ADEN: A suspected Al-Qaeda suicide bomber killed three Yemeni soldiers and wounded nine others in an attack Tuesday on an army position in the country’s south, military officials said.
The assailant used an explosives-rigged car to target the troops loyal to President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi who had recently set up the position in the town of Loder in Abyan province in their fight against the militants, the officials said.
Yemeni special forces, trained by the UAE and backed by the US, on Wednesday launched a major operation against the Al-Qaeda fighters, driving them out of Shabwa province.
Meanwhile, the Saudi-led coalition denied on Tuesday that it had targeted a home, after a health official alleged that nine civilians were killed in an airstrike.
Three women and six children were killed on Friday in the northwestern Saada province in an airstrike on their home, the head of the local health department, Dr. Abdel Ilah Al-Azzi, said.
“Col. Turki Al-Malki, official spokesman for the coalition to support legitimacy in Yemen, denied that coalition forces targeted a house in the Muhaddah area southwest of Saada,” it said in a statement posted on the Saudi Press Agency (SPA).
Al-Malki said the coalition was coordinating with its allies in Yemen’s government to investigate the incident and accused the Houthi movement of using civilian infrastructure to store weapons.
Al-Qaeda bomber kills 3 Yemen soldiers
Al-Qaeda bomber kills 3 Yemen soldiers
Israel’s hostage forum releases AI-generated video of last Gaza captive
- The Gaza ceasefire, which came into effect in October, remains fragile with both sides alleging violations, and mediators fearing that Israel and Hamas alike are stalling
JERUSALEM: An Israeli group representing the families of Gaza hostages released on Tuesday an AI-generated video of Ran Gvili, the last captive whose body is still being held in the Palestinian territory.
The one-minute clip, created whole cloth using artificial intelligence, purports to depict Gvili as he sits in a Gaza tunnel and appeals to US President Donald Trump to help bring his body back to Israel.
“Mr President, I’m asking you to see this through: Please bring me home. My family deserves this. I deserve the right to be buried with honor in the land I fought for,” says the AI-generated image of Gvili.
Gvili was 24 at the time of Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack on Israel.
He was an officer in Israel’s Yasam elite police unit and was on medical leave when he learnt of the attack.
He decided to leave his home and brought his gun to counter the Hamas militants.
He was shot in the fighting at the Alumim kibbutz before he was taken to Gaza.
Israeli authorities told Gvili’s parents in January 2024 that he had not survived his injuries.
The AI clip was released by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum, the main group representing those taken captive to Gaza.
The Forum said it was published with the approval of Gvili’s family.
“Seeing and hearing Rani speak in his own voice is both moving and heartbreaking. I would give anything to hear, see and hold him again,” Gvili’s mother Talik said, quoted by the Forum.
“But all I can do now is plead that they don’t move to the next phase of the agreement before bringing Rani home — because we don’t leave heroes behind.”
The Gaza ceasefire, which came into effect in October, remains fragile with both sides alleging violations, and mediators fearing that Israel and Hamas alike are stalling.
In the first stage, Palestinian militants were expected to return all of the remaining 48 living and dead hostages held in Gaza.
Since the ceasefire came into effect on October 10, militants have released 47 hostages.
In the next stages of the truce, Israel is supposed to withdraw from its positions in Gaza, an interim authority is to govern the Palestinian territory instead of Hamas, and an international stabilization force is to be deployed.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to meet Trump in Florida later this month to discuss the second phase of the deal.
