Updates: US attacks Yemen again after 80 killed in overnight strikes

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We will be closing this live page soon. Here is a recap of the day’s main events:

• Medical sources told Al Jazeera that at least 58 people have been killed by Israeli attacks since dawn on Friday.
• An Israeli air raid has hit a makeshift barber shop in Khan Younis, killing at least six people.
• More US attacks hit Yemen as the death toll in overnight attacks on Ras Isa port goes up to 80.
• Hezbollah “will not let anyone disarm” it, the Lebanese group’s leader, Naim Qassem, said, as the US presses Lebanon to compel the group to hand over its weapons.
• Lebanon’s Health Ministry says two people have been killed in separate Israeli drone strikes in southern Lebanon.
• UNRWA stated that it estimates nearly 420,000 Palestinians have been displaced since the Gaza ceasefire broke down on March 18.

A US court has ordered immigration authorities to transfer Turkish student Rumeysa Ozturk to Vermont, where her legal petition to be released from detention could be reviewed while she is present in person.

Ozturk – a graduate student at Tufts University – was arrested by plain-clothed, masked immigration agents last month over her support for Palestinian rights.

A federal judge found that Ozturk has constitutional grounds to challenge her detention, dismissing the Trump administration’s argument that federal district courts cannot review its actions on immigration.

Ozturk was moved to Louisiana after her detention in what critics say is part of a government effort to keep detainees away from their supporters and lawyers – and in conservative-leaning legal districts.

“For the foregoing reasons, the Court concludes that this case will continue in this Court with Ms Ozturk physically present for the remainder of the proceedings,” US District Judge William Sessions said.

The Pentagon says the “consolidation” of US troops in Syria “reflects the significant steps” made to degrade the “appeal and operational capability” of ISIL (ISIS) in the region and around the world.

“As this consolidation takes place, consistent with President Trump’s commitment to peace through strength, US Central Command will remain poised to continue strikes against the remnants of ISIS in Syria,” the department said in a statement.

“We will also work closely with capable and willing Coalition partners to maintain pressure on ISIS and respond to any other terrorist threats that arise.”

The US started sending troops to Syria in 2014 with the stated objective of defeating ISIL, but American forces remained in the country after the group’s territorial defeat in 2017.

The National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) is calling on members of the Muslim community in the country to make an informed choice in the federal election, as advanced polls opened earlier today.

“We encourage you to do your homework and make an informed decision to figure out: who is best for your children? Unfortunately, the stakes couldn’t be higher for them,” the group said in an email.

“If things go poorly, and we don’t get out there in the next week, we are looking at a minimum of close to half a decade where Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian racism could remain major parts of our national debate.”

The group also said Gaza has become an election issue ahead of Election Day on April 28.

Liberal Party leader Mark Carney has said Canada should apply “maximum pressure” to reach an immediate ceasefire while securing the release of captives and resuming humanitarian aid to Gaza.

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has said he would cut funding for UNRWA and crack down on pro-Palestine protests in Canada, which he described as “hate marches”. Echoing Trump, he said non-citizens taking part in those protests would be deported under a Conservative government.

One person has been killed and 20 wounded, including 15 children, by the Israeli bombing of the Abu Shamala family home in Khan Younis.

Medical sources tell Al Jazeera that at least 58 people have been killed by Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn on Friday.

Our colleagues on the ground are reporting that an Israeli air attack has hit the vicinity of as-Sikka Street in the Zeitoun neighbourhood, south of Gaza City.

No casualties have been reported so far. We will bring you more on this attack as soon as we can.

We have been reporting on the US military’s assault on Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen.

Here is a bit of background about the Yemeni group:

• The Houthis, also known as Ansar Allah or “supporters of God”, are an armed group that controls most parts of Yemen, including the capital, Sanaa.
• The group emerged in the 1990s but rose to prominence in 2014, when it seized Sanaa and forced President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi to flee the country.
• In March 2015, a Western-backed coalition intervened in Yemen’s war in support of the Saudi-backed government and launched a punishing air and ground offensive, but failed to defeat the Houthis.
• Yemen and Saudi Arabia are now in peace talks, and a UN-brokered truce has been in effect since April 2022.
• In November 2023, following Israel’s war on Gaza, the Houthis launched attacks on shipping in the Red Sea linked to Israel as a show of support for the Palestinians and Hamas.

Hezbollah “will not let anyone disarm” it, the Lebanese group’s leader Naim Qassem said, as the US presses Lebanon to compel the group to hand over its weapons.

“We will not let anyone disarm Hezbollah or disarm the resistance” against Israel, Qassem said in remarks on a Hezbollah-affiliated TV channel. “We must cut this idea of disarmament from the dictionary.”

Qassem said his group was ready for dialogue on a “defence strategy”, however, “not under the pressure of occupation” by Israel.

Lebanon’s President Joseph Aoun said this week that he wanted “to make 2025 the year of restricting arms to the state”, adding he hoped to achieve that objective through “dialogue” with Hezbollah.

Hezbollah was left weakened by more than a year of hostilities with Israel sparked by its war on Gaza, including an Israeli ground incursion and two months of heavy bombardment.

The fighting was largely brought to an end by a November ceasefire. However, Israeli forces have carried out numerous strikes on Lebanese territory since then.

Let’s bring you up to speed with the latest developments:

• A new US attack has hit Yemen as the death toll in overnight attacks on Ras Isa port has gone up to 80.
• Two people were killed in Israeli attacks targeting cars in southern Lebanon.
• Heavy artillery fire was reported in eastern Gaza City as Israeli forces confront Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups.
• The World Food Programme warns that hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza face an acute risk of hunger amid Israel’s blockade on the enclave.

Turkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused Israel of committing indiscriminate massacres against Palestinians in its war on Gaza.

“In a state of utter madness, the Israeli government is massacring Palestinians without any distinctions,” Erdogan said.

For months, the “global media and human rights advocates have stood by in silence” while journalists and children have been killed, he added.

“More than 7 percent of the population has either been killed or maimed. A total of 212 journalists, who were working to report the truth from the ground, have been executed.”

Furthermore, he accused Western countries of having double standards, saying that “in the slightest incident, they are quick to impose sanctions”.

“But I ask, where are they against Israel?” he added.

The Houthi-affiliated media Al Masirah TV is now reporting three US raids on the Saada governorate in northwest Yemen.

US forces also targeted Bart al-Anan and Khab and Ash-Shaaf districts in al-Jawf governorate with four raids.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says it is responding to “urgent requests by health facilities” in Yemen following US air strikes on the Ras Isa oil port that killed at least 80 people.

“The ICRC has provided medical teams to treat the wounded [and] body bags for dignified management of the dead,” it said.

The agency also called on “all parties to respect and protect civilians, including medics, emergency responders, and civilian infrastructure” in line with international law.

Turkish parliament speaker Numan Kurtulmus has strongly condemned Israel’s actions in Gaza, calling it a “genocide unlike anything modern times have seen”.

“We are witnessing the systematic destruction of an entire people, and the world is largely silent,” Numan Kurtulumus said, adding that Gaza was not anyone’s “private property”.

“Despite the international system’s paralysis, human conscience is rising. Voices for Palestine are echoing across streets, parliaments, and capitals around the world,” he added.