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A missile attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on a commercial ship in the Gulf of Aden killed two of its crew members and forced survivors to abandon the vessel on Wednesday.

The Belize-flagged Rubymar had been drifting northward after being struck by a Houthi anti-ship ballistic missile on Feb. 18.

The Middle East had braced for potential Iranian retaliation over a suspected Israeli strike earlier this month on an Iranian consular building in Syria that killed 12 people.

Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control targeted 16 people and two entities in Iran that produce engines that power the drones used in the April 13 attack on Israel.

Former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett says Israel has fought Iran's proxies, including Hamas, for years, calling the strike on Iran's embassy in Syria justified.

An apparent Israeli drone attack on Iran saw troops fire air defences at a major air base and a nuclear site early Friday morning near the central city of Isfahan.

Israel remained on high alert Monday, but authorities lifted some emergency measures that had included a ban on some school activities and caps on large gatherings.

Germany, a staunch ally of Israel, has been among the chorus of European and U.S. leaders urging Israel to de-escalate tensions and not retaliate for Tehran’s attack.

Many countries are bouncing back from the COVID-19 pandemic, but the poorest are not and a significant number are seeing their conditions deteriorate, the UN says.

The strikes followed the official announcement that the U.S. has put the Houthis back on its list of specially designated global terrorists.

Former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett says Israel is being held to a double standard not shown to others during times of war, which he said is rooted in antisemitism.

The U.S. launched a third round of airstrikes on Houthi targets in Yemen, officials said Tuesday, as the Iran-backed rebel group continues to target vessels in the Red Sea.

Israel has been on heightened alert since an airstrike last week killed two Iranian generals in Syria.

The three British citizens, a Polish citizen, an Australian and a Canadian American dual citizen worked for World Central Kitchen, an international charity.

The former U.S. special envoy for Middle East peace says the apparent effectiveness of the strikes in Yemen will allow Washington to focus elsewhere in the MIddle East.

Strikes against Houthi by the United States and the United Kingdom in Yemen are the 'consequences' of the militant group’s attacks in the Red Sea, Canada says.

The U.S. military's "follow-on" airstrike Saturday was on another Houthi-controlled site that it had determined was putting commercial vessels in the Red Sea at risk.

Britain and the U.S. began launching airstrikes on Houthi positions in Yemen in a massive response to escalating attacks on vessels in the Red Sea, U.S. President Joe Biden said.

The Iran-allied Houthi group has threatened to expand its targets to include U.S. ships in response to American and British strikes on its sites in Yemen.

Increasing tension in the Middle East after a U.S. led coalition strikes Houthi targets in Yemen. Plus, emergency departments are overwhelmed again this winter.