Israel Launches Airstrikes Against Houthis in Yemen

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Israel Launches Airstrikes Against Houthis in Yemen
The Houthis have been attacking ships in the Red Sea for more than a year in what they have described as a campaign in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.


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The aftermath of an Israeli airstrike at a power station in Sana, the Yemeni capital, on Thursday.Credit...Osamah Abdulrahman/Associated Press
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By Matthew Mpoke Bigg
Dec. 19, 2024, 5:19 a.m. ET
The Israeli military said it struck Houthi targets in Yemen early Thursday in response to the Iran-backed militia’s attacks on Israel.

The announcement about the strikes — which killed nine people, according to Al-Masirah, a TV channel affiliated with the Houthis — came hours after Israel’s military said it had intercepted a missile launched from Yemen.

Israeli warplanes struck targets belonging to the Houthis on the “western coast and in inland Yemen,” the military said in a statement. Those included “ports and energy infrastructure” in the capital, Sana, it added in a later statement.

Al-Masirah reported that seven people died in a strike on the port city of Salif, while two others were killed at an oil facility nearby in Ras Isa. Both cities are in western Yemen, not far from the much larger port of Hudaydah, in a part of the country controlled by the Houthis.

Israel’s military has carried out a number of strikes in recent months against the Houthis. For more than a year, the Houthis have been attacking commercial vessels in the Red Sea out of what it says is solidarity with Palestinians under Israeli attack in Gaza.

The Houthis have also fired missiles at Israel itself, which is more than 1,300 miles northwest of Yemen.

Most of those missiles have been intercepted, according to the Israeli authorities. However, a drone strike on Tel Aviv in July killed one person and injured others. In retaliation, Israel bombed Hudaydah.


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