The Israeli strike on the Yemen Houthis would have killed eight

The Israeli army said that its air force has made its “most powerful strike” in Yemen in response to the repeated attacks of the drone and the missiles of the Houthi movement against Israel.

Israeli Defense Forces (FRI) said dozens of its planes bombed targets from the Houthi and soldiers in the Sanaa capital and soldiers.

The Ministry of Health of the Government managed by the Houthis denounced what he called the “brutal crime” of Israel, saying that civil facilities and residential buildings have been affected and that eight people were killed.

It comes one day after 22 people were injured, two of which were seriously, during a Houthi drone attack in the Eilat station in the Israeli Red Sea.

The Houthis have checked a large part of the Northwest Yemen since they ousted the internationally recognized government of the country from there 10 years ago, causing a civil war.

They began to attack Israel and international expeditions in the South Sea of ​​the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden shortly after the start of the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza in October 2023, saying that they were acting to support the Palestinians.

Israel has carried out numerous cycles of air strikes in Yemen in retaliation for the hundreds of missiles and drones that have been launched in the country by the Houthis.

Sanaa’s videos showed large plumes of black smoke from at least three locations in the city after the Israeli strikes on Thursday afternoon.

The attack took place for a few moments before the Al-Masirah TV, managed by the Houettes, began to broadcast a speech by the leader of the movement, Abdul Malik al-Houthi.

Al-Masirah reported that strikes tarnished the residential areas of the districts of Maain and Sabaeen, as well as the Dhahban power plant. He published photographs showing several destroyed and damaged buildings.

The spokesperson for the Ministry of Health, Dr. ANEES, Al-Asbahi, accused the FDI of the “deliberate and systematic targeting of civil, service and residential installations”, which, according to him, was “a war crime in every sense of the word.

He reported that eight people had been killed and 142 injured and that civilians were among them. He added that the first speakers were still looking for rubbish for victims.

The Israeli Minister of Defense Israel Katz wrote on X that his country had “delivered a powerful strike on many terrorist targets of the Houthi terrorist organization in Sanaa”.

The FDIs said in a press release that the objectives included the general headquarters of the Houthi army command of the staff, security and intelligence compounds, the “Public Relations Headquarters” of the Houthi and the military camps used to store weapons.

“The FDI will operate against the current and repeated attacks of the Houthi terrorist regime against the State of Israel, will carry out additional offensive operations against the Houthi regime in the near future,” he added.

A separate Israeli army statement said that Wednesday’s Houthi attack on Wednesday against Eilat suggested that the drone launched from Yemen had been “detected relatively late and that warning sirens were activated in accordance with the protocol.

“Interception attempts were made using the Iron Dome (air defense system), but failed. The cause has been identified and corrective measures have been implemented.”

Since the start of the war in Gaza, Israeli forces have intercepted more than 98% of the drones launched to Israel by the Houthis, according to the IDF.

The military spokesman for the Houthis said that the attack was a “response to the crimes of the genocide and the dangerous climbing led by the Israeli enemy against our people in the Gaza Strip”.

On September 10, four days after an attack by Houthi drones against Eilat Ramon airport, injured a person, the Israeli army carried out a series of strikes in Sanaa and the province of Al-Jawf which killed 35 people, according to the Houthi Ministry of Health.

The committee to protect journalists (CPJ) said last week that 31 journalists and media support workers were one of the people killed in Sanaa and that the incident was the most deadly attack against the world in the world in 16 years.

The newspaper of Yemen on September 26 said that all except one had worked in its office or the headquarters of the government’s moral orientation management, which were both bombed.

The FDI said at the time that it had targeted the “Houthi public relations service”.