The Ministry of Health led by Houthi called 2 killed by Israeli strikes on the capital of Yemen

The Houthi rebels supported by Iran said that the Israeli air strikes struck several areas in the capital of Yemen on Sunday.

According to the Ministry of Health managed by the Houthi, at least two people were killed and 35 injured.

Satellite television of the al-Masirah rebels reported a strike on an oil company; Video on social networks showed a fireball that cleared up there.

The Israeli army said that it had struck the ASAR and Hizaz power stations, calling them “a major electricity supply installation for military activities”, as well as a military site where the presidential palace is located.

Sanaa residents told the Associated Press that they had heard of noisy explosions close to a closed military academy and the presidential palace. They said they could see smoke plumes near Sabeen Square, a central gathering place in the capital.

“The sounds of the explosions were very strong,” said Hussein Mohamed, who lives near the presidential palace.

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Ahmed al-Mekhlafy said he felt the pure force of the strikes.

“The house was shaken and the windows were broken,” he said by phone.

The Houthis launched missiles and drones to Israel and targeted ships in the Red Sea for more than 22 months, saying that they are in solidarity with the Palestinians in the middle of the war in Gaza.

Nasruddin Amer, deputy chief of the Houthi media office, said the last air strikes do not dissuade the rebels and have not been walked to continue attacks on Israel.

“Our military operations supporting Gaza will not stop, God wants, unless the aggression is arrested and the seat is lifted,” he wrote on social networks.

Tit for tat

Israeli strikes were the first to hit Yemen a week ago when Israel said that she had targeted the energy infrastructure she thought was used by the rebels.

Friday, the latest strikes follow the claim of the Houthis to launch a newly equipped missile to Israel, in particular by targeting the largest airport in the country, Ben Gurion. There was no damage or injury reported. The Israeli army said it had fragmented the tunes after several attempts to interception.

An Israeli Air Force official, speaking on condition of anonymity in accordance with military regulations, described a new threat to the projectile a new threat on Friday. It was a cluster’s ammunition, he said, supposed to explode in several explosives on the impact.

The use of bombs in clusters makes Israeli interception more difficult and represents additional technology provided to Houthis by Iran, said the manager.

The official said that more than 10 Israeli hunting planes had carried out on Sunday strikes.

Houthi attacks in the past two years have overturned expeditions to the Red Sea, through which goods worth 1 billion of dollars each year.

From November 2023 to December 2024, the Houthis targeted more than 100 ships with missiles and drones. The rebels stopped their attacks during a brief ceasefire in Gaza and later became the target of an air strike campaign of several weeks ordered by US President Donald Trump.

In May, the United States announced an agreement with the Houthis to end the air strikes in exchange for the end of the shipping attacks, although the rebel group said that the agreement did not include stopping attacks against targets which, according to him, were aligned with Israel.

In May, Israeli air strikes hit Sanaa airport in a rare daytime attack that destroyed the terminal and left craters in its track. At least six passenger planes have been affected, including three belonging to Yemenia Airways, according to airport authorities.