Middle East crisis: Israel fails to intercept a missile from Yemen, resulting in

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It is almost 2:30 PM in Tel Aviv and Gaza City. The Guardian's coverage of the Middle East crisis  has come to an end. Here is a  summary of today's events:

The Israeli military said it failed to intercept a missile from Yemen that fell in the Tel Aviv-Jaffa area. Paramedics treated 14 people with minor shrapnel  wounds and some were taken to hospital, the ambulance service said in a  statement.
The US has  withdrawn the reward for Ahmed Al-Sharaa, the leader of the Islamist  group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)  which seized power in Syria. The  decision follows talks between  the new  Syrian authorities and a US  delegation, after  HTS said in a statement  that it wanted Syria to contribute to "regional  peace".
Pope Francis condemned the bombing of children in Gaza as  an "atrocity", a day after an Israeli air strike killed 12 members of  a family, including seven children.  "Children were  bombed yesterday. This is cruelty, this is not war. I want to say  this because it touches my heart," he told an audience of members of the Holy  See government. The death toll  in Gaza is 45,227, according to the Gaza  Ministry of Health. The  number includes 21 deaths in the  last 24 hours, according to the ministry, which also said  that 107,573 people have been  injured in the Gaza Strip since the  start of the war.
Israeli security forces  have carried out raids in the West Bank, according to the Wafa news agency. Palestinian news agencies also reported that Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian farmers in the village of  Burqa in the West Bank, east of  Ramallah.
The Israeli  army said its forces  fired on a protester during a demonstration against  army activities in a village in southern Syria on Friday,  wounding him in the leg. Since  Islamist rebels  overthrew Syrian  President Bashar al-Assad on December  8, Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes on Syrian military  installations, aiming, it  says, to prevent them from falling into  enemy hands.