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Israel-Hamas war live updates: Pakistan carries out retaliatory strikes in Iran

The U.S. military struck multiple Houthi rebel missile sites in Yemen last night as clashes across the Middle East stoke fears of broader escalation.
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Pentagon spokesperson Maj Gen Patrick Ryder was vague about the amount of damage the US believes it did to the Houthi’s capacity to launch missiles and drones, declining to endorse leaks to the New York Times suggesting about 25% of the Yemeni group’s attack capability was degraded.

Since Friday initial 150 bomb assault by UK & US plus follow-up attack on radar facility 24 hrs later – Houthi rebels then launched missile at a US navy destroyer (which was shot down), struck two commercial vessels with missiles, damaging each of them slightly & aimed a drone at a third, again causing some damage but no injuries. Thursday, movement’s leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, in his first speech since US led intervention, said it was “a great honour” to be in direct confrontation with the Israelis, Americans and the British.

It remained unclear Houthis’ ability to mount attacks on shipping in Red Sea using either missiles & drones had been damaged. Houthis broadened their theatre of operation, a sign that some of their missile launch pads is been struck & impact on global supply chains was one of chief topics@World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, an indication of how group has catapulted itself as a geopolitical force. Isaac Herzog, Israel’s president saying “a little tribe of 50,000 people amassed with weapons of an empire. What is going on here?.” Houthi said their attacks on commercial shipping in Red Sea will end as soon as the “Israeli aggression” in Gaza stops...STOP

In Davos, UK foreign secretary, David Cameron, met deputy president of Yemen’s UN-recognised govt, Maj Gen Aidarus al-Zoubaidi, to discuss the conflict & fate of UN-led peace talks on Houthis & UN, had doubt meeting going ahead b'cos, British concern Zoubaidi’s strong calls for west to supply govt with equipment, training and intelligence to help defeat Houthis. As head Southern Transitional Council, he leads movement calling for Yemen to be divided into north and south, a position not endorsed by Uk govt a lead adversary of Houthis praised Washington’s decision to reclassify Houthi militias as a “global terrorist group”. “Houthi terrorist caused great harm to citizens & affected flow goods aid to other ports”.