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05/06/2025May 6, 2025
Israel says Yemen’s main airport fully disabled
The Israeli military says it has launched airstrikes against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, fully disabling the country’s main international airport in the capital, Sanaa.
The military also said it had struck several power plants. It had earlier warned people to leave the area around the main airport in Yemen’s Sanaa, a day after it struck the Yemeni port of Hodeidah.
The Israeli attack on Monday killed four people and injured 39, according to the Houthi health officials. It came in response to a a day earlier.
Foreign airlines had began to resume flights to Israel in recent months, but some companies responded to the latest attack by halting flights once again.
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Skip next section Far-right Israeli minister hopes for annexation of West Bank
05/06/2025May 6, 2025
Far-right Israeli minister hopes for annexation of West Bank
Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich described his idea of Israel’s victory over the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas as Gaza being “destroyed” and its civilian inhabitants evacuated.
“Gaza will be entirely destroyed, civilians will be sent to… the south to a humanitarian zone without Hamas or terrorism, and from there they will start to leave in great numbers to third countries,” the firebrand politician told a conference in the Israeli settlement of Ofra in the occupied West Bank.
Smotrich also expressed his hope that the occupied would be formally annexed during the current government’s term, which could last until late next year.
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Skip next section France condemns Israel’s Gaza conquest plan
05/06/2025May 6, 2025
France condemns Israel’s Gaza conquest plan
France has said it “strongly condemns” the Israeli plan to conquer the Gaza Strip and its new military campaign in the Palestinian territory, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on Tuesday.
“It is unacceptable,” said Barrot in an interview with the broadcaster RTL, adding that the Israeli government “violates humanitarian law.”
“What is urgent is a ceasefire and unhindered access to humanitarian aid, massively,” Barrot added.
His comments came a day after the Israeli security cabinet announced that it had adopted a plan to expand the military campaign in the Gaza Strip, which includes the “conquest” of the Palestinian enclave and control of the territories seized.
This plan would also entail the internal displacement of the majority of Gazans, according to the army.
Virtually all of the Gaza Strip’s inhabitants — some 2.4 million people — have been displaced several times since the war in the territory began in October 2023.
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Skip next section Hamas says ‘no point’ in Gaza truce talks
05/06/2025May 6, 2025
Hamas says ‘no point’ in Gaza truce talks
After the revelation of an Israeli plan to conquer , a senior official with said the group rejected all further ceasefire talks.
“There is no point in holding talks or considering new proposals for a ceasefire as long as the war of hunger and annihilation in the Gaza Strip continues,” Hamas representative Basem Naim told the AFP news agency on Tuesday.
Hamas is labeled as terror group by many nations, including Germany and the US.
Naim said the world must pressure the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to end the “crimes of hunger, thirst, and killings” in Gaza.
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Skip next section Welcome to our coverage05/06/2025May 6, 2025
Welcome to our coverage
Welcome to our coverage of the ongoing conflict in where Israel has said it will intensify attacks and displace people within the enclave.
Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has said his vision of victory inlcudes the Gaza Strip being “entirely destroyed” with civilians relocated at the end of the after the ongoing war with Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas.
Separately, Israel said it bombed the main airport in Yemen’s capital Saana, after hitting the port city of Hodeidah the day before.
Israel’s offensive in Gaza has so far killed more than 52,000 Palestinians, the majority of which are civilians, according to the Hamas-rung Gaza Health Ministry.
The broke out on October 7, 2023, when militants led by — designated a terror group by Germany, Israel and the US among others — launched a major assault on Israel resulting in the deaths of more than 1,200 people, mostly civilians.
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