Israeli forces killed a top commander of the militant Hamas group in an overnight airstrike on southern Gaza, Israel said on Sunday.
Meanwhile, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard claimed that it struck a radar system at an American helicopter base in Bahrain. The US military command did not immediately comment on the claim.
Jordan 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. And in Yemen, health authorities with the Iran-backed Houthi rebels said an airstrike on Sanaa wounded two women and two children, and blamed Saudi Arabia for the attack, without offering evidence.
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 US military’s Central Command, which oversees American forces in the Middle East, did not immediately comment.
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 Sunday that its air defense systems had intercepted a number of Iranian projectiles before they reached their targets.
Earlier 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.
Israel said it killed a top Hamas commander in an airstrike on southern Gaza. A Hamas statement confirmed the killing of Samir Mahmoud Hassan Abu Younis, commander of the group’s Rafah Brigade, and said a funeral would be held for him later in the day.
The Israeli military said Abu Younis was killed in a strike just after midnight Saturday. It said he had been working to build up Hamas and directing plans “to advance and carry out terror attacks.” Two months earlier, his predecessor was also killed in an Israeli strike.
The military said it targeted other Hamas militants in Sunday’s strike but provided no additional details.
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 Oct. 23 attack was one of the deadliest on Jordan’s Christian minority in decades, with nine people killed and dozens more wounded.