Two Palestinians carried out coordinated car-rammings in central Israel on Monday, killing a woman and injuring 12 other people, police and medical officials said, as tensions soared over the more than three-month-old war in the Gaza Strip.

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Police described the incident in Raanana, north of Tel Aviv, as a terrorist attack and said two suspects were under arrest. The two are from the same family in Hebron, a city in the occupied West Bank, and entered Israel illegally, police said.

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“They went out together and in parallel, to two different locations, took two cars and launched a series of rammings,” central district police chief Avi Biton told reporters in Raanana, a city north of Tel Aviv where the incident took place.

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There was no immediate claim of responsibility, Reuters reported.

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At least one of the vehicles had been stolen, police said earlier.

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Israeli TV showed scattered personal items on a pavement and said several children were among the injured.

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Reuters is reporting that a Palestinian man stole a car and rammed people in central Israel on Monday, injuring at least 13, police said, adding that the suspect was in custody and his motivations were being investigated.

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Israeli media said some people may have also been stabbed in the incident in Raanana, north of Tel Aviv, which came amid heightened security tensions over the more than three-month-old war with Hamas militants in Gaza.

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“This was apparently a suspected terrorist ramming attack,” police said in a statement. It said the suspect was from the city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank.

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The injured were taken to hospitals for treatment, it said.

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Citing witnesses in an earlier report, Army Radio said the incident may have been a car-jacking during which the stolen vehicle crashed.

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Attacks on ships headed to Israel will continue, the chief negotiator for Yemen’s Houthis says, adding that the group’s position has not changed since US-led air strikes on Yemen. Reuters quotes Mohammed Abdulsalam as saying:

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Attacks to prevent Israeli ships or those heading to the ports of the occupied Palestine will continue.

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He adds that the group’s demands are still for an end of the Israeli offensive in Gaza, and allowing humanitarian aid to the north and south of the strip.

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Local medical services say 14 people were wounded in the car-ramming incident, which took place at three separate locations, according to the Times of Israel.

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Citing the Magen David Adom (MDA) ambulance service, the paper reports that the victims include a woman in her 70s in critical condition and a man aged 34 and a 16-year-old in serious condition. It says a further 11 people suffered lesser injuries.

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The MDA director-general, Eli Bin, told the paper 17 people were treated at the scene, “which may include those suffering from acute anxiety”. Police are investigating, but their spokesman Eli Levy tells the Times of Israel it “increasingly looks like a terrorist incident”.

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Eight people have been struck by a vehicle in the central Israeli city of Raanana on Monday, Israeli paramedics said. “We arrived in large numbers on scene and started triaging some eight casualties in varying conditions,” Israeli EMT Eli Raymond.

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Britain’s “decisive” action in the Red Sea “dealt a blow” to the Houthis, the UK’s defence secretary has said.

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In his first major speech, Grant Shapps said “enough was enough” and precision strikes were authorised in response to Houthi attacks because they “chose to ignore” clear warnings.

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He said:

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The result is that the Houthis have been dealt a blow.

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Our decisive response in the Red Sea and our uplift in support for Ukraine offers a direct blueprint for how the UK must continue to lead in the future, offering our unwavering support to our allies in times of struggle, galvanising global response to any malign actors seeking to break rules-based international order and acting decisively when the moment calls for us to defend ourselves, deter and lead.

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Britain will “wait and see” before deciding to launch fresh military strikes against the Iran-aligned Houthis in Yemen in order to protect international shipping, the British defence secretary, Grant Shapps, said on Monday.

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“Let’s wait and see what happens, because it’s not that we want to be involved in action in the Red Sea. But ultimately freedom of navigation is an international right,” Shapps told Sky News, when asked if Britain would carry out more strikes.

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The British prime minister, Rishi Sunak, will address members of the UK parliament on Monday for the first time since the UK and US carried out strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen.

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Sunak authorised the missile attacks without consulting parliament, which he is authorised to do, however convention usually means that British politicians are given the chance to discuss military action in advance.

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After the strikes, Sunak said the Houthis had been “risking lives at sea” and were “causing major disruption to a vital trade route”. He also called the strikes “limited” but “necessary” to protect commercial shipping and lives.

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The pro-Hamas Houthis have said they are targeting ships linked to Israel in the Red Sea despite some having no clear connection. It has meant shipping companies diverting vessels via a longer route around southern Africa.

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This is the first time Sunak has agreed to military action since becoming prime minister in October 2002. His foreign secretary, David Cameron, said on Sunday “operational security” made it necessary to proceed without a vote. Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn called the decision “utterly disgraceful that parliament has not even been consulted”.

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The White House has said “it’s the right time” for Israel to scale back its military offensive in the Gaza Strip, as Israeli leaders again vowed to press ahead with their offensive against Hamas.

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The comments exposed the growing differences between the close allies on the 100th day of the war on Sunday, Associated Press reports.

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The White House national security council spokesman, John Kirby, told the US network CBS that the US had been speaking to Israel “about a transition to low-intensity operations” in Gaza.

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We believe it’s the right time for that transition. And we’re talking to them about doing that.

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The comments came a day after the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said in a televised address on Saturday that the war against Hamas would continue “until the end, until total victory”.

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We are continuing the war … until we achieve all of our goals: eliminating Hamas, returning all of our hostages and ensuring that Gaza will never again constitute a threat to Israel.

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The war has sent tensions soaring across the region, with Israel trading fire almost daily with Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group while Iranian-backed militias attack US targets in Syria and Iraq. In addition, Yemen’s Houthi rebels have been targeting international shipping, drawing airstrikes from the US and the UK.

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Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, said his group would not stop until a ceasefire was in place for Gaza.

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Australia’s foreign minister called for a “sustainable ceasefire” in Gaza as she left on Monday for a Middle East tour that includes a visit to the occupied West Bank and meetings with the families of Israeli hostages.

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Penny Wong said she would use the visits to Jordan, Israel, the West Bank and the United Arab Emirates to advocate for a pathway out of the current conflict and a lasting peace in the form of a two-state solution, Reuters reports.

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Australia would also use its voice to push for more humanitarian assistance, greater protection of civilians and a de-escalation of regional tensions, she added.

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Our position is that we want to see a sustainable ceasefire and that we see an international humanitarian, immediate humanitarian ceasefire as a step towards that.

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No ceasefire can be one sided and no ceasefire can be unconditional.

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Australia backed a UN resolution for a Gaza ceasefire in December in a rare split with its ally the US.

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Wong said in a statement that Australia supported Israel’s right to defend itself in response to “terrorism” but “the way it does so matters”. She also called for the unconditional release of all hostages held by Hamas.

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The midair interception is the latest incident in the Red Sea where the Houthis have been attacking international shipping in what they say is a campaign to support Palestinians under siege from Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip, Reuters reports.

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It follows a series of American and British airstrikes on Houthi targets in Yemen that have drawn threats of a “strong” response from the Iran-backed militia, adding to anxieties over a wider conflict in the Middle East beyond Gaza.

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There were no injuries or damage reported in the latest incident, according to the US Central Command (Centcom), which released the news in a statement on X (formerly Twitter).

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Centcom said the missile was shot down near Yemen’s port city of Hodeidah.

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Earlier on Sunday, the Houthis complained that US aircraft were observed flying close to Yemeni airspace and coastal areas.

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Houthi spokesperson Mohammed Abdulsalam described the activity by “enemy” aircraft as a blatant violation of national sovereignty.

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Reuters could not immediately determine whether the incidents were one and the same. Centcom did not immediately respond to a request for further details about the interception.

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Welcome to our live coverage of the Middle East crisis – I’m Adam Fulton and here’s the latest news.

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A US fighter aircraft shot down an anti-ship cruise missile that was fired from Iran-backed Houthi militant areas of Yemen towards the USS Laboon in the southern Red Sea, the US Central Command said on Sunday.

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There were no injuries or damage reported, it said.

