The Israeli military launched heavy airstrikes on Yemen for the second day on Tuesday, targeting the Sanaa International Airport and other infrastructure in the capital.
According to Yemeni media, at least three people were killed and 38 were wounded in the attacks, which targeted the airport, a cement factory, and power plants.
The IDF said the strikes on the airport targeted runways, aircraft, and infrastructure, and claimed the airport was “totally disabled.” The IDF claimed the attack on the cement factory “constitutes a blow to the regime’s economy and its military buildup.”
The Israeli strikes that hit Yemen on Monday targeted the port of Hodeidah and the Bajil cement factory, which is also in the Hodeidah province. According to the Yemeni news agency SABA, the attacks on the port and the Bajil cement factory killed at least four people and wounded 39.
The Israeli attacks on Yemen came after the Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah, successfully struck the Ben Gurion Airport in a missile attack. Before the missile strike, the Trump administration had asked Israel not to respond to the Houthis’ attacks and said that US forces would handle the retaliation.
Israel’s strikes on key infrastructure in Yemen have dire implications for millions of Yemeni civilians who are struggling with food shortages, but the attacks are not expected to deter the Houthis. The Ansar Allah-led government, which controls an area of Yemen where about 70% to 80% of Yemenis live, is vowing it will respond.
According to SABA, the Yemeni Foreign Ministry “condemned the Zionist aggression against civilian sites in Yemen, affirming that this assault will not go unpunished.”
Since March 15, the US has launched over 1,000 airstrikes on Yemen, killing over 200 civilians. More US airstrikes were reported in Yemen on Tuesday morning, targeting the Ras Isa fuel port in Hodeidah and areas around Sanaa.
It appears the Israeli jets for the Monday attack never returned back to Israel and camped overnight on the USS Truman in the Red Sea for Tuesday attack…!
What aircraft in Israel fleet is capable of landing on an aircraft carrier? And when where Israel pilots train to land on a carrier?
As predicted, the airport was destroyed.
It went from 90% destroyed to 95% …
No. this last strike did a lot more damage, including the blowing up airplanes.
In a war between a side with nothing to lose and a side with everything to lose, the former will win every time. Israel has picked on the wrong enemy.
You see this on MoA? I know you comment there sometimes. I just read. Translated from Arabic:
We do not sacrifice for Gaza, but we sacrifice for ourselves, because Gaza is us and nothing else.
The Yemeni people do not see things the way some people do, who believe in the distorted and miserable reality and surrender to it.
The Yemeni people are a Muslim people and were described by the Messenger of God, Muhammad, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family, when he said, “Faith is Yemeni and wisdom is Yemeni.” Therefore, he does not see himself as one thing and Gaza as something else; rather, he sees it as part of his country and its people as his people, as one Arab Muslim nation, because he receives his principles from the Qur’an and not from the Western colonizer. The Qur’an decided that we are one nation and its decision is binding and we are committed to it, government and people. This is one of the meanings of faith and this is a picture of wisdom.
The martyr in Gaza pains us just as much as the martyr in Yemen pains us. The targeting of people's livelihoods in Gaza pains us just as it pains us in Yemen.
You will not be able to separate our brotherhood, our feelings, and differentiate between our pains, while we know that it is not love for us, but hatred for our unity with Gaza and our sacrifice with it.
We did not support Gaza on the condition that nothing would happen to us, but we supported it because something happened to us in Gaza and we won for our pain. So either we all surrender or we all sacrifice until victory comes, and it is very close. In fact, we are in its beginnings and we are witnessing it, and we do not care how the fool who sees the truth as falsehood and falsehood as truth sees it.
It is the same principle towards our other countries, and this is what some people were surprised by in the recent statement of the Yemeni Armed Forces, which imposed an air blockade on the entity in response to the violation of various Arab countries.
From the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Yemeni News Agency Saba and Deputy Chairman of the Ansar Allah Media Authority, Nasruddin Amer.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | May 6 2025 14:57 utc | 211
I’ve seen LoveDs stuff … as a person originally from that area, I think he severely exaggerates the piety of the public as a whole … nothing is ever unanimous anywhere in other words.
I think in that particular comment he quoted an official? Nasruddin Amer?
But in the scheme of things, like ethnic cleansing, the Houthis truly are carrying the weight of resistance in the whole world.
An amazingly tough people … remind me of Afghans …
I see what you mean about other comments, in general, though.
But even ex diplomat/intelligence agent Alastair Crooke, months ago, said Palestinians, and I assume the Houthis, have a more collective view of life rather than the individualism of western culture. Some or most of them dying for the cause of the survival of the group is paramount. It’s amazing the sacrifice.
So I think that translated comment is true.
Israel seems to have an obssesion with anyone in the region that has thousands years old history. Otherwise — there is no explanation for hitting the city of Sanaa. The city has been continuously inhabitted for thousands of years. And there are very few streets that cars can travel through, even small ones. No military use or even mikitary offices. Concrete plant in Hodeidah is useless for militaryn uses. Yemen does not need bunkers as itv has natural protection in many gorges in mostly granite mountain chain rising from Red Sea. Clearly more than a year has passed since Yemen has been subject of intensive electronic surveilance unsuccessfully. Clearly Temen has devised various countermeasures to misdirect , as well as distribute their assets not judt accross mountains but at different altitudes.
Well well, Trump declared end of bombing. Houthis promises to behave well. Trump said — eord is acceptable.
I'm breathing a sigh of relief. I expected Israel to bomb more port cranes, hospitals, fuel, and food depots. I hate saying this but is Israel sparing those targets because they are afraid of Yemeni retaliation? Wow, it's as if Israel is only deterred by threat of force.