Intense Israeli airstrikes targeted Yemen's rebel-held capital and a key port city, killing at least nine people, following a Houthi missile attack on central Israel. The strikes risk escalating the conflict with the Iranian-backed Houthis.
A series of intense Israel i airstrikes shook Yemen 's rebel-held capital Sanaa and a port city early Thursday and killed at least nine people, officials said, shortly after a Houthi missile targeted central Israel . Thursday’s strikes risk further escalating conflict with the Iranian-backed Houthis, whose attacks on the Red Sea corridor have drastically impacted global shipping.
The rebels have so far avoided the same level of intense military strikes that have targeted Palestinian militant group Hamas and Lebanon’s Hezbollah, fellow members of Tehran’s self-described “Axis of Resistance.” The Houthi-controlled satellite channel al-Masirah said that some of the strikes targeted power stations in the capital, as well as the Ras Isa oil terminal on the Red Sea. The channel, citing its correspondent in the port city of Hodeida, said that at least seven people had been killed at the nearby port of Salif, while another two had been killed at the Ras Isa oil terminal. Others suffered wounds at the Hodeida port as well, it said. An Israeli military statement offered neither specifics on the targets hit, nor any damage assessment. But it alleged that the Houthis used the sites “for military purposes,' including smuggling Iranian weapons. Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, an Israeli military spokesman, said the strikes hit energy and port infrastructure, which he alleged the rebels “have been using in ways that effectively contributed to their military action.” “I suggest the leaders of the Houthis to see, to understand and remember: Whoever raises a hand against the state of Israel, his hand will be cut off, whoever harms us — will be harmed sevenfold,” Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said. Rebel-held Hodeida, about 145 kilometers (90 miles) southwest of Sanaa, has been key for food shipments into Yemen as its decade-long war has gone on. There's also longstanding suspicion that weapons from Iran have been transferred through the port
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