The Israeli military said it intercepted a missile launched from Yemen early Saturday, a day after the Houthi-held capital Sanaa was hit by fresh airstrikes. Sirens sounded in areas of Jerusalem and the Dead Sea on Saturday as "a missile launched from Yemen was intercepted ... prior to crossing into Israeli territory," the Israeli military said.
After multiple air raids targeted Yemen's Sanaa airport in December 2024, which the Iran-backed Huthi rebels blamed on Israel, a photo of smoke billowing from a runway ricocheted worldwide in social media posts that falsely depicted it as showing the recent attack.
The head of the World Health Organization said he was about to board a flight in the Yemeni capital when the airport came under bombardment.
Video shows explosions on Sanaa skyline amidst reports Israel's military struck multiple targets linked to the Iran-aligned Houthi movement in Yemen , including Sanaa International Airport. Video Cred
Yemeni Armed Forces targeted Israeli sites, including the Ben Gurion airport, and a US carrier as Sanaa endured US-British airstrikes.
The targeted sites included Hezyaz and Ras Kanatib power stations, military infrastructure in the ports of Hodeidah, Salif and Ras Kanatib
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Israeli warplanes launched a new wave of airstrikes in Yemen targeting several strategic sites, including Sanaa airport and the port of Al-Hudaydah in western Yemen, public broadcaster KAN said. Israel’s Channel 12 said power stations were targeted in ...
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The Houthi group, which controls much of northern Yemen, has been launching rocket and drone attacks against Israel and disrupting "Israeli-linked" shipping in the Red Sea since November 2023 in solidarity with Palestinians amid their conflict with Israel in the Gaza Strip.
The Houthi militia has recently released several individuals it had abducted for celebrating Yemen’s September Revolution. However, over the past few days, it has detained hundreds of residents in its stronghold of Saada,