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Israel claims to have intercepted projectile from Yemen, fires reported from debris
Israeli firefighters were battling blazes Monday west of Jerusalem, with the army saying the fires were sparked by debris from an intercepted missile fired from Yemen, AFP reports.
Firefighters were working to douse the blazes, conducting scans around Beit Shemesh to rule out more fires and “damage from interceptor/missile shrapnel”, the Jerusalem region fire service said.
In a statement on its official Telegram channel, the IDF said:
Following the sirens that sounded in the Shfelat Yehuda, Yehuda, and Lakhish areas of central Israel, the IAF intercepted one projectile that approached Israel from the direction of Yemen. The projectile did not cross into Israeli territory. Sirens were sounded in accordance with protocol.
Asked directly about the incident by AFP, the Israeli military said the interception of a projectile from Yemen caused fires in the Bet Shemesh area resulting from debris from that interception.
In a separate development, Reuters reports Al-Masirah TV, the main television news outlet run by Yemen’s Houthi movement, said early on Monday that a series of airstrikes targeted the Amran and Saada governorates, which they claim were carried out by the US and Britain.
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Israel’s military reports on its official Telegram channel that overnight it “successfully intercepted four UAVs that approached Israel from the east.”
When IDF statements say generically “from the east” they usually mean from the direction of Iraq.
Palestinian news agency Wafa reports more arrests overnight made by Israeli security forces in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
It reports a young man was arrested in Shuafat refugee camp, in East Jerusalem, after forces raided his home.
In addition, during an Israeli raid on the Jalazone refugee camp, north of Ramalla, one man was injured by fire from Israeli security forces, and two people were detained.
The claims have not been independently verified.
Hani Mahmoud, reporting for Al Jazeera from Deir el-Balah in Gaza, writes for the network that a journalist and his wife were killed in overnight Israeli attacks on their tents in Gaza.
He writes:
They had set the tents up seeking protection from the unpredictable Israeli bombs after their home in the Nuseirat refugee camp was destroyed a few months ago. This particular area of the northern Nuseirat refugee camp is very close to the edge of the Netzarim Junction. The Israeli army has a very strong and visible presence there. That area has been relentlessly attacked, and people there are exposed to daily terror, from the heavy machineguns, the quadcopters and the drones that are hovering at a very low level.
Al Jazeera has been banned from operating inside Israel by Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.
Outgoing US president Joe Biden is due to meet with Israel’s president Isaac Herzog on Tuesday, according to a report from Reuters. The meeting comes as a deadline set by the US for improved delivery of humanitarian aid to the beseiged northern part of the Gaza Strip comes closer to expiry.
Israel claims to have intercepted projectile from Yemen, fires reported from debris
Israeli firefighters were battling blazes Monday west of Jerusalem, with the army saying the fires were sparked by debris from an intercepted missile fired from Yemen, AFP reports.
Firefighters were working to douse the blazes, conducting scans around Beit Shemesh to rule out more fires and “damage from interceptor/missile shrapnel”, the Jerusalem region fire service said.
In a statement on its official Telegram channel, the IDF said:
Following the sirens that sounded in the Shfelat Yehuda, Yehuda, and Lakhish areas of central Israel, the IAF intercepted one projectile that approached Israel from the direction of Yemen. The projectile did not cross into Israeli territory. Sirens were sounded in accordance with protocol.
Asked directly about the incident by AFP, the Israeli military said the interception of a projectile from Yemen caused fires in the Bet Shemesh area resulting from debris from that interception.
In a separate development, Reuters reports Al-Masirah TV, the main television news outlet run by Yemen’s Houthi movement, said early on Monday that a series of airstrikes targeted the Amran and Saada governorates, which they claim were carried out by the US and Britain.
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Israeli firefighters were battling blazes Monday west of Jerusalem, with the army saying the fires were sparked by debris from an intercepted missile fired from Yemen
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Yemen’s Al Masirah TV reports more US-British strikes on the Houthi-controlled area of the country
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Outgoing US president Joe Biden is set to meet with Israel’s president Isaac Herzog on Tuesday
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Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said yesterday that he had spoken with US president-elect Donald Trump three times in the past few days
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About 40 people have been fined and released over public disorder in Amsterdam last week, with the city’s police chief saying “incidents on both sides” led to violent unrest surrounding the Ajax v Maccabi Tel Aviv match
