The Times of Israel is liveblogging Sunday’s events as they unfold.

A ballistic missile launched by the Houthis in Yemen at Israel a short while ago was intercepted by air defenses, the military says.

There are no immediate reports of impacts or injuries. Sirens had sounded in central Israel and in several southern West Bank settlements.

The Houthis, an Iran-backed terror group, have repeatedly attacked Israel with ballistic missiles and drones, saying they are doing so in support of Gaza amid Israel’s war there against Hamas.

Sirens sound in central Israel and in several southern West Bank settlements following the launch of a ballistic missile from Yemen.

The IDF says it is working to shoot down the projectile.

A ballistic missile has been launched from Yemen at Israel, the military says.

Sirens are expected to sound in central Israel in the coming minutes.

Eliya Cohen and his fiancée welcome the news that the IDF eliminated the Hamas terrorist who abducted Cohen from a roadside bomb shelter and took him as a hostage to Gaza during the group’s October 7, 2023, attack.

“Wow, I think I’m the happiest person in the world right now,” says Cohen’s fiancée Ziv Aboud, in a story posted to Instagram.

“The one who abducted Eliya from the shelter, who pulled him out from among all the dead bodies, and loaded him into the pickup truck like he was a sack of potatoes, and was there on the truck to Gaza — the IDF took him down,” she says.

Aboud pans the camera to Cohen, and asks what he has to say about it. He thanks God, and says more terrorists are “next in line.”

The military and Shin Bet announced earlier today that Hassan Mahmoud Hassan Hussein, a commander for the terror group’s elite Nukhba force, was killed in a recent airstrike in the Gaza Strip.

Hussein, alongside another Nukhba force commander, Muhammad Abu Attawi, led the attack on a bomb shelter near Re’im where partygoers from the Nova music festival had fled to.

Four people, including Cohen, were taken hostage alive from the shelter and 16 were murdered. Seven managed to survive and were later rescued.

An IDF soldier was killed in today’s car-ramming attack in the West Bank, the military announces.

The slain troop is named as Staff Sgt. Inbar Avraham Kav, 20, of the Paratroopers........

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