European leaders and aid groups have criticised Israeli plans to take over distribution of humanitarian aid in Gaza and use private companies to get food to families after two months in which the military has prevented supplies entering the Strip.

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli plan to seize the Gaza Strip and expand the military operation has alarmed many in the region. Palestinians are exhausted and hopeless, pummeled by 19 months of heavy bombing. Families of Israeli hostages still being held in Gaza are terrified that the possibility of a ceasefire is slipping further away.

The IDF said the attack on Yemen’s main airport in Sanaa was in retaliation for a missile strike by Houthi militants that hit near Israel’s international airport Sunday.

Tuesday’s Israeli attack followed large-scale strikes on Monday from 20 Israeli warplanes that targeted Yemen’s Hodeidah port complex on the Red Sea, as well as a nearby concrete factory. The IDF claimed these were important sources of income for the Iran-backed Yemeni militant group,

Some global airlines have again halted their flights to and from Tel Aviv after a missile fired by Yemen's Houthi rebels towards Israel on Sunday landed near the country's main international airport.