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Monday’s strike on a Norwegian tanker was the militia’s latest flex on the fringes of the Israel-Hamas war. Once a scrappy tribal group, the Houthis now hold what analysts say are higher aspirations.

The remains of Eden Zakaria, 27, and Master Sgt. Ziv Dado, 36, were repatriated to Israel, officials said.

A missile hit a tanker in one of the first successful strikes on a ship by the Iranian-backed Houthi militia in Yemen, which has vowed to target vessels in protest of Israel’s assault on Gaza.

Even Gazans who can get access to Israeli directions online say they sometimes make no sense, which could be a matter of life or death.

Top Israeli officials hinted at a powerful response to attacks by Hezbollah across the northern border with Lebanon, as to the south Israeli troops wage street battles against Hamas in Gaza.

An Israeli official said skirmishes on the border with the Iran-backed Hezbollah militia needed to end, but it wasn’t clear how Israel would achieve that objective.

The European Union and Sweden have called for the immediate release of Johan Floderus, who has been detained in Tehran for about 600 days.

The fighting has intensified in the south, with tens of thousands of Gazans fleeing to the border with Egypt, where the U.N. has warned that the humanitarian situation may collapse.

President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt grew increasingly unpopular amid a deep economic crisis. But the war in neighboring Gaza has given him a vital role on the international stage.

Fighting in Khan Younis, the southern city where Israel believes Hamas’s leaders are hiding, has intensified, the Israeli military said.