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US Yemen aggression

The US military has struck the western Yemeni oil port of Ras Isa, leaving more than 30 workers and paramedics dead, and scores more injured. The facility in Hudaydah governorate was hit at least two times, with the second strike coming as civil defense and rescue teams were extinguishing fires and recovering victims. The second attack killed at least five paramedics. The Yemeni government slammed the attack as a clear war crime aimed at supporting the Zionist regime and enabling it to continue the Gaza genocide. It said the strikes prove that the US deliberately attacks civilian infrastructure in Yemen with false justifications. The government vowed that this crime would not pass without painful punishment, and the US would reap nothing, but humiliating defeat and failure. The US military claimed the port was a source of fuel for the Ansarullah resistance movement. The governorates of Sana'a, al-Bayda and Hudaydah were also hit with multiple strikes.

US-Israeli Gaza genocide

Another bloody day unfolds in Gaza as Israel continues its relentless air and artillery attacks, while blocking aid entry into the war-ravaged territory. One of the deadliest strikes hit a house east of the Jabaliya refugee camp, in northern Gaza, killing 11 Palestinians, including two children and a woman. Five civilians were killed, and several others wounded in the town of Jabalia and the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood of Gaza City. Multiple casualties were also reported following an airstrike on Gaza City’s Al-Tuffah neighborhood. Over half a dozen civilians died in Israeli airstrikes across central and southern Gaza, including the city of Khan Yunis. Earlier bombings in Deir al-Balah and the southern city of Rafah killed FIVE more Palestinians, including a young girl. The death toll from the Israeli genocide in Gaza now exceeds 51,000, with over 116,500 others injured.

Gaza ceasefire efforts

Senior Hamas official, Khalil al-Hayya, says the group is ready for immediate negotiations on a comprehensive prisoner exchange deal with Israel to release all the regime’s captives at once. Al-Hayya said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sabotaged the Gaza ceasefire agreement before its first phase ended. He said Netanyahu seeks a partial deal to release captives without ending the war or withdrawing from Gaza. He noted that Netanyahu seeks to continue the genocide in Gaza, even at the cost of Israeli captives. Al-Hayya stressed that the resistance and its weapons are a red line and a natural right of the Palestinian people.

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