The Israeli military said Samir Mahmoud Hassan Abu Younis, commander of Hamas's Rafah Brigade, was killed in a strike just after midnight on Saturday. A Hamas statement confirmed his death and said a funeral would be held later on Sunday. The Israeli military said Abu Younis had been working to build up Hamas and directing plans “to advance and carry out terror attacks”. His predecessor was killed in an Israeli strike two months earlier.
Iran's Revolutionary Guard claimed early on Sunday that it struck a radar system at an American helicopter base in Bahrain, the state-run IRNA news agency reported. The development comes after CENTCOM said on Friday that it intercepted two Iranian drones headed toward Bahrain and denied Iran's claim at the time that it had struck a US early-warning radar system there. Bahrain's military said on Sunday that its air defence systems had intercepted a number of Iranian projectiles before they reached their targets. Earlier on Sunday, Bahrain's Interior Ministry issued two nationwide alerts warning of a threat, the first such alerts since September. It did not specify the nature of the threat or say whether anything had been hit. “Iran continues its systematic hostile approach through its sinful attacks targeting the Kingdom of Bahrain,” the statement added. The US military command did not immediately comment on the claim.
Jordan's State Security Court on Sunday sentenced three men to death for a deadly shooting at a Greek Orthodox Church in the city of Karak last month, state-run Al Mamlaka TV said. The men were charged with “carrying out terrorist acts”. The October 23 attack was one of the deadliest on Jordan's Christian minority in decades, with nine people killed and dozens more wounded. The three defendants, identified by authorities as two brothers and their brother-in-law, were arrested three days after the attack following a shootout with security forces. Jordanian authorities described the men as followers of an extremist ideology but said they were not affiliated with an organised group. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
In Yemen, Houthi health officials said an air strike on Sanaa wounded two women and two children. The strike hit a residential neighbourhood in north-eastern Sanaa early on Sunday, the Houthi-run Health Ministry said in a statement, without providing further details. Ministry spokesman Anees al-Asbahi blamed Saudi Arabia for the strike. There was no immediate comment from the kingdom. A Saudi military spokesman said air defence systems intercepted and destroyed two ballistic missiles fired by the Houthis early on Sunday toward Riyadh, and two drones were also shot down over the oil-rich Eastern Region. The air strike in Sanaa and the missile and drone attacks were the latest in a month-long escalation between the Houthis and Saudi Arabia that has seen a return of fighting in Yemen's civil war after more than four years of ceasefire.