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Families taking refuge in al-Shifa Hospital say situation is unbearable - no clean water, electricity, and sanitation.

MANAMA: A Bahraini soldier has died days after an attack by Yemen’s Houthi militia on Saudi Arabia’s southern border, the military has announced. The Bahrain Defense Force said the officer, Maj. Mohammed Salem Mohammed Anber, died on Wednesday, just days after the Monday attack.

More than half a million displaced Palestinians are sheltering in 150 UNRWA facilities and in poor conditions.

The group needs time to locate captives taken to Gaza by various Palestinian factions, a Russian newspaper is told.

The US military launched airstrikes early Friday on two locations in eastern Syria linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Pentagon said, in retaliation for a slew of drone and missile attacks against US bases and personnel in the region that began early last week.

In one of the areas set up for displaced Palestinians in Khan Younis, volunteer cooks aim to feed 500 people daily.

BEIRUT: Lebanese firefighters on Thursday were struggling to contain a series of night fires believed to have been started by Israeli phosphorus shells fired into forests and orchards near the country’s southern border. Residents of the border town of Aita Al-Shaab urged UN peacekeeping forces, Lebanese troops and Civil Defense personnel to join in efforts to extinguish fires that have ravaged nearby farming land. Eyewitnesses said the fires detonated land mines and cluster bombs left behind by Israeli bombardments.