The Times of Israel is liveblogging Wednesday’s events as they unfold.
Flights to and from Yemen’s Sanaa airport suspended following Israeli attack, director says
All flights to and from Yemen’s Sanaa International Airport have been suspended until further notice due to extensive damage following Israeli strike, the airport’s general director says in a post on X.
The Israeli military carried out an airstrike on Yemen’s main airport in Sanaa on Tuesday, its second attack in two days on Iran-aligned Houthi rebels after a surge in tensions between the group and Israel.
Indian army says three civilians killed by Pakistani artillery fire
India’s army says that three civilians had been killed overnight by artillery fired by Pakistan’s army along their de facto Line of Control border with contested Kashmir.
“During the night of May 06-07… Pakistan Army resorted to arbitrary firing including artillery shelling from posts across the Line of Control and IB (international border) opposite Jammu and Kashmir”, the army says in a statement.
“Three innocent civilians lost their lives in indiscriminate firing/shelling,” it adds, saying that the Indian army is “responding in proportionate manner.”
Death toll from Indian strikes on Pakistan jumps to 8 civilians
The death toll from Indian strikes on Pakistan has increased to eight, the country’s military spokesman says, as India fired missiles at Pakistani territory and Islamabad vowed to “settle the score.”
“In total in at six locations there were 24 impacts in Pakistan. In these 24 impacts eight Pakistanis have been martyred and 35 have been injured and two are missing,” Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry says, adding one 3-year-old girl is killed in a mosque in Punjab province.
Hamas-linked Gaza rescuers say 9 killed in new Israeli strike on school sheltering displaced
Gaza’s Hamas-linked civil defense agency says that nine people were killed in a fresh Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced people in the center of the war-ravaged Palestinian territory.
“Nine dead and dozens of injuries in a new airstrike that targeted the northern side of Abu Humeisa School, which shelters displaced people in Al-Bureij camp,” Ahmad Radwan, a media officer from the Hamas-linked Gaza civil defense, tells AFP after rescuers said an earlier Israeli strike on the same site killed 22.
The IDF has yet to comment on the latest strike but has long insisted that it takes precautions to avoid civilian casualties.
Blackstone president to donate $125 million to Tel Aviv University’s medical school — NYT
The president of the Blackstone investment firm will donate $125 million to Tel Aviv University’s health science and medical school, The New York Times reports.
The donation from Jonathan and Mindy Gray’s family foundation is the largest ever to TAU and will allow for enrollment in the medical school to increase by a quarter, amid a shortage in Israeli doctors, The Times says.