GAZA: Several people were killed and wounded after Israeli forces launched air and artillery attacks on the cities of Gaza and Rafah overnight, Al Jazeera reports citing Wafa news agency.

Wafa did not give an exact toll for the attacks.

It reported deaths and injuries from Israeli air raids on homes in Gaza City’s Daraj neighbourhood and Old City, as well as artillery shelling of areas near the University College in the Sabra neighbourhood.

In Rafah, it said several people were wounded and several homes destroyed when Israeli forces carried air raids on the city’s Brazil neighbourhood.

The US’s Centcom has said its forces “successfully engaged” two antiship ballistic missiles fired by Yemen’s Houthis at the USS Gravely in the southern Red Sea on Saturday, Al Jazeera reports.

Centcom said the missiles’ launch did not cause any damage or injuries.

It added that its forces destroyed one Houthi drone in the southern Red Sea and observed two other drones crash into the water.

The statement comes after the Houthis announced it had conducted six operations targeting a US aircraft carrier, a US destroyer and three vessels in the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, Al Jazeera noted.