January 15, 2024 Israel-Hamas war

The Houthis have claimed responsibility for an attack carried out on an American vessel in the Gulf of Aden on Monday.

The Yemeni militant group "carried out a military operation targeting an American ship in the Gulf of Aden, with a number of appropriate naval missiles," Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree announced in a live video statement on Monday, adding that the hits were "accurate and direct."

The United States Central Command said in a statement earlier that the ship in question, the M/V Gibraltar Eagle, sustained minor damage and did not report any injuries.

The Houthis promised that any future strikes on Yemen will not go unanswered.

At least one person — a woman in her 70s — has been killed, and 17 others injured after twin attacks in the central Israeli city of Raanana, according to statements released by the hospitals treating the victims of the attack. 

The Israeli police said two suspects in the two simultaneous terror attacks were residents of Hebron. Hebron is a city in the occupied West Bank. The police said they entered Israel illegally and are now in police custody. 

Hamas weighed in on the attacks, describing them as a "natural response to the occupation’s massacres and its continued aggression against our Palestinian people.”

Here are today's other headlines:

This post has been updated with additional developments.

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres delivered remarks on Monday to mark 100 days since the October 7 attacks and the ensuing Israel-Hamas war.

Guterres didn't hold back on renouncing the horrific Hamas attacks, the unprecedented civilian casualties and catastrophic humanitarian conditions in Gaza since Israel launched war on Hamas, the taking of and the fate of the hostages in Gaza and the tensions spilling over across the region. 

He said the only solution is an immediate humanitarian ceasefire and demanded the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages in Gaza. The UN Secretary General also called for all accounts of sexual violence committed by Hamas and others on October 7 to be rigorously investigated and prosecuted. 

He went on to add that the "onslaught on Gaza by Israeli forces over these 100 days has unleashed wholesale destruction and levels of civilian killings at a rate that is unprecedented during my years as Secretary-General." He added, "Nothing can justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people."  

"The longer the conflict in Gaza continues, the greater the risk of escalation and miscalculation. We cannot see in Lebanon what we are seeing in Gaza. And we cannot allow what has been happening in Gaza to continue," Guterres finished his speech by saying.

In an update, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said its latest air raids killed two terrorists in Khan Younis, and that it struck two weapon storage facilities, alongside “Hamas operational infrastructure” in the area.

The IDF said that it confiscated extensive Hamas weaponry, including AK-47 rifles, handguns, grenades, RPGs, and diving gear. 

In northern Gaza, the IDF said it killed five terrorists who attempted to locate weapons in an area where Israeli forces had been operating. 

At least 132 people were killed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip in the last 24 hours, and 252 others wounded, the Hamas-run Ministry of Health said Monday, putting the number of people killed there since October 7 at over 24,000.

CNN cannot independently confirm the numbers due to the difficulty of reporting from the war zone. 

The IDF said Sunday that more than 9,000 of the dead were Hamas fighters. CNN also cannot confirm that figure. 

UK-based maritime security group Ambrey has said that a total of three missiles were launched toward the Red Sea on Monday. The group said two of the three missiles did not reach the sea and the third one impacted a US-owned and operated vessel. 

The M/V Gibraltar Eagle, a Marshall Islands-flagged bulk carrier owned and operated by US-based Eagle Bulk, sustained minor damage and did not report any injuries when a Houthi anti-ship ballistic missile struck the vessel, the US Central Command said. The ship is continuing on its way. 

“The vessel arrived in the Gulf of Aden after the industry and military advice to avoid the southern Red Sea and Bab el-Mandeb Strait,” Ambrey said.   

A statement from Eagle Bulk Shipping on Monday confirmed that the Gibraltar Eagle, which is carrying a cargo of steel products, was hit “by an unidentified projectile” roughly 100 miles offshore in the Gulf of Aden.

The Houthis have not officially claimed responsibility for the Monday attack on the ship. 

CNN’s Oren Liebermann and Haley Britzky contributed reporting to this post.

Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish — the first Palestinian doctor to hold a staff position at an Israeli hospital — has spent the last few days in Cairo, comforting his brother who is mourning the loss of three of his children killed in Gaza by an Israeli airstrike.

“Even if he could get back,” Abuelaish says of his brother who left Gaza for Egypt in September for health reasons, “he doesn’t have anything to go back to.”

It’s a sorrow Abuelaish knows painfully well. In 2009, he shot to fame after describing live on Israel’s Channel 10 TV the horror of discovering three of his own daughters — aged 21, 15 and 13 — and his 17-year-old niece, killed after an Israeli tank strike on their home in Gaza.

For weeks, Abuelaish had been delivering regular updates to Israeli television in his fluent Hebrew on the intense Israel-Hamas fighting happening in Gaza at the end of 2008/start of 2009.

Then on January 16, he called his friend and Channel 10 reporter Shlomi Eldar, who put his message on speakerphone, live on TV. That moment shook the presenters — and Israeli audiences — to the core.

Read more about how Abuelaish used his grief to advocate for equality and peace.

A Houthi anti-ship ballistic missile struck a US-owned and operated vessel on Monday, US Central Command said in a statement.

The M/V Gibraltar Eagle, a Marshall Islands-flagged bulk carrier owned and operated by US-based Eagle Bulk, sustained minor damage and did not report any injuries, Central Command said. The ship is continuing on its way.

The military did not give a specific location for the attack, but the UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said it received a report of the incident approximately 95 nautical miles southeast of Aden.

Earlier in the day, the Houthis attempted to launch an anti-ship ballistic missile that failed in flight and crashed in Yemen, Central Command said.  

An elderly woman was killed and 17 others were injured in Monday’s twin attacks in the central Israeli city of Raanana, according to statements released by the hospitals treating the victims of the attack. 

The Israeli Police said two suspects in the two simultaneous terror attacks were residents of Hebron. Hebron is a city in the occupied West Bank. The police said they entered Israel illegally and are now in police custody. 

The suspects stole vehicles to run over a number of people in several locations, the police said, adding that sweeps are still being conducted in the area to ensure there are no further threats. 

This post has been updated with additional information.

Hamas has issued a statement praising the twin terror attacks in the central Israeli city of Raanana that killed one person and injured 17 others earlier on Monday. 

Hamas said the attacks were “a natural response to the occupation’s massacres and its continued aggression against our Palestinian people.”

The Israel Police said two suspects from Hebron were arrested shortly after the attacks. The police said the suspects were related to each other. 

Correction: An earlier version of this post reported Hamas claimed responsibility for the attacks. The group praised the attacks but did not directly claim responsibility for them.