The Health and Population Office in Yemen's Marib province announced that more than 600 suspected cases of cholera have been recorded since the beginning of this year, 2023. The office said in a report that the number of suspected cases of cholera has reached 609 cases since the inception of 2023. The health officials in Marib stressed the need for more efforts by health sector partners to limit the spread of cholera. Moreover, the Health Office in Shabwah province told the media that there is an outbreak of cholera in the camps of African migrants coming to Yemen. The office said that 48 cases of cholera had been recorded.
Robert Greenway, who orchestrated former President Donald Trump's sanctions against Iran, told The Daily Signal Wednesday that there is "zero chance" Iran was not involved in the Houthi missile strike. "They are even more directly involved in Yemen" than they are in Gaza supporting Hamas, Greenway, director of The Heritage Foundation's Center for National Defense, explained. Referring to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force(Iran's military intelligence arm outside Iran), Greenway said,"Kill the IRGC QF commander in Yemen and arm the Saudis and Emiratis to clean it up".
The UN estimated that the Tej Cyclone impacted over 10,000 households in the al-Mahra, Hadramawt, and Socotra governorates. Local authorities announced the restoration of electricity and communications, and the reopening of roads allowed teams to assess the impact of the cyclone better. The cyclone arrived in Yemen on October 24.
The Israeli military has deployed missile boats in the Red Sea as reinforcements, a day after the Iran-aligned Houthi movement said it had launched missile and drone attacks on Israel and vowed to carry out more. The Houthi movement said on Tuesday they had launched three drone and missile attacks towards Israel since the start of the recent war on October 7. It vowed there would be more such attacks to come "to help the Palestinians to victory". In what appeared to be a new attack overnight, the Israeli military said it had intercepted an "aerial threat" over the Red Sea.
Ambulances carrying seriously injured Palestinians have crossed from Gaza into Egypt for the first time since the war between Israel and Hamas began, media reports said on Wednesday. Rafah is expected to continue opening for a limited time to allow foreign passport holders and injured civilians to leave. According to the BBC, there are about 7,000 dual nationals in Gaza.Israel has been bombarding Gaza for more than three weeks, and Gaza's health ministry says more than 8,700 people have been killed in the territory since October 7.
