Events marking four months since the start of the war were held in Jerusalem, London, Paris and elsewhere on Wednesday. The conflict began on October 7 when Hamas-led militants crossed the border into Israeli border communities in a killing spree that killed 1,200 people. Hours later the militants fled to Gaza with more than 240 hostages, more than 100 of whom were freed during a week-long ceasefire in November. More than 27,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel's disastrous military effort to free hostages and remove Hamas from power.
Yemen experts say the Houthis are a political movement, not a military force And A religious group. They have been fighting a civil war in Yemen since 2014 against an emerging government backed militarily by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and – presumably, through arms supplies – the US and Britain.
