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HAPPENING NOW: The IDF announced it has launched a wave of airstrikes against Hamas targets in southern Gaza in response to an earlier attack on Israeli troops. A military source said one of the targets is a tunnel system previously used by Hamas to hold Israeli hostages.
Iranian-backed Houthi rebels detained two dozen U.N. employees Sunday, a day after they raided another U.N. facility in the capital Sanaa, a U.N. official said. Jean Alam, a spokesman for the U.N. resident coordinator for Yemen, told The Associated Press that the U.N. staffers were detained inside the facility in Sanaa’s southwestern neighborhood of Hada. He said those detained Sunday include five Yemenis and 15 international staff. He said the rebels released another 11 U.N. staffers after questioning. He said the U.N. was contact with the Houthis and other parties to “to resolve this serious situation as swiftly as possible, end the detention of all personnel, and restore full control over its facilities in Sanaa.” A second U.N. official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the raid, said the rebels confiscated all communications equipment from the facility, including phones, servers and computers. The official said the detained employees belong to multiple U.N. agencies including the World Food Program, UNICEF and the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. The Houthis have launched a long-running crackdown against the U.N. and other international organizations working in rebel-held areas in Yemen including Sanaa, the coastal city of Hodeida and the rebel stronghold in Sadaa province in northern Yemen. Dozens of people, including over 50 U.N. staffers, have been detained so far. A World Food Program worker died in detention earlier this year in Sadaa. The rebels have repeatedly alleged without evidence that the detained U.N. staffers and those working with other international groups and foreign embassies were spies. The U.N. fiercely denied the accusations. The crackdown forced the U.N. to suspend its operations in Saada province in northern Yemen following the detention of eight staffers in January. The U.N. also relocated its top humanitarian coordinator in Yemen from Sanaa to the coastal city of Aden, which serves as seat for the internationally recognized government. (AP)
Iranian-backed Houthi terrorists detained about two dozen U.N. employees in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, on Sunday, a day after raiding another U.N. facility, according to U.N. officials. The detainees include both Yemeni and international staff from several agencies, including the World Food Program and UNICEF. The Houthis also confiscated phones and computers from the compound.
President Donald Trump announced Sunday that the U.S. will cut all funding to Colombia, accusing President Gustavo Petro of failing to curb drug production and calling him “an illegal drug dealer.” Writing on Truth Social from Mar-a-Lago, Trump said Petro “does nothing to stop” the drug trade and warned that if Colombia doesn’t act, “the United States will close them up for him.”
Iran has executed a man convicted of spying for Israel’s Mossad, according to the country’s judiciary. The execution took place Saturday in the city of Qom after Iran’s Supreme Court upheld the death sentence and denied a pardon request. Authorities said the defendant began cooperating with Israeli intelligence in October 2023, providing sensitive information and carrying out missions inside Iran before being arrested in February 2024.
Brutal front page from the NY Post after NYC mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani was photographed campaigning with an imam who is an unindicted co-conspirator of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and who has called for “jihad” in American cities.
A private defense contractor claims it was behind the wave of “UFO” sightings across New Jersey. The company demonstrated a 20-foot, four-winged manned aircraft with unusual flight movements and later told observers that its test flights over New Jersey in November 2024 sparked the reports of mysterious objects in the sky. The contractor said it was operating under a private government contract and was not required to disclose the tests.
Trump on Hamas: “These are very violent people. This is a very violent part of the world… If we have to, we’ll disarm them… We won’t have boots on the ground — there’s no reason to.”
Q “Is there a timeline to get Hamas to disarm, in your mind?” TRUMP: “Not a hard line, but we’re going to see how it all works out. They’ve lived there for a long time. They’re very violent… it’s a whole new set of people. They get replaced by other people — young people… at a certain point, if they don’t do what they’re supposed to do, then we’ll have to do it for them.”
Today, an Air China flight from Hangzhou to Incheon was forced to make an emergency landing in Shanghai after a lithium battery in a passenger’s overhead bag exploded and caught fire. The fire was quickly extinguished, and the aircraft landed safely with no injuries reported. Flight tracking shows the plane turning around over the East China Sea before returning to Shanghai.
Hamas says it has located the body of one more hostage, which it said will be returned to Israel today if “conditions on the ground are appropriate”. “We will transfer the body today if the conditions on the ground are suitable,” it says, adding that “any Zionist escalation will complicate the search and digging operations and the recovery of the bodies, which will lead to a delay in the occupation’s receipt of the bodies.”
BORO PARK: A fire erupted early this morning at approximately 7:15 a.m. inside an apartment building near 12th Avenue and 54th Street. Residents, including several children, were rescued through the fire escape as the blaze quickly drew a large emergency response. Boro Park and Flatbush Hatzolah, the FDNY, NYPD, and Boro Park Shomrim all responded to the scene. Sources tell YWN that approximately 27 individuals were transported to local hospitals for evaluation due to smoke inhalation. Thankfully, all have since been discharged.
The IDF has issued an urgent warning to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip to avoid entering areas under Israeli control and to stay away from Israeli troops. Col. Avichay Adraee, the IDF’s Arabic-language spokesperson, stated that “in the wake of repeated violations of the ceasefire and this morning’s attack by Hamas terror elements, the IDF will respond with great force against terror infrastructure and Hamas operatives.” He emphasized that for their safety, residents should remain on the west side of the Yellow Line, attaching a map showing the areas in Gaza currently under IDF control.
BREAKING: A senior U.S. official has confirmed to Axios that Israel alerted the U.S. ahead of planned Gaza strikes in response to Hamas’s ceasefire violations.
