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A recap of today’s developments
Here’s a quick look at the latest news:
- An Israeli attack on Gaza City’s Zeitoun area killed at least six people, Wafa reported. Another attack on the Sheikh Radwan area killed four.
- The first phase of the polio vaccination campaign has ended in Gaza, according to the UN. However, “the spread of many other diseases remains a threat”, it said.
- Israeli forces are conducting raids across the occupied West Bank, with clashes with Palestinian fighters reported in some areas.
- According to Israeli Army Radio, an investigation by the Air Force has determined that attempts to intercept the missile launched by the Houthis towards Israel failed because “the missile was not completely destroyed in the air as required”.
- An Israeli border police officer was stabbed by a Palestinian citizen of Israel near the Old City’s Damascus Gate in occupied East Jerusalem.
- The Israeli army says there is a “high probability” that an Israeli air raid in November last year was responsible for the deaths of three people held captive in Gaza.
- 15 Sep 2024 - 23:20(23:20 GMT)
Israeli forces raid Sarra in occupied West Bank
The raid on the Palestinian town, southwest of Nablus, has led to clashes with local Palestinians, according to Wafa.
There are no reports of injuries.
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- 15 Sep 2024 - 22:40(22:40 GMT)
Houthis likely used ballistic missile in attack on Israel
The dispute over whether the Houthis used a ballistic or hypersonic missile in their attack on Israel on Sunday is significant, according to David Des Roches, a professor at the National Defense University in Washington, DC.
“The Houthis, Iran, Russia, China, North Korea, have all claimed to have developed hypersonic missiles. The standard for that is that it goes very fast … and that it can manoeuvre,” Des Roches told Al Jazeera.
“The speed itself is actually pretty easy to achieve. Most ballistic missiles have that ability, and this missile probably travelled fast, but the manoeuvrability is hard.”
If it were a true hypersonic, it would be very difficult to intercept, he added.
“This was intercepted. So I think what you have is the classic parabola trajectory of a ballistic missile, where instead of being intercepted up high, it was intercepted close to the objective.”
The missile was likely an Iranian one “with a Houthi paint job on it”, he said.
“What we don’t know is, in the past, they’ve imported missiles in shipping containers that were cut into sections and welded them together. It could have been imported in sections.”
- 15 Sep 2024 - 22:20(22:20 GMT)
Israeli attack in Gaza City’s Zeitoun kills six
That’s according to the Wafa news agency, which says the information came from medical sources.
The dead include two children.
The air attack hit a home in the district, which lies in the southeast of Gaza City.
- 15 Sep 2024 - 22:00(22:00 GMT)
Israeli attacks on Sunday kill at least 20 in Gaza
That includes the four killed in the attack in Sheikh Radwan, in Gaza City.
A reminder that more than 41,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s war on Gaza since October.
- 15 Sep 2024 - 21:41(21:41 GMT)
First phase of polio vaccine campaign ends, threat of other diseases high: UN
The first phase of the polio vaccination campaign has ended in Gaza, according to the UN.
However, “the spread of many other diseases remains a threat amid unsanitary conditions”, the international body warned in a social media post.
“Piles of trash keep growing & sewage floods the streets. Greater access to aid for clean water & hygiene supplies is urgent.”
- 15 Sep 2024 - 21:20(21:20 GMT)
WATCH: Israeli Air Force investigates Houthi missile incident
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Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claim attack in Balata
The Palestinian armed group’s branch in Nablus says it has attacked an Israeli armoured vehicle with an explosive device.
The group says the attack led to Israeli injuries.
There is currently no confirmation from the Israeli side.
- 15 Sep 2024 - 20:45(20:45 GMT)
CENTCOM claims to destroy missile system in Yemen
US Central Command (US CENTCOM) said that its forces destroyed a missile system in a Houthi-controlled area of Yemen.
“It was determined this system presented a clear and imminent threat to U.S. and coalition forces, and merchant vessels in the region,” CENTCOM said in a post on X.
The Houthi rebels have been targeting what they claim are Israel-linked vessels – an effort that they say aims to pressure the Israeli government to end the war in Gaza, which has killed more than 41,100 Palestinians.
The Yemeni group also started attacking ships linked to the US and UK after the two countries launched a military campaign in January to end the Houthis’ assaults on shipping lanes in the region.
Sept 15 U.S. Central Command Update
In the past 24 hours, U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM) forces successfully destroyed one missile system in a Houthi-controlled area of Yemen.
It was determined this system presented a clear and imminent threat to U.S. and coalition forces,… pic.twitter.com/4Y12cWrP8S
— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) September 15, 2024
- 15 Sep 2024 - 20:30(20:30 GMT)
Death toll rises in Israeli attack on house in Gaza City
The Palestinian Civil Defence has said that four people have now been confirmed dead, including a woman, in an Israeli air raid that targeted a house in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood, north of Gaza City.
