Middle East conflict live updates: U.S. and Britain strike Houthi sites in Yemen

The Yemen attack targeted 13 locations “associated with the Houthis’ deeply buried” storage facilities and weaponry, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said. It comes after the United States’ strikes on more than 85 targets in Iraq and Syria in retaliation for the killing of three U.S. troops in Jordan — a response President Biden said will continue “at times and places of our choosing.”

In an unusual showing of coordinated dissent, officials working in the United States, the European Union and 11 other countries signed a letter condemning their governments’ support for Israel’s war, which they said has “resulted in tens of thousands of preventable civilian deaths.”

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell expressed concern for Palestinian civilians in southern Gaza, saying they have been “displaced progressively against the Egyptian border,” after Israel announced that it planned to shift the focus of its military offensive to the city of Rafah — one of the last refuges in the Strip.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said that one of its staff members and a number of civilians were killed in Israeli gunfire at its headquarters in Khan Younis. The Israel Defense Forces did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected to leave Sunday for a five-day trip to the Middle East, with planned stops in Saudi Arabia, Egypt Qatar, Israel and the West Bank.

At least 27,238 people have been killed and 66,452 injured in the Gaza Strip since the war began, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. Israel estimates that about 1,200 people were killed in Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack.