In a separate attack, an Israeli drone strike near the hospital’s entrance killed one civilian, WAFA news agency reported. Meanwhile, rescue teams in Gaza City’s Al-Zaytoun neighborhood recovered the bodies of four Palestinians trapped under the rubble of a home destroyed in an Israeli airstrike last night.

The violence in Tartous province marks the deadliest challenge yet to the Islamist-led authorities which swept Bashar al-Assad from power.

The fall of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad earlier in December has set millions of Yemenis thinking about what lies in store for their own country. Some say the fall of the Iran-allied Houthis in Yemen – who control Sanaa and much of northern and western Yemen – may be the “next surprise” in the region.

Israel's military said it struck multiple targets linked to the Iran-aligned Houthi movement in Yemen on Thursday, including Sana’a International Airport and three ports along the western coast.

Yemenis have openly declared their support for Palestine’s struggle against the Israeli occupation since the regime launched its devastating war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, which has so far claimed the lives of at least 45,361 Palestinians, mostly women and children.

Dr H.A. Hellyer, senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute discussed the fate of Christians in the new leadership of Syria.

Houthi underlined that the American occupation in Syria focuses on oil resources, engaging in blatant and open looting of Syrian oil, adding that the “Israeli” enemy destroyed Syria’s military capabilities in the largest air aggression since the establishment of the occupying entity.

“CENTCOM forces conducted the deliberate strikes to disrupt and degrade Houthi operations, such as attacks against U.S. Navy warships and merchant vessels in the Southern Red Sea, Bab al-Mandeb, and Gulf of Aden,” CENTCOM said.

America had lost its nerve. Various international mechanisms had failed. Aleppo had fallen. Meanwhile, more Syrians were hauled off to prison, more kids were murdered, more people starved. The Assads, with the aid of Russia’s president and the supreme leader of Iran, had won. And their war continued to grind on.

The air assault, Israel’s fourth in Yemen over the past year, comes a week after Israeli fighter jets flew more than 1,000 miles to bomb sites in the country, including in Sana and on the port city of Salif. The Israeli military said it had struck infrastructure like power plants, as well as fuel and oil tanks.

Israeli airstrikes on Gaza have claimed the lives of at least 13 Palestinians, including two paramedics and five journalists, since morning