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The US and UK have carried out retaliatory strikes against multiple Houthi sites in Yemen. Here is the latest:

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Latest updates and human impact

Thursday was the first day of hearings at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) regarding the South African genocide case against Israel.
On Friday, Israel will respond at The Hague to the allegations of genocide levelled by South Africa’s lawyers.
United States officials announced that US and United Kingdom militaries used submarine-launched Tomahawk missiles and fighter jets to bomb at least a dozen sites used by Yemen’s Houthi rebel group on Thursday, in a retaliatory attempt.
An Israeli air strike on a residential home killed at least nine Palestinian civilians and injured several others in the Shawka neighbourhood, east of the city of Rafah in southern Gaza, Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.
Local sources say that an Israeli air strike on a vehicle killed at least eight Palestinian civilians on Thursday evening in the Al-Manara neighbourhood of Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, Wafa reported.
An Israeli bomb has killed at least five people after striking a home in the al-Masha’la neighbourhood west of the city of Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, according to the Shehab news agency.
After almost 100 days of war in Gaza, at least 10,000 children – or one percent of the total child population on the Strip – have been killed, according to a new Save The Children report.

A diplomatic source has told Al Jazeera that Russia has sent a message to United Nations Security Council members saying that it considers the use of force in Yemen to be a violation of the UN Charter.
Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani expressed Iran’s condemnation of US and UK attacks on Houthi sites on Friday.
“These attacks are a clear violation of Yemen’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, and a breach of international laws,” he said.
European Union Foreign Affairs High Representative Josep Borrell made an X post on Thursday, criticising statements by Israeli officials calling for the “voluntary displacement” of Palestinians in Gaza.
Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh addressed a gathering at Nelson Mandela Square, Ramallah on Thursday, applauding South Africa for taking legal action against Israel at the ICJ.

Continuing clashes have been reported between Israeli forces and Palestinian groups in the Nur Shams camp east of the city of Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank.
Intense confrontations were also reported between Israeli forces and Palestinians on Thursday when forces surrounded a house following a military raid on the village of Jaba, located to the south of Jenin, Wafa reported.
In the Jaba raid, Israeli forces shot and killed a former prisoner, 37-year-old Majdy Fashafsha, after raiding his house on Thursday, Wafa reported.
Settlers bulldozed a large tract of land belonging to Palestinian residents of Masafer Yatta, located to the south of Hebron on Thursday, Wafa reported.

SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES