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Israel launches air strikes on Yemen concentrating on Sanaa airport, army base and an influence plant in Hodeidah.
A number of Israeli air raids have focused an airport, army base and an influence station in Yemen, Israeli and Houthi media say.
Capital Sanaa’s airport and the adjoining Al-Dailami base have been focused on Thursday together with the facility plant within the port city of Hodeidah, in assaults that the Houthis’ Al-Masirah TV channel referred to as “Israeli aggression”.
Yemeni journalist Hussain al-Bukhaiti instructed Al Jazeera the assault on Sanaa airport noticed one in every of its management towers being focused, disrupting the operations.
There was no rapid remark from the Israeli army on the strikes, which got here a day after Yemen fired a ballistic missile and two drones in the direction of Israel.
Al Jazeera’s Hamdah Salhut, reporting from Amman, mentioned each time Israelis forces conduct such assaults in Yemen, “they typically launch an in depth assertion afterwards with video footage displaying the entire sorts of jets that have been concerned”.
On Saturday, a Houthi missile assault left 16 individuals wounded in Tel Aviv. The incident prompted a warning from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who mentioned he had ordered the destruction of Houthi infrastructure.
Houthi fighters in Yemen have focused Israel and ships linked to it within the Pink Sea and the Gulf of Aden since Israel launched its genocide in Gaza on October 7, 2023, following a Hamas-led assault on Israel.
The Houthis say they’re appearing in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, the place greater than 45,000 individuals, largely youngsters and ladies, have been killed by Israeli forces.