Mahmoud Bassal, a spokesperson for the Palestinian Civil Defence, said there are ongoing efforts to find two missing children amidst the rubble of the house, which belongs to the Bahloul family.
- 15 Sep 2024 - 20:15(20:15 GMT)
Stabbing assailant shot dead: Israeli police
We’ve been reporting about a stabbing attack near the Damascus Gate in occupied East Jerusalem, and we now have confirmation that the alleged assailant was shot dead by an Israeli border police officer.
Palestinian media reported that the assailant was a Palestinian citizen of Israel. Police have not identified him.
- 15 Sep 2024 - 20:00(20:00 GMT)
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- 15 Sep 2024 - 19:45(19:45 GMT)
Israeli authorities force Palestinian family to demolish own home
Israeli authorities have forced the Elayyan family to demolish their own home in Beit Safafa, in occupied East Jerusalem, Wafa reports.
The Israeli municipality ruled the house must be destroyed because it was built without permits, which are notoriously difficult for Palestinians to obtain. Ahmed Elayyan lived in the house with four other family members.
Since October 7, more than 307 houses have been demolished in East Jerusalem, according to a report by Palestinian authorities.
The home demolitions have been repeatedly criticised by human rights organisations, and Palestinians cite them as evidence of the injustice they face at the hands of the Israeli occupation.
- 15 Sep 2024 - 19:30(19:30 GMT)
Fighting in Balata refugee camp after Israeli raid
The sound of clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinian fighters can be heard in footage from Balata verified by Al Jazeera.
The refugee camp, which is in Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank, has repeatedly been targeted by Israeli forces.
- 15 Sep 2024 - 19:15(19:15 GMT)
Israeli air raid on Gaza City house kills at least three
The Palestinian Civil Defence has said that three people were killed, including a woman, when an Israeli air raid targeted a house in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood, north of Gaza City.
Mahmoud Bassal, a spokesperson for the Palestinian Civil Defence, said that efforts are under way to find two missing children amidst the rubble of the house, which belongs to the Bahloul family.
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Israeli soldiers injured in Golan Heights attack
The Israeli military says that several soldiers were lightly injured in a Hezbollah drone attack on Sunday evening.
The attack, carried out using two drones, took place in the northern Golan Heights, which is occupied Syrian territory.
- 15 Sep 2024 - 18:45(18:45 GMT)
Israeli stabbed in occupied East Jerusalem is policeman
There is more information now on the stabbing incident reported earlier in occupied East Jerusalem.
The Israeli police have now said that an Israeli border police officer was stabbed.
The incident took place near the Old City’s Damascus Gate and the officer was evacuated for medical treatment, police said, citing medical sources.
Police said they “neutralised” the assailant, but did not specify their identity or condition.
- 15 Sep 2024 - 18:30(18:30 GMT)
‘It’s either you are with the captives or with the government’
The discovery today that the Israeli military may have killed three Israeli captives in Gaza last year will not change Netanyahu’s priorities, according to Akiva Eldar, an Israeli political analyst and author.
“For him, this is a kind of, I’m sorry to say, collateral damage, as well as the 40,000 Palestinians that were killed, as well as the price that Israel is paying in the international arena,” Eldar told Al Jazeera from Le Havre, France.
“He knows that as long as the Israeli soldiers are in the combat field in Gaza, there will be Israeli fatalities. As long as the Israeli Air Force is bombing Gaza, the bombs cannot tell who is a captive and who is Hamas,” he added.
The captives, in fact, are a nuisance for Netanyahu, according to the analyst.
“What [Netanyahu] does best is divide and rule. This is what he’s been doing for the last 15 years, and he keeps doing this,” said Eldar, adding that the Israeli leader’s allies are the ones making arrests of protesters.
“It’s either you are with the captives or with the government.”
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- Several Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on family home in Sheikh Radwan and Zeitoun neighbourhoods of Gaza City.
- The Israeli army says there is a “high probability” an Israeli air raid in November last year was responsible for the deaths of three people held captive in Gaza.
- A missile fired by Yemen’s Houthi rebels lands deep inside Israel, triggering air raid sirens in Tel Aviv and across central Israel.
- Israel’s military ordered Palestinians to leave parts of Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza as the Palestinian Foreign Ministry warned that the evacuations were a “prelude to the annexation of Gaza” for “settlement purposes”.
- At least 41,206 people have been killed and 95,337 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza. In Israel, the number of those killed in the Hamas-led attacks on October 7 is at least 1,139, while more than 200 people were taken captive.