Renewed clashes between Israel and Yemen’s Houthis, and Houthi attacks in the Red Sea, come amid talks over a potential ceasefire in Gaza.

The Houthis then responded with an apparent missile attack on Israel. The Israeli military said that it attempted to intercept the two missiles launched by the Houthis, but they appeared to make impact, though no injuries have been reported. Sirens sounded in the West Bank and along the Dead Sea.

Israel has carried out its first strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen since the Israel-Iran ceasefire, attacking ports and a power plant around midnight local time Sunday night into Monday morning.

The Israeli military said the soldiers were killed during combat in northern Gaza, but offered few other details. Five Israeli soldiers were killed and two others seriously wounded during combat in northern Gaza on Tuesday,

Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli forces killed at least 12 people on Monday, including six in a clinic housing Palestinians displaced after 21 months of war.Civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP that six people were killed and 15 injured in an Israeli air strike that hit the Al-Rimal clinic,