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More on that soon. In other key developments:

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• Three gunmen who crossed into Israel from Lebanon and two Israelis were killed in clashes and a strike along the frontier between the two countries on Sunday, the army and medics said. Five soldiers were wounded in the firefight with the gunmen, the Israeli military said. Earlier, an Israeli man was pronounced dead and a woman, who the local municipality said was his mother, died later after a missile strike in the Israeli border community of Kfar Yuval that reportedly wounded multiple Israelis.

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• A total of 23,968 Palestinians have been killed and another 60,582 injured by Israeli strikes on Gaza since 7 October, the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza said on Sunday. In the past 24 hours, 125 Palestinians were killed and 265 were injured, the ministry added.

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• Arab-Israeli legislator Ahmad Tibi said on social media that three of his relatives, including a 10-year-old boy, had been killed in a strike on Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.

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• Hamas has aired video footage showing three Israeli hostages it is holding in Gaza in which they urged Israel’s government to stop its offensive against the militant group and bring about their release, as both sides marked the 100th day of the war. The undated 37-second video of the three captives – aged 26, 53 and 38 – aired on Sunday ended with the chyron: “Tomorrow we will inform you of their fate.”

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• Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said Israel had “failed” in Gaza and would be forced to negotiate. He made the remarks in a televised address on Sunday.

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• Bangladesh has voiced its support for South Africa in its genocide case against Israel at the international court of justice. Bangladesh “welcomes the opportunity to file a declaration of intervention in the proceedings in due course”, its ministry of foreign affairs said. Namibia, meanwhile, rejected what it called Germany’s support of the “genocidal intent of the racist Israeli state against innocent civilians in Gaza”. The Namibian presidency pointed to Germany’s “inability to draw lessons from its horrific history”, citing the 20th century’s first genocide – the Herero-Namaqua genocide perpetrated by German forces on Namibian soil from 1904-08.

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• The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has called the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza caused by Israeli attacks across the strip, which have displacing nearly 2 million Palestinians, one of the world’s “most complex and challenging” operations. In a tweet on Sunday following 100 days of Israel’s war on Gaza, the UNRWA said: “The massive destruction, displacement, hunger and loss of last 100 days are staining our shared humanity.”

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• The World Health Organisation (WHO) and its partners have visited al-Aqsa hospital in central Gaza and Nasser medical complex in Khan Younis, southern Gaza. WHO chief Tedros Ghebreyesus said on X (formerly Twitter) that both hospitals require “sustained support and protection to remain operational” and that they were “vital lifelines for patients and thousands of displaced people in Gaza”.

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• The Palestine Red Crescent Society has set up shelter tents for 315 displaced Palestinian families in the Mawasi Rafah area near the Egyptian border.

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• An Israeli footballer who displayed a message referring to the Israel-Gaza war during a match in Turkey has been arrested, according to reports in Turkish media. Earlier on Sunday, the country’s justice minister announced an investigation into Sagiv Jehezkel over the incident for suspected “incitement to hate”, after his club, Antalyaspor, sacked him over the matter. Jehezkel scored a goal for his team and then displayed a message reading “100 days. 07/10” on a bandage on his wrist.

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The US cannot call for restraint while supporting Israel’s war in Gaza, Iran’s foreign minister said on Monday, while calling for a diplomatic solution to the war in the enclave.

Hossein Amirabdollahian, in a televised joint press conference with his Indian counterpart in Tehran, called on US officials “not to tie the security and national interests of the US to the fate of Israel’s prime minister who is falling”.

The Islamic Republic backs Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in its war with Israel and Tehran accuses the United States of backing what it calls Israeli crimes in Gaza, Reuters reported.

Amirabdollahian said Iran-aligned Houthi militias would continue their attacks in the Red Sea “as long as the genocide in the Gaza war continues”.

“Senior officials in Yemen’s Sanaa [Houthi leaders] told us that as long as the genocide in the Gaza war continues, they will take action to prevent the movement of Israeli ships or ships heading to Tel Aviv,” he said.

