On the first day of 2024, and just as the region entered January 1, the Israeli army fired barrages of missiles and shells at various parts of the Gaza Stri .
The Israeli military confirmed that reservists from at least two brigades will be sent home this week, though the IDF did not say whether the troop drawdown reflects a new stage of the war in Gaza.
Service members aboard the US Navy helicopters returned fire on Houthi gunmen, sinking three boats and killing the crews, US officials said. A fourth boat fled the area.Rina Bassist, Ezgi Akin, Beatrice Farhat, Elizabeth Hagedorn, Adam Lucente, Jack Dutton, Jared Szuba and Al-Monitor’s contributors on the ground in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel contributed to this blog.
The USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft strike group, deployed to the Mediterranean Sea by the Pentagon to deter attacks by Iran-backed groups, will be pulled in the coming days, according to an ABC News report.
A prominent preacher at Masjid Al Aqsa in occupied Jerusalem and former Minister of Awqaf and Religious Affairs Palestine, Sheikh Yousef Salama, has been killed in the Israeli missile attack on his home in Gaza Sunday December 31, 2023.