Yemeni rebel missile hits central Israel in rare attack

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A Yemeni rebel missile triggered a rush to shelters in central Israel yesterday, a rare incident that caused no casualties but again added to regional tensions nearly a year into the Gaza war. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the rebels will pay a “heavy price”.

AFP photographers saw firefighters putting out a brush fire near Lod and broken glass at a train station in Modin, about 20 kilometres (12 miles) southeast of Tel Aviv, Israel’s commercial hub, after the attack. Yemen’s Huthi rebels claimed the strike.

Hamas says has ‘high ability’ to continue Gaza war

Meanwhile, a senior Hamas official told AFP yesterday that the Palestinian Islamist movement had ample resources to continue fighting Israel despite losses sustained over more than 11 months of war in Gaza.

“The resistance has a high ability to continue,” Osama Hamdan told AFP during an interview in Istanbul. “There were martyrs and there were sacrifices... but in return there was an accumulation of experiences and the recruitment of new generations into the resistance.”

His comments came less than a week after Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant told journalists that Hamas, whose October 7 attack triggered the war, “no longer exists” as a military formation in Gaza.