It’s being reported now that Israel is conducting a bombing campaign in Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, after the Houthis fired an internationally banned missile at Israel on Friday.
The bomings have been near the presidential palace in Yemen, targeting a power station and missile bases.
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Here’s more from Ynet:
According to a preliminary investigation by the Israeli Air Force, the missile fired from Yemen on Friday evening carried a submunition warhead. The strike, which hit a house in the community of Ginaton in central Israel, caused no injuries. An 85-year-old woman inside the home was unharmed after taking shelter in a fortified room.
The IDF said that the missile “likely broke apart in midair” and that while several interception attempts were made, the failed intercept was not related to the missile’s unique characteristics. “Our upper-tier air defense systems are capable of intercepting such missiles, as they have in the past,” the military said.
Shortly after the investigation’s findings were made public, Israel began striking a series of targets in Yemen. According to Arab media reports, Israeli strikes hit missile bases in the area surrounding Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, as well as in the vicinity of the presidential palace. Hezbollah-linked outlet Al Mayadeen reported three airstrikes in southwestern Sanaa, while Reuters cited eyewitnesses saying missile bases were among the targets. A Yemeni TV station also claimed an Israeli strike targeted a previously bombed power station.
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Houthi missile attack on Israel which struck home in central Israel carried banned cluster warhead, Israel announces, prompting IDF to carry out major strikes on Houthi-controlled Yemeni capital city.
Israeli warplanes bