Despite U.S-led strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen, the Iran-backed rebels vowed today their attacks on ships moving through the Red Sea will continue.

"We will continue to prevent Israeli ships or those heading to the occupied Palestinian ports until the aggression and siege on Gaza stops," the Houthis' official spokesman, Mohammed Abdulsalam, said today in a statement.

"Navigation is safe in the Arab and Red Bahrain and Bab al-Mandab, except for Israeli ships or those heading to occupied Palestinian ports," he added.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi condemned the U.S.-led strikes in Yemen, the state news agency IRNA reported, saying they were indicative of Washington's "aggressive" nature.

The strikes were "rejected and condemned by the freedom-seeking nations of the world," he was quoted as saying yesterday.

Last week, the U.S and Britain jointly struck Houthi targets in Yemen, which came after weeks of attacks by the Iranian-backed rebels on ships in the Red Sea.

TEL AVIV — As the Israel-Hamas war reaches 100 days, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is vowing to increase its military pressure and keep fighting. Meanwhile, Hamas is marking the grim milestone by releasing a disturbing new video showing three of the hostages who are still held in Gaza. 

Last week's U.S. and British strikes in Yemen "dealt a blow" to the Iran-backed Houthi rebels, British Defense Minister Grant Shapps said in a speech today.

"Houthis have persistently violated the law by menacing commercial vessels in the region," he said in a speech in London, referring to the attacks on ships in the Red Sea.

"We could not have been clearer with our warnings, which they chose to ignore," he said. "And enough was enough."

At least 14 people have been injured in the city of Raanana in central Israel today after a vehicle struck pedestrians, according to the country's emergency services.

Medics were treating a 70-year-old woman in critical condition, two men in serious condition with head and limb injuries, eight in moderate condition and three in mild condition, according to the Magen David Adom emergency services.

A spokesperson for the Israeli police said it had arrested a Hebron resident, who had stolen the vehicle in a "suspected hit-and-run attack."

Two Navy SEALs are missing after falling into rough, nighttime seas while raiding a small ship off the coast of Somalia, two U.S. defense officials told NBC News.

The SEALs were trying to climb into a type of small boat known as a dhow Thursday night when one of them fell in amid the rough seas, the defense officials said, speaking anonymously to give details of the incident. A second sailor jumped in to rescue the first, as protocol dictates, and both disappeared into the darkness, the officials said.

The sailors were not part of the international mission to protect shipping from attacks by Yemen’s Houthis in the Red Sea, which the Gulf of Aden leads into. However, in recent years, the U.S. and allies have conducted regular missions to intercept weapons on ships suspected of supplying the Iran-backed Houthis.

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Warning of a growing risk of famine in the Gaza Strip, three major U.N. agencies today called for an urgent "fundamental step change" in the flow of humanitarian aid to the besieged enclave.

"Without the ability to produce or import food, the entire population of Gaza relies on aid to survive," read the joint statement from the World Food Programme, the United Nations Children’s Fund and the World Health Organization.

Delivery of aid is severely limited by the closure of border crossings, as well as the "multi-layered vetting process" for trucks through the ones that remain open, the agencies said, with the aid trucks also facing the potential danger of Israeli bombardments once they reach Gaza. They called for the opening of new routes for aid, most notably the port of Ashdod, north of Gaza.

"Famine will make an already terrible situation catastrophic because sick people are more likely to succumb to starvation and starving people are more vulnerable to disease,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.

TEL AVIV — Israel has accused Turkey of "serving as the executive arm of Hamas" following the detention of an Israeli soccer player, who was reportedly charged with inciting hatred after displaying a message referring to the war during a match yesterday.

Sagiv Jehezkel was detained after displaying a message on his bandaged wrist that said: "100 days, 7.10" alongside a Jewish Star of David emblem.

Turkish authorities charged the player today with inciting hatred before releasing him from custody pending trial, The Associated Press reported. The Israeli Foreign Ministry confirmed his release, saying he was expected to return home to Israel today.

Jehezkel, 28, has played for the Israeli national team. He has been suspended by his club, Antalyaspor, amid anger over the incident in Turkey, where opposition to the war is high.

At least 132 people were killed across the Gaza Strip in the last 24 hours, the enclave's health ministry said in a post on Facebook today, with another 252 injured.

"A number of victims are still under rubble and on the roads, and ambulance and civil defense crews cannot reach them," it said.

This puts the death toll in Gaza at 24,100 since the war began on Oct. 7, the ministry said.