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Morning update
18 April 2025 05:25 BST
Good morning Middle East Eye readers,
Here are some of the latest updates from Israel's war on Gaza:
- At least 13 people from the same family have been killed in an Israeli shelling on their house in the town of Beni Suheila, located east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, in the early hours of Friday.
- The Israeli army said its defence system has intercepted a missile which was launched from Yemen towards Israeli territory.
- Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, saying that more work needs to be done with international partners to exert “maximum pressure” to end Israel’s long blockade on humanitarian aid.
- The death toll for the US military attack on Ras Isa’s port in Yemen’s Hodeida government has climbed to 38, with 102 wounded.
- The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that food supplies in Gaza are running critically low, and that it may not be able to assist the more than one million people it has helped over the past months.
- Faculty members at Harvard University are staging a protest against US President Donald Trump’s threats to withdraw funds and tax-exempt status from the institution if it does not meet the demands to provide information on foreign students enrolled there.