UN employee released in wake of Israeli strikes in Yemen, Jordan says

A United Nations employee was released from detention by Houthi rebels in Yemen's capital city and was on her way home to Jordan, the Jordanian foreign ministry said on Thursday.

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tries, that Israel has become a regional menace. That isolation likely brings some solace to Hamas' embattled members inside Gaza, where the government it has run since seizing power in 2007 has mostly collapsed and its security forces have melted away.

Israel says it now controls 75% of the territory, much of which has been reduced to fields of rubble, and has vowed to take the rest. Hamas is largely confined to the same enclaves where much of Gaza's population of some 2 million Palestinians have sought refuge.