witness and the Iran-backed Huthis’ official Al-Masirah TV station said.

The station said six people were killed in the strikes. Earlier, Huthi statements said two people died at the rebel-held capital’s airport, and one person was killed at Ras Issa port.

Huthi spokesperson Mohammed Abdulsalam called the strikes, a day after the Huthis fired a missile and two drones at Israel, “a Zionist crime against all the Yemeni people”.



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