Explosions heard at Yemen's Hodeidah port after Israel issues evacuation orders
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The Israeli military's Arabic spokesman said late on Sunday that Israel will strike those areas due to military activities being conducted there.
In a statement, the military's Arabic-language spokesman Avichay Adraee identified those places as the ports of Hodeidah, Ras Isa and Salif, as well as the Hodeidah power station.
Meanwhile, indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas towards a ceasefire deal in Gaza have started in Qatar, a Palestinian official familiar with the talks told Agence France-Presse late on Sunday.
'Negotiations are about implementation mechanisms and hostage exchange, and positions are being exchanged through mediators,' the official said. The talks began at around 9.30pm Jerusalem time and were still going on, he added.
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