Israeli strikes hit Yemen’s capital and port city after Houthi missile intercepted
Strikes targeted power stations and an oil terminal in Yemen after a Houthi missile was launched at Israel
A series of intense Israeli air strikes shook Yemen’s rebel-held capital and a port city early Thursday and killed at least nine people, officials said, shortly after a Houthi missile targeted central Israel.
Thursday’s strikes risk further escalating conflict with the Iranian-backed Houthis, whose attacks on the Red Sea corridor have drastically impacted global shipping.
The rebels have so far avoided the same level of intense military strikes that have targeted Palestinian militant group Hamas and Lebanon’s Hezbollah, fellow members of Tehran’s self-described “Axis of Resistance”.
Israel’s military said that it conducted two waves of strikes in a pre-planned operation that began early Thursday and involved 14 fighter jets. The military said the first wave of strikes targeted Houthi infrastructure at the ports of Hodeida, Salif and the Ras Isa oil terminal on the Red Sea.
Then, in a second wave of strikes, the military said its fighter jets targeted Houthi energy infrastructure in Sanaa.
