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The USA says it has destroyed more Houthis drones and missiles. Israel wants to “flood” the Gaza Strip with aid supplies. All developments in the live blog.
Even more than five months after the start of the Gaza war, attacks from the Gaza Strip on Israeli border towns continue. The Israeli army said that a mortar shell had been fired the day before from the central section of the coastal strip in the direction of Kibbutz Nachal Oz, which is close to the border. The projectile was fired within the Gaza Strip. There were rocket alarms in several border towns on Wednesday. “Within minutes, the terrorists responsible for the attempted attack were hit and eliminated by an Israeli fighter jet,” the statement continued.
Several armed Palestinians were killed in further incidents in the Gaza Strip. The army also continued its operations in the south of the Gaza Strip. In Khan Yunis, troops found and destroyed rocket launchers in the Hamad district. Two terrorists were killed there by a fighter jet.
The airline Delta Air Lines wants to resume its flights to Israel, which were stopped after the attack by the terrorist militia Hamas. As the airline announced, there will be a daily connection between New York and Tel Aviv again from June 7th.
The US military says it has destroyed four unmanned aerial systems and a surface-to-air missile in Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen. The attacks came after the Houthi militia fired an anti-ship missile into the Gulf of Aden, US Central Command (Centcom) said on the short message service X.
According to a military spokesman, Israel wants to allow more humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip after increasing international pressure. “We are trying to flood the area with humanitarian aid,” military spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari told a group of foreign reporters. Earlier, the Israeli military announced that six aid convoys carrying supplies from the Food and Agriculture Organization had entered the northern part of the Gaza Strip through the security fence known as the 96th Gate. More such convoys would follow, as would deliveries from other access points, supplemented by air drops and aid deliveries by sea.
However, Hagari acknowledged that delivering aid to the coastal strip was only part of the problem. More needs to be done to solve the problem of fair and efficient distribution to those in need.
The Israeli army says it deliberately killed an important Hamas commander in Rafah. Caritas International does not believe that dropping aid supplies over the Gaza Strip is effective. All developments can be read in the live blog.