Israeli strike on Yemen’s Houthis reportedly kills eight

The Israeli army says that its air force carried out the “strongest strike” in Yemen in response to the Houthi Houthi movement’s frequent aircraft.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said that dozens of their planes bombed their Houthi security and intelligence services and the army in the capital SANA.

The Houthi -running Ministry of Health condemned what it described as the “Botal Crime” in Israel, saying that civilian facilities and residential buildings were killed and that eight people were killed.

It comes a day after 22 people were seriously injured, and two of them are seriously in a veil attack by drones at the Israeli Eilat resort.

The Houthis have taken control of many Yemen in the northwest since they toppled the internationally recognized government from there 10 years ago, which sparked a civil war.

They started attacking Israel and international shipping in the southern Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden shortly after the start of the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza in October 2023, saying they were acting to support the Palestinians.

Israel has carried out several air strikes in Yemen in response to hundreds of missiles and drones that were launched in the country by the Houthis.

Videos from Sana showed large columns of black smoke that rises from at least three sites in the city after the Israeli strikes on Thursday afternoon.

The attack took place moments before the Houthi TV, which was run by the Houthi TV, started broadcasting a letter by the leader of the movement, Abdul Malik Al -Houthi.

Al -Masirah stated that the strikes targeted the residential areas in the provinces of Main and Sapien, as well as the Daban power plant. She posted pictures showing many destroyed buildings and damage.

A spokesman for the Ministry of Health accused Dr. Anis Al -Asmahi, the Israeli Defense Army of “deliberate and organized targeting of civil, service and residential facilities”, who said it was “a war crime in every sense of the word.

He stated that eight people were killed and 142 were wounded, and that the civilians were among them. He added that the first respondents were still searching under the rubble for losses.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz wrote to X that his country “made a severe blow to many terrorist targets of the Houthi terrorist organization in SANA.”

The Israeli Defense Army said in a statement that the targets included the headquarters of the General Staff of the Houthi Army, the security vehicles and the intelligence, the “military relations headquarters”, and the military camps used to store weapons.

He added: “The Israeli Defense Army will act against the ongoing and repeated attacks of the Houthi terrorist regime against the state of Israel. Additional offensive operations will take place against the Houthi regime in the near future.”

A separate statement on the Israeli army said that the investigation of the Houthi attack on Wednesday on Eilat suggested that the drone launched from Yemen “was relatively late, and that warning sirens had been activated according to the protocol.

“Attempts to intercede using the iron dome have been made [air defence system]But it did not succeed. The cause of this has been determined, and corrective measures were implemented. “

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

The Houthi military spokesman said that the attack was “in response to the crimes of genocide and the serious escalation of the Israeli enemy against our people in the Gaza Strip.”

On September 10, four days after the Houthi drone attack at Ramon Airport in Eilat, one person was wounded, the Israeli army had a series of strikes in SANA province and the Ceff County, which killed 35 people, according to the Houthi Ministry of Health.

The CPJ Protection Committee (CPJ) said last week that 31 journalists and workers to support the media were among those who were killed in SANA and that the accident was one bloody attack on the press all over the world 16 years ago.

Al -Yaman newspaper said on September 26 that all of them, with the exception of one of them, worked in its office or headquarters of the government’s moral guidance directorate, which was bombed.

The Israeli Defense Army said at the time that it had targeted the “Houthi Public Relations Department.”