As Israel, under the leadership of Netanyahu, continues to mount offensives in the Middle East, the Sanaa Airport in Yemen was severely damaged on Dec 26.
Israel Strikes Sanaa Airport, Power Stations in Yemen
As Israel, under the leadership of Netanyahu, continues to mount offensives in the Middle East, the Sanaa Airport in Yemen was severely damaged on Dec 26. Houthi Al Masirah TV reported that the Israeli strikes killed three, including two in the strike on Sanaa International Airport. Eleven more were injured, it added.
Tedros Ghebreyesus, director general of the United Nations’ World Health Organization, said the strikes prevented a mission negotiating the release of UN staff detainees from leaving Yemen. The Israeli military said it was targeting “infrastructure used by the Houthi terrorist regime for its military activities at the international airport in Sanaa and the Aziz and Ras Qantib power stations.” It also targeted infrastructure “at the ports of Hodeidah, Al-Salif and Ras Qantib on the western coast of Yemen.”
It said the sites were used “to transfer Iranian weapons” or to receive senior visiting officials from Iran. Yemeni media had earlier reported explosions and airstrikes at these sites, with a Houthi spokesman blaming “Israeli aggression.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said
“We are determined to cut this branch of terrorism from the Iranian axis of evil. We will continue until the job is done”. “I have instructed our forces to destroy the infrastructure of Houthis because anyone who tries to harm us will be struck with full force,” Netanyahu had said.
Houthis firing on Israel and Red Sea shipping
Yemen’s Houthis, who have controlled most of the country since seizing power during 2014 and early 2015, have become more militarily active amid Israel’s military operations in Gaza. They say their strikes aim to support Palestinians amid the ongoing war in Gaza, where local health authorities say over 45,300 have thus far been killed.
Israel forces capture 85,000 weapons from Hezbollah
“The weapons confiscated were used by Hezbollah and were intended to harm the citizens of the State of Israel, as part of the plan to ‘conquer the Galilee,'” the IDF said. Israeli lawmakers are considering authorizing the transfer of captured Russian-made weapons to Ukraine. The Russian weapons were found in larger quantities than expected, often in their original crates with Russian labels. The Wall St. Journal reported that as much as 70 per cent of Hezbollah’s weapons were Russian-made.
U.S. Army’s First Combat Use of THAAD
 The system, forward-deployed in Israel, was employed against an incoming medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM) fired by the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, a U.S. military official. The THAAD battery and about 100 soldiers were deployed to Israel in October to bolster Israel’s defenses ahead of an expected Israeli retaliation for Tehran’s massive missile barrage earlier that month.
