
The Middle East was reeling Sunday from deadly violence with lsrael bombing Gaza, Lebanon and Yemen in quick succession in response to attacks from the places.
Despite Washington’s top diplomat asserting a deal is near the ‘goal line’ to end more than nine months of devastating carnage by lsrael in Gaza, the lsraeli military said it intercepted a missile fired from Yemen.
Dozens have been killed since Saturday across the Gaza strip the civil defence agency said, including in strikes on homes in the central Nuseirat and Bureij areas and displaced people near southern Khan Yunis.
Residents said a major operation was underway in the Saudi district of Rafah in the south, reporting heavy artillery and clashes.
Israel’s military operations have killed at least 38,919 Palestinians so far.
The deadly strikes in Gaza came hours after Hezbollah and its ally Hamas said they fired at lsraeli positions from south Lebanon, while Yemen vowed to respond to lsraeli warplanes hitting a key port.
The fire left raging by the strikes on Yemen’s Hodeida port ‘is seen across the Middle East and the significance is clear,’ lsraeli defence minister Yoav Gallant said.
Detailing the first strikes claimed by lsrael in Yemen, Gallant warned of further operations if Yemen ‘dares to attack us’ after a drone strike killed one in Tel Aviv on Friday.
In Hodeida, three people were killed and 87 wounded, Yemeni health officials said in a statement.
The Palestine, Lebanon and Yemen vowed to keep up attacks on lsrael until a truce ends the violence in Gaza, which lies in ruins, with most residents forced to flee their homes.
Before the drone attack, the lsraeli army said a total of 45 rockets had been fired from Lebanon.
On Saturday afternoon, towards the occupied Golan Heights and the Galilee, reporting no casualties.
The army said it struck ‘the launcher in southern Lebanon from which the projectiles were launched towards the Golan Heights, targeting an additional Hezbollah launcher’.
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah had warned that the group would hit new targets in lsrael if more civilians were killed in lsraeli strikes.
The violence since October 7 has killed at least 515 people Lebanon, according to an AFP tally.