However, Amirabdollahian added that the Houthis had assured Tehran that “they will not create any disruption in maritime security”.

At least 13 injured after man steals car and rams people in Israeli city of Raanana

Reuters is reporting that a Palestinian man stole a car and rammed people in central Israel on Monday, injuring at least 13, police said, adding that the suspect was in custody and his motivations were being investigated.

Israeli media said some people may have also been stabbed in the incident in Raanana, north of Tel Aviv, which came amid heightened security tensions over the more than three-month-old war with Hamas militants in Gaza.

“This was apparently a suspected terrorist ramming attack,” police said in a statement. It said the suspect was from the city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank.

The injured were taken to hospitals for treatment, it said.

Citing witnesses in an earlier report, Army Radio said the incident may have been a car-jacking during which the stolen vehicle crashed.

According to Reuters, which cites local media, the number of people injured in the stabbing and car-ramming incident in Raanana has now reached 19. One is critically injured, the news agency says, adding that residents had been instructed to stay off the streets.

Citing witnesses, Army Radio said the incident may have been a car-jacking during which the stolen vehicle crashed. The incident came amid heightened security tensions over the war. Eli Levy, the police spokesperson, tells Army Radio:

We still cannot declare with certainty that this was a terrorist attack.

He said he it was also unclear how many people had been involved in the incident, leaving open the possibility that suspects were still at large.

‘Strikes on Red Sea shipping will continue’, warn militants

Attacks on ships headed to Israel will continue, the chief negotiator for Yemen’s Houthis says, adding that the group’s position has not changed since US-led air strikes on Yemen. Reuters quotes Mohammed Abdulsalam as saying:

Attacks to prevent Israeli ships or those heading to the ports of the occupied Palestine will continue.

He adds that the group’s demands are still for an end of the Israeli offensive in Gaza, and allowing humanitarian aid to the north and south of the strip.

Fourteen injured in car-ramming – reports

Local medical services say 14 people were wounded in the car-ramming incident, which took place at three separate locations, according to the Times of Israel.

Citing the Magen David Adom (MDA) ambulance service, the paper reports that the victims include a woman in her 70s in critical condition and a man aged 34 and a 16-year-old in serious condition. It says a further 11 people suffered lesser injuries.

The MDA director-general, Eli Bin, told the paper 17 people were treated at the scene, “which may include those suffering from acute anxiety”. Police are investigating, but their spokesman Eli Levy tells the Times of Israel it “increasingly looks like a terrorist incident”.

Eight people struck by vehicle in Israeli city of Raanana

Eight people have been struck by a vehicle in the central Israeli city of Raanana on Monday, Israeli paramedics said. “We arrived in large numbers on scene and started triaging some eight casualties in varying conditions,” Israeli EMT Eli Raymond.

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Russia’s foreign and defence ministers Sergei Lavrov and Sergei Shoigu held telephone calls with their Iranian counterparts on Monday, Russian state news agency RIA reported.

Russia and Iran have drawn close in recent months, and Iran has provided Russia with weaponry to be used in Ukraine. The two sides have also criticised Israeli actions in the Gaza Strip.

Jason Burke

A new round of negotiations to obtain the release of Israeli hostages held in Gaza by Hamas has made incremental progress, sources close to the talks say, signalling the end to months of deadlock and raising hopes among relatives as the war passes its 100th day.

New details emerged in recent days of a deal to allow medicine – such as vital prescription drugs – to reach the hostages, along with an increase in humanitarian aid into Gaza.

On Friday, the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office confirmed the agreement, which should come into effect this week. Negotiators are currently discussing how to deliver the medications and aid with Israel and Hamas.

About 250 hostages were seized by Hamas during their unprecedented attack in southern Israel on 7 October, according to Israeli figures. At least 130 remain in captivity.

The families of hostages are campaigning for the Israeli government to ramp up efforts to get them freed, saying the captives were in poor health, some with complex illnesses, others with injuries. Some families gathered in an area near the Gaza border in recent days to broadcast messages of support to their loved ones using loudspeakers.