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Pakistani strike comes day after deadly Iranian attack on Balochistan; US military in Red Sea says it struck 14 Houthi missiles that were ready to be fired
Pakistan has launched retaliatory strikes against militants in Iran, in an apparent response to attacks by Tehran two days ago targeting sites within Pakistan’s borders belonging to a Sunni separatist militant group.
Pakistan had already condemned Tuesday’s attacks, which killed and injured at least six people, as “illegal” and had warned Tehran of “serious consequences”. Pakistan also downgraded its diplomatic relations with Iran, recalling its ambassador from Tehran and expelled the Iranian envoy in Islamabad
At least 24,448 Palestinians have been killed and 61,504 wounded in Israeli strikes on Gaza since the war began on 7 October, according to the latest figures by the territory’s health ministry on Wednesday. Another 355 Palestinians, including 90 children, have been killed by Israeli forces and settlers in the occupied West Bank.
Eleven people including two children were killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, Palestinian officials and the UN said. The UN agency OCHA said six people were killed, including two children, in an airstrike on Tulkarem refugee camp. A separate Israeli airstrike near Balata refugee camp, east of the city of Nablus, killed five fighters with the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, the armed wing of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas’s Fatah party, it said.
There were fears that Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, the largest hospital still partially functioning in Gaza, may be forced to close due to Israeli attacks. The aid agency Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) said overnight to Wednesday Israeli forces had “heavily bombed the area close to the hospital with no prior evacuation order, causing patients and many of the thousands of displaced civilians, who had sought refuge in Nasser, to flee in a panic.”
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