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Airstrike kills 3 children in Yemen, and other Middle East developments · Best of: Features

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  Diplomats attacked in the occupied West Bank.
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  And other Middle East developments. This article is being read by an
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  automated voice generated by Everlett. Israeli police say the are investigating
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  an attack
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  on diplomats in the occupied West Bank. Meanwhile, an airstrike in Yemen
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  killed three children and wounded others. Iranian backed Houthi rebels blamed Saudi
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  Arabia for the attack. Here is the latest news from the Middle
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  East on Saturday. Read our full coverage here. Israeli police probe attack
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  on diplomats in West Bank. Israeli police say they have opened an
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  investigation into an alleged assault on diplomats in the occupied West Bank.
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  Their statement cites footage circulating online that appears to show several diplomats
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  being attacked in the village of Taibay. Public broadcaster Khan reported that
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  the diplomats included representatives from France, Belgium, and Poland. In a separate
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  statement, Israel
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  military said the visit had not been coordinated with it, and no
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  soldiers were at the scene. Violence by Jewish settlers against Palestinians has
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  surged during the annual olive harvest. Activists say authorities do little to
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  stop it. An attacked.
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  On Friday seriously injured several people, including a Washington Post photographer. The
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  Israeli police condemns violence of any kind and will work to complete
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  these investigations until everyone who took part in these cases is brought
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  to justice, the police statement said. Police said they had contacted Israel's
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  foreign ministry to help locate those who were attacked. Secretary of State
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  Marco Rubio said Saturday that he was very disturbed by footage of
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  an attack on Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine by Israeli settlers in
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  the West Bank. We're very disturbed by those images and what we're
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  seeing, he said, adding that the Trump administration has asked the Israeli
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  government to crack down on that stuff. Iranian
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  backed Houthi rebels say airstrikes from Saudi Arabia killed three children in
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  Yemen's southwestern province of Damar. The Houthi Run Health Ministry said the
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  strikes the day before hit houses in Alar village in Daran Anes
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  district, also wounding more than a dozen people. The Houthis blamed Saudi
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  Arabia for the strike, which comes amid heightened fighting between the group
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  and the kingdom and its Yemeni allies. Saudi Arabia didn't immediately comment.
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  The children are among one hundred and twenty four people, the Houthis
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  say, have been killed in their territories since fighting resumed in September,
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  according to the ministry. Journalist beaten by West Bank settlers undergoes surgery.
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  Washington Post photographer Heidi Levine was undergoing surgery on her finger, which
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  was nearly detached from her hand after she was beaten by settlers
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  in the West Bank. Her daughter said Ashley Milner told the Associated
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  Press that Levine also has a broken rib and multiple broken vertebrae
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  as well as lacerations. Levine said the perpetrators, armed with bottles and
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  slingshots, were kicking me for like ten minutes and I was trying
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  to hold on to my cameras and my bag. She said her
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  helmet and protective vest, marked press, likely saved her from more serious
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  injuries. Two ships attacked in the Persian Gulf. The United Kingdom Maritime
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  Trade Operation said two vessels transiting through the Persian Gulf off Saudi
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  Arabia were struck Friday. One tanker was fired upon from a saw
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  small boat with an RPG that damaged part of its rear, and
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  the other was struck by an unknown projectile, it said. The UKMTO
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  monitor did not identify the vessels but said the crews were safe.
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  No one claimed the strikes. There has been an uptick in attacks
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  since US President Donald Trump late last month rejected a Tehran proposal
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  to end the war and open the Strait, though indirect negotiations have
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  continued. On Saturday, Iran State Broadcaster cited the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
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  as saying a super tanker carrying crude oil struck a naval mine
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  and caught fire in the Strait of Hormuz. It was unclear when
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  the incident occurred. Separately, a skiff carrying armed men opened fire on
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  a tanker carrying liquefied natural gas in the Arabian Sea off Yemen,
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  UKem T reported. There were no reports of casualties, no group claimed
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  responsibility. Egypt pledges to defend Saudi Arabia. Egyptian President Abdelfatah
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  el Sisi said his government will implement any measure to defend its
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  ally Saudi Arabia amid increasing attacks by the Iranian backed Houthis in
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  Yemen. Addressing King Salmazan and Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman, El
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  Sisi said his country would do what it takes to defend them.
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  He said that if needed he would convene Parliament for an emergency
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  session to authorize such measures. Israeli strikes across Gaza kill four people.
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  Israeli strikes killed four people across Gaza, according to hospital officials. One
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  strike killed two people, and wounded several others east of Gaza City,
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  according to Shifa Hospital. Another killed a fourteen year old boy in
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  the central city of Dir al Balah, according to Al Aksa Hospital,
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  and the third killed one person in the southern city of Rafah,
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  according to the Red Cross Field Hospital. Israel's army said it struck
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  Hamas and Islamic Jihad military operatives in those areas, but did not
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  immediately respond to the strike in Rafah. They attacks came more than
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  a year after a ceasefire deal was reached between Israel and Hamas,
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  during which Israel continued to launch deadly strikes on the enclave. Two
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  killed when Saudi helicopter gunship crashes. A Saudi helicopter gunship crashed in
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  southwestern Saudi Arabia, killing its two member crew, the Saudi led coalition
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  fighting against Yemeni Houthi rebels said Sunday. Coalition spokesman Major General Turkey
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  al Maliki said in a statement the AH six and helicopter crashed
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  in the city of Najran due to technical malfunction. The coalition statement
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  came hours after Iranian backed Houthis claimed in a statement that they
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  shot down a Saudi Apache over Najran while conducting hostile activities toward
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  the Houthi fighters on the border with Saudi Arabia. Al Malki apparently
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  mocked the Houthi claim in a post on X. Attaching a screenshot
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  of the Houthi military spokesman's statement with images of a Chi six
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  one helicopters, the Saudi officer said the gunship has yet to join
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  the war. This report will be updated throughout the day as new
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  developments emerge.