Egypt’s president vows to use ‘any measure’ to defend Saudi Arabia and seeks authorization to deploy troops abroad as battle against Houthis escalates

An airstrike has killed at least nine people in an area of Yemen controlled by Iran-backed Houthi rebels as fighting escalates with Saudi-backed forces.

Meanwhile, the U.S. ambassador to Israel condemned a settler attack on an American journalist that left her needing surgery, in some of the latest violence in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

Here is the latest news from the Middle East on Sunday.

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Airstrike kills at least 9 in rebel-held Yemen An airstrike killed at least nine people, including five children and two women, in Yemen’s northern province of Saada, the Houthi-run Health Ministry said.

Spokesperson Anees al-Asbahi said in a statement the strike hit a house in Sahar district and also wounded 19, including 11 children.

Some were in critical condition, he said.

Al-Asbahi blamed Saudi Arabia for the strike.

There was no immediate comment from the Saudi government.

The fighting has reignited Yemen’s civil war after four years of ceasefire.

US ambassador condemns settler attack on American journalist U.S.

Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee sharply condemned settler violence during an olive harvest in the West Bank that injured several Palestinians and Washington Post photographer Heidi Levine as “a despicable act of terror carried out by masked cowards.” In a post on X, he called for “a full investigation, arrest, and prosecution to the fullest extent of the law to whoever participated in this.” Levine was seriously injured in the attack Friday in the village of Abu Falah.

Israeli police are also investigating an attack by Israeli settlers on European diplomats Saturday in another West Bank village.

Settler violence against Palestinians has soared this year as Israel plans to hold elections Oct.