Israel attacks Yemen's capital after warning people to leave area near Sanaa airport

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· Posted: May 06, 2025 9:48 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 minutes ago

Israel attacked Yemen's superior of Sanaa connected Tuesday, Houthi-run Al-Masirah TV said, with eyewitnesses reporting four strikes, after the Israeli subject warned radical to permission the country astir the main airport.

Later Tuesday, Israel's subject confirmed it had struck Sanaa International Airport.

The onslaught followed Israeli airstrikes on the Yemeni larboard of Hodeidah connected Monday successful effect to a Houthi rocket that landed adjacent Israel's main aerial hub one day earlier.

"Not evacuating puts you successful danger," the subject said. It published a representation of the country surrounding Sanaa International Airport.

In a connection Monday, the subject said it attacked what it called Houthi violent targets successful Hodeidah and its vicinity. The strikes killed 4 radical and injured 39, according to the Houthi-run Health Ministry.

The Houthis unopen down the country astir the larboard and cement mill pursuing the strikes, 3 sources said.

They said the grade of the harm astatine the larboard was unknown, yet the strength of the strikes and occurrence caused terrible harm to the containers' berth.

Two different sources estimated the harm astatine 70 per cent of the port's 5 docks, warehouses and customs area. The strikes occurred arsenic 2 ships were unloading their cargo, with postulation astatine the larboard astatine a implicit standstill, a larboard idiosyncratic said.

Netanyahu vowed to retaliate 

The larboard is the second-largest successful the Red Sea, aft Aden, and is the introduction constituent for astir 80 per cent of Yemen's nutrient imports. More than 10 strikes targeted the Hodeidah Port and the Al Salakhanah and Al Hawak neighbourhoods successful the city, 5 residents told Reuters. Four strikes besides targeted a cement mill eastbound of Hodeidah.

"The onslaught was carried retired successful effect to repeated attacks carried retired by the Houthi violent authorities against the authorities of Israel successful which surface-to-surface missiles and unmanned craft were launched astatine the territory of the authorities and its citizens," the Israeli subject said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to retaliate for Sunday's rocket attack, which was the archetypal known to person escaped interception by Israel's aerial defences successful a bid of attacks since March.

Houthi authoritative Abdul Qader al-Mortada said successful an X station commenting connected the onslaught that Israel should hold for the "unimaginable."

The Yemeni radical resumed its attacks connected Israel and shipping lanes pursuing a little suspension aft the ceasefire betwixt Hamas and Israel successful Gaza ended.

U.S. forces not actively involved, authoritative says

The Houthis, who control Yemen, person been firing astatine Israel and shipping successful the Red Sea since the opening of the Israel-Hamas warfare successful Gaza, successful what they accidental is solidarity with the Palestinians.

A U.S. authoritative speaking connected information of anonymity said that U.S. forces were not actively progressive successful Monday's strikes, but determination is wide co-ordination betwixt the 2 allies.

Meanwhile, an lipid institution operated by the Houthis announced it has begun operating an exigency strategy for supplying cars with fuel, owing to difficulties successful unloading cargo astatine the lipid larboard of Ras Isa.

In a statement, the institution attributed the determination to U.S. strikes connected the country, including at the port.

U.S. President Donald Trump in March ordered large-scale strikes against the Houthis. The strikes person killed hundreds of radical in Yemen while Israel has mostly constricted its strikes on Yemen since December of past year.

On Monday, Israel approved a plan that whitethorn see seizing the Gaza Strip for an unspecified magnitude of clip and controlling assistance to the Palestinian enclave.

The warfare successful Gaza started aft Hamas-led attacks connected confederate Israel connected Oct. 7, 2023 saw 1,200 radical killed and 251 taken hostage, according to Israeli tallies. Israel's violative connected Gaza has killed much than 52,000 Palestinians, Gaza wellness officials person said, and destroyed overmuch of the enclave.