Israel's army detained the director of one of the last functioning hospitals in northern Gaza as overnight strikes in the enclave killed nine people including children, Palestinian medical officials said,

Tedros, who was at Sanaa airport to board a flight, criticised Israel's lack of respect for international law after it struck the facility, killing 4 people.

From the largest war in Europe since World War II continuing in Ukraine to a series of escalations upending the Middle East, 2024 saw many powers rise and fall.

The announcement comes after health officials said Israeli troops stormed the hospital on Friday and forced many staff and patients outside to strip in winter weather, according to the ministry.

"It’s a matter of luck, otherwise, if the missile deviated just slightly, it could have been on our head," Tedros Ghebreyesus told the British radio station

Israel has severely weakened Hamas and Hezbollah. Now it's going after another member of Iran's so-called axis of resistance: the Houthi rebels of Yemen.

Israel's recent strikes in Yemen were effective, but to neutralize the Houthis long-term, the Iranian supply line into Yemen must be shut down, Prof. Amatzia Baram emphasized in a Friday interview with Maariv. Baram is a professor emeritus of Middle East ...

Israel is signaling a wider campaign against Houthi militants in Yemen, a mountainous and impoverished country more than 1,000 miles from Israeli territory.

The head of the World Health Organization said on Friday he was not sure he was going to survive an air strike on Yemen's main airport carried out by Israel a day earlier during a series of attacks on the Iran-aligned Houthi movement.

An advanced U.S. military anti-missile system was used in Israel to try to intercept a projectile for the first time since President Joe Biden placed the system in Israel in October, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday.

Flights were scheduled to resume again on Friday at Sanaa international airport, officials said, a day after the airport was hit by Israeli strikes.