Israel Air Force jets struck Hezbollah military structures in the areas of Jebel Razlan, Ramyeh, and Kfarkela in southern Lebanon overnight Friday, the IDF announced. Israel Air Force jets target Hezbollah infrastructure in Ramyeh, June 7, 2024. (credit: IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Houthi security forces have detained at least 15 Yemeni employees of international organizations including the United Nations, three officials of Yemen's internationally recognized government told Reuters on Friday.In a series of raids on Thursday, armed Houthi intelligence officers detained nine UN employees, three employees of the US-funded pro-democracy group National Democratic Institute (NDI) and three employees of a local human rights group, the officials said.Intelligence officers of the Houthi group, which controls the capital Sanaa and large parts of the north of the country, raided the homes and offices of these people, confiscating phones and computers.The detained UN employees work for the human rights office and the office for humanitarian affairs, said the officials, from the internationally recognized government that controls mostly southern parts of Yemen.Neither the UN office nor NDI immediately responded to a Reuters request for confirmation or comment. A Houthi spokesperson did not immediately comment.

A large fire broke out on Friday evening in an industrial hangar on Eliyahu Eitan Street in Rishon Lezion, which contains plastic and packaging products.According to reports, 16 firefighting teams were dispatched to the scene and were operating in three different sectors, attempting to prevent the fire from spreading to nearby buildings.Simultaneously, searches were conducted to locate any trapped people.

The New York Police Department announced on Monday that it was offering a bounty on information about a suspect involved in the hitting of a victim with a rock, stealing his Israeli flag, and setting it on fire.A 22-year-old male was assaulted in Manhattan on April 20 after one suspect grabbed the victim's Israeli flag. When the victim followed the perpetrator into a crowd, a second suspect threw and struck him in the face with a rock, causing minor injuries. A third suspect set the flag on fire.Brooklyn resident James Carlson, 40, was arrested on May 1 for criminal mischief, arson, and criminal possession of stolen property.Police offered on Monday up to $3,500 for information on the suspect believed to be the person who set the flag on fire. The NYPD described him as 20-30 years old with a light complexion.The NYPD said that the incident was being investigated as a hate crime assault by the Hate Crime Task Force.Suspect involved in the hitting of a victim with a rock, stealing his Israeli flag, and setting it on fire. (credit: NYPD)

A merchant vessel reported that an explosion took place near it in the Red Sea on Thursday about 19 nautical miles west of the Yemeni port city of Mokha, British security firm Ambrey said.The vessel fit the target profile of Yemeni Houthi militants, who have attacked ships off the country's coast for several months, Ambrey said in a note.It was en route from Europe to the United Arab Emirates and was not transmitting an Automatic Identification System signal at the time, Ambrey said. It gave no other details.Houthis have made repeated drone and missile strikes on ships in the crucial shipping channels of the Red Sea, the Bab al-Mandab Strait and the Gulf of Aden since November.This has forced shippers to re-route cargo to longer and more expensive journeys around southern Africa and has stoked fears that the Israel-Hamas war could spread and destabilize the Middle East.