Just a few days after the Houth rebels burned a rocket against Israel, Israeli air strikes hit the capital of Yemen on Sunday, the rebels said, adding that the latest attack focused on the Iranian group supported.
The Houthi Media office said the strikes hit more areas across the capital of Sanaa, including a power plant and a petrol station. The inhabitants reported that they heard loud sounds of explosions in different areas, including the nearby presidential palace.
The reported strikes were the first to hit Yemen since the week when Israel said it focused on the energy infrastructure that he believed that the insurgents used. Israel immediately confirmed the Sunday attack.
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Iran supported Houthis unloaded missiles and drones towards Israel and focused ships in the Red Sea for more than 22 months. They say that they perform attacks in solidarity with Palestinians in the middle of the war in the Gaza Strip.
The inhabitants of Sana told the Associated Press agency that they had heard a loud explosion near the closed Military Academy and the Presidential Palace. They said they could see smoke plumes near Sabeen Square, a central assembly in the capital.
“The sound of the explosion was very strong,” said Hussein Mohammad, Yemeni inhabitants of Yemen, who lives near the presidential palace.
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Ahmed al-Meklafa, other inhabitants, also said he felt the absolute power of strikes. “The house was swinging and the windows were broken,” AP said on the phone.
Nasruddin Amer, Deputy Head of the Media Office of Houthi, claimed that Israeli strikes would not discourage rebels and promised to continue their attacks on Israel.
“Our military operations supporting Gaza will not stop, God is willing if the aggression is not stopped and the siege will not rise,” he wrote on the social media.
The strike comes after Houthis claimed to have launched newly equipped missiles on Israel on Friday, including targeting the largest airport in the country. No damage or injuries from this attack has been reported in Israel. The Israeli army said that after several attempts to capture it shattered in the air.
The Israeli Air Force official, who spoke on condition of anonymity in accordance with military regulations, said that the kind of projectile was fired from Yemen on Friday evening was a new threat. The rocket was a cluster ammunition, said, a projectile to detonate to several explosives.
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It was the first time that Houthis launched a cluster bomb in Israel because the militant group began to launch missiles in 2023, the official said.
The use of cluster bombs makes it difficult to capture Israel and also represents another technology provided by Iran Houthis, the official said.
Houthi attacks have caused transport in the Red Sea over the last two years, through which about $ 1 trillion passes every year.
From November 2023 to December 2024, Houthis focused on more than 100 ships with missiles and drones. The insurgents stopped their attacks in a short ceasefire in the war and later became the destination of the intense, weeks of the air campaign ordered by US President Donald Trump.
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In May, the United States announced an agreement with Houthis to end the air strikes in return for the end of the transport attacks, although a group of insurgents said that the agreement did not include stopping attacks on the targets that were in line with Israel.
In May, Israeli aviation strikes hit Sana with a rare daily attack that destroyed the terminal of the device and left the craters in its track. According to the airport authorities, at least six personal aircraft, including the three belonging to Melenia Airways, were affected.
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