Israeli airstrike kills 16 in southern Gaza

A Palestinian woman embraces a lightly injured boy as they check the rubble of their destroyed home in Rafah. Pic/AP

An Israeli airstrike on a home killed 16 people, half of them children, in the southern Gaza town of Rafah, medics said early Thursday. The military continued to strike targets in areas of the besieged territory where it has told civilians to seek refuge. There was meanwhile no word on whether medicines that entered the territory Wednesday as part of a deal brokered by France and Qatar had been distributed to dozens hostages with chronic illnesses who are being held by Hamas.

More than 100 days after Hamas triggered the war, Israel continues to wage one of the deadliest and most destructive military campaigns in recent history, with the goal of dismantling Hamas. Meanwhile, Hamas militants are keeping up a stiff resistance across the Gaza Strip to Israel's offensive. The war shows no sign of ending and has inflamed tensions across the Middle East, with a dizzying array of strikes and counterstrikes in recent days. More than 24,000 Palestinians have been killed so far, while some 85 per cent of the narrow coastal territory's 2.3 million people have fled their homes, and the United Nations says a quarter of the population is starving.

US launches another barrage of missiles on Houthi sites

The US military fired another wave of ship- and submarine-launch missile strikes against Houthi-controlled sites Wednesday, US Central Command said, marking the fourth time in days it has directly targeted the group in Yemen as violence that ignited in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war continues to spill over in the Middle East. "Forces conducted strikes on 14 Iran-backed Houthi missiles that were loaded to be fired in Houthi controlled areas in Yemen," Central Command said.

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