Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi rebels said on Saturday (February 17) that they had fired missiles at the oil tanker Pollux, which U.S. officials said a day earlier had been hit by a missile. Meanwhile, Israel’s national security minister, Itamar Ben Gvir, pledged to increase the distribution of guns to civilians. Israel’s far-right minister spoke at the scene of a shooting in southern Israel where two Israelis were killed by gunmen.