Offensive left at least six dead; A series of attacks also hit a power plant in the western coastal city of Hodeida
this Thursday (26) bombed the international airport of Sanaa, capital of , and other targets of the Huthi rebels, in operations that left at least six people dead, following recent missile fire from these Iranian-allied militias against Israel. “We are determined to sever this arm of terrorism from the Iranian axis of evil. We will continue until we complete the work”, declared Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, after the air raids in Yemen, a country in the southwest of the Arabian Peninsula, located more than 2 thousand kilometers from Israel. The bombings of the airport, military installations and a power plant came amid increased hostilities between Israel and Yemen’s Huthi rebels, who are part of the so-called “axis of resistance”, a network of organizations aligned with Iran and hostile to the state. Israeli.
The capital’s airport was the target of “more than six” attacks, and the adjacent Al Dailami air base was also bombed, according to witnesses interviewed by the AFP. A series of attacks also hit a power plant in the coastal city of Hodeida, in the west of the country, said a witness and the Huthi-aligned Al Masira TV channel. Insurgent spokesman Mohammed Abdulsalam denounced the attacks as “Israeli aggression against the entire Yemeni people.” The attacks came a day after Huthi rebels launched a missile and two drones at Israel. The Israeli Army stated that “Israeli fighter jets carried out bombings based on intelligence information against military targets belonging to the Houthi terrorist regime.”
The targets included “military infrastructure” at the airport and power plant in Sanaan and Hodeida, as well as other installations in the ports of that city, Salif and Ras Kanatib, the army said in a statement. “These military targets were used by the Houthi terrorist regime to introduce Iranian weapons into the region and for the entry of senior Iranian officials,” the text detailed. “The Huthi terrorist regime is at the center of the Iranian terrorist axis,” he added. Earlier, insurgents reported that two people were killed and 11 injured at Sanaa airport, while another lost his life at the port of Ras Isa, north of Hodeida.
The director of the World Health Organization (WHO), who was at Sanaa airport bombed by Israel this Thursday, reported victims and damage at the site, but assured that he was “safe and sound”. A crew member of Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus’ plane “was injured”, said the head of the WHO, but all members of the delegation of this organization and the UN who accompanied him were unharmed, specified on the social network Huthi rebels as a “crime” and stated that it was “a clear violation of international peace and security”.
The Huthis control large areas of Yemen, including much of its most populous regions, after seizing the capital and overthrowing the internationally recognized government in September 2014. A coalition led by Saudi Arabia launched a military campaign in March 2015 to expel them. , triggering a war that resulted in one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world.
*With information from AFP
Published by Matheus Lopes
