Israel strikes Yemen’s Sanaa airport, Hodeidah power plant

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Israeli subject attacks respective sites, including airdrome successful Yemen’s superior arsenic the WHO main boards a flight.

Israel’s subject says it struck aggregate targets linked to the Houthi rebels successful Yemen, including Sanaa International Airport and 3 ports on the occidental coast.

The attacks carried retired connected Thursday deed Yemen’s Hezyaz and Ras Kanatib powerfulness stations arsenic good arsenic subject infrastructure successful the ports of Hodeidah, Salif and Ras Kanatib, the subject said.

The attacks connected Sanaa airdrome and Hodeidah powerfulness presumption were besides reported by Al Masirah TV, the main tv quality outlet tally by the Houthis.

Yemeni writer Hussain al-Bukhaiti told Al Jazeera the onslaught connected the airdrome successful the superior Sanaa targeted 1 of its power towers, disrupting operations.

“All Israeli attacks … whether its against Yemen oregon Gaza, they [Yemeni forces] volition dainty arsenic an escalation. And I judge … the Yemeni service whitethorn behaviour a large onslaught against Israel,” helium said.

Mohammed al-Attab, different writer from Yemen who spoke to Al Jazeera, said this was not the archetypal clip Israeli forces had attacked the Sanaa airport.

“The airdrome has been bombed connected much than 1 juncture … and has been rehabilitated,” helium said, adding that determination were nary reports of casualties truthful far.

Meanwhile, the caput of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said helium and his United Nations colleagues were preparing to committee a level astatine Sanaa airdrome erstwhile it came nether Israeli bombardment.

“One of our plane’s unit members was injured. At slightest 2 radical were reported killed astatine the airport. The aerial postulation power tower, the departure lounge – conscionable a fewer meters from wherever we were – and the runway were damaged,” helium said successful a station connected X, adding that they were each safe.

Tedros said the UN and WHO teams were successful the state “to negociate the merchandise of UN unit detainees and to measure the wellness and humanitarian concern successful Yemen”.

The Israeli strikes came a time aft Yemen’s Houthis, who power northwestern Yemen, including Sanaa and its Red Sea coast, fired a ballistic rocket and 2 drones towards Israel. Over the weekend, 16 radical were wounded erstwhile a Houthi rocket deed a playground successful Tel Aviv.

Last week, Israeli jets struck Sanaa and Hodeidah, sidesplitting 9 people, calling it a effect to erstwhile Houthi attacks.

Al Jazeera’s Hamdah Salhut, reporting from Amman, said Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Defence Minister Israel Katz person some antecedently said “Yemen volition wage a price” for the caller attacks connected Israel.

“You are looking astatine slightest 5 antithetic incidents successful which determination were missiles fired by the Houthis into Israeli airspace, 1 of them really making interaction successful Tel Aviv,” she said.

On Saturday, a Houthi rocket onslaught wounded 16 radical successful Tel Aviv. The incidental prompted a informing from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who said helium ordered the demolition of Houthi infrastructure.

Netanyahu connected Thursday said the strikes connected Yemen would proceed “until the occupation is done”.

“We are determined to chopped this subdivision of coercion from the Iranian axis of evil. We volition proceed until the occupation is done,” helium said successful a video statement.

Houthi fighters person targeted Israel and ships linked to it successful the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden since Israel launched its genocide successful Gaza connected October 7, 2023, aft a Hamas-led onslaught connected Israel, which killed 1,139 people.

The Houthis said they are acting successful solidarity with Palestinians successful Gaza, wherever much than 45,000 people, mostly children and women, person been killed by Israeli forces.

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