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.
Israeli military attacks several sites, including airport in Yemen’s capital as the WHO chief boards a flight.
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
The strikes were in response to previous Houthi missile and drone attacks on Israel, which have escalated in recent weeks. View on euronews
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
WHO chief says Israel damaged traffic control tower and the departure lounge just 'metres away' from UN agency workers
Israel has severely weakened Hamas and Hezbollah. Now it's going after another member of Iran's so-called axis of resistance: the Houthi rebels of Yemen.
The latest round of strikes occurred as the United States and its ally Israel struggle to halt a campaign of regional assaults by Yemen’s Houthi militants.
A new round of Israeli airstrikes in Yemen on Thursday targeted the Houthi rebel-held capital and multiple ports, while the World Health Organization’s director-general said