A bomb explosion in the southern Yemeni city of Aden killed two people and injured three civilians on Friday, a local security said. The official said that an improvised explosive device was attached to the official vehicle of Colonel Ahmed Almarhaby, a military official of the Southern Transitional Council, and detonated in Aden's Daar Saad district. Almarhaby was not inside the car during the explosion, but his son and one of his guards were killed in the blast. Three civilians were also injured in the blast. No group has claimed responsibility for the bombing so far.
Yemen's Houthi group on Saturday claimed an attack a day earlier on an oil tanker in the Red Sea, the latest in a series of strikes which have led to retaliation by Britain and the United States. The Houthis said the vessel was British. The US military later said it was Danish. Houthi naval forces "carried out an operation targeting the British oil tanker Pollux in the Red Sea" with missiles, Houthi spokesman Yahya Saree said in a statement. The US Central Command (CENTCOM) confirmed that four anti-ship ballistic missiles were launched from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen, between Friday afternoon and 1:00 am (2200 GMT) on Saturday. The strike came on the same day that Washington's redesignation of the Houthis as a terrorist group and accompanying sanctions came into force.
A US Navy official has said that members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) are on the ground in Yemen “serving side-by-side” with Houthis and providing assistance to the group that has targeted commercial ships in the Red Sea. Vice Admiral Brad Cooper, deputy commander of US Central Command, told CBS News told CBS News, "The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps is inside Yemen, and they are serving side by side with the Houthis, advising them and providing target information.” According to Cooper, the Iranians are providing the Houthis with target information.
Hamas threatened Saturday to suspend ceasefire talks unless urgent aid was brought into the north of the Gaza Strip, where aid agencies have warned of a looming famine.
“The movement intends to suspend negotiations until aid is brought into northern Gaza,” a senior source in the Palestinian militant group told AFP. “Negotiations cannot be held while hunger is ravaging the Palestinian people,” he said, asking not to be identified as he is not authorized to speak on the issue. Talks have been held in the Egyptian capital Cairo this week to bring about a pause in fighting in Israel’s four-month-old war with Hamas in Gaza. Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 28,858 people, mostly women and children, according to the territory’s health ministry.
