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Damaged homes in the Gaza Strip, seen from the Israeli side of the border on Saturday. (Heidi Levine for The Washington Post)

Gaza Health Ministry says 25,000 dead; U.S. prepares for military campaign against Houthis

Updated January 21, 2024 at 10:00 p.m. EST|Published January 21, 2024 at 1:29 a.m. EST
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Gaza’s Health Ministry said the number of people killed in the Strip during this war has passed 25,000, a grim marker that underlines the devastation of the conflict. The Biden administration is planning a sustained military campaign targeting the Houthis in Yemen after several days of strikes failed to halt the rebel group’s attacks on maritime commerce, The Washington Post reported.

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The U.S. military has ended its search for two Navy SEALs lost at sea during a mission to intercept Iranian weapons bound for militants in Yemen, changing their duty status to deceased. After a 10-day search failed to locate the service members, U.S. Central Command said it is shifting to recovery operations rather than a rescue mission.
U.S. troops were being evaluated for traumatic brain injuries after Iranian-linked militants in western Iraq attacked the Ain al-Asad Air Base, U.S. Central Command said. The base’s air defenses intercepted most of the missiles, but others hit the site, Centcom said, as fears of a regional escalation mount.
White House deputy national security adviser Jon Finer called Houthi attacks in the region “illegitimate” on Sunday. He told ABC’s “This Week” that the United States will continue to guard vessels in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, where Iranian-backed Houthi militants have attacked Israeli- and U.S.-linked ships in retaliation for Israel’s war against Hamas, inflicting economic damage.
The Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel is among the most well-documented in history, but a growing group is spreading falsehoods and misleading narratives that minimize the violence or dispute its origins, The Washington Post reports.
At least 25,105 people have been killed in Gaza and 62,681 wounded since the war began, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. Israel estimates that about 1,200 people were killed in Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack.
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The U.S. military has ended its search for two Navy SEALs lost at sea during a mission to intercept Iranian weapons bound for militants in Yemen, changing their duty status to deceased. After a 10-day search failed to locate the service members, U.S. Central Command said it is shifting to recovery operations rather than a rescue mission.
U.S. troops were being evaluated for traumatic brain injuries after Iranian-linked militants in western Iraq attacked the Ain al-Asad Air Base, U.S. Central Command said. The base’s air defenses intercepted most of the missiles, but others hit the site, Centcom said, as fears of a regional escalation mount.
White House deputy national security adviser Jon Finer called Houthi attacks in the region “illegitimate” on Sunday. He told ABC’s “This Week” that the United States will continue to guard vessels in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, where Iranian-backed Houthi militants have attacked Israeli- and U.S.-linked ships in retaliation for Israel’s war against Hamas, inflicting economic damage.
The Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel is among the most well-documented in history, but a growing group is spreading falsehoods and misleading narratives that minimize the violence or dispute its origins, The Washington Post reports.
At least 25,105 people have been killed in Gaza and 62,681 wounded since the war began, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. Israel estimates that about 1,200 people were killed in Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack.
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U.S. naval forces launched three additional strikes against Houthi forces in Yemen on Friday morning, targeting anti-ship missiles, according to National Security Council spokesman John Kirby. In the Gaza Strip, internet and cellphone communications were gradually restored, ending a week-long outage that kept most of the territory’s 2.1 million people cut off, amid a war and humanitarian crisis.

Pakistan launched retaliatory strikes Thursday on militants in Iran, its Foreign Ministry said, as tensions in the Middle East appeared to be spreading.

Oct. 7 attack: Hamas spent more than a year planning its assault on Israel. A Washington Post video analysis shows how Hamas exploited vulnerabilities created by Israel’s reliance on technology at the “Iron Wall,” the security barrier bordering the Gaza Strip, to carry out the deadliest attack in Israel’s history. Stock traders earned millions of dollars anticipating the Hamas attack, a study found.

Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip has a complicated history. Understand what’s behind the Israel-Gaza war and read about the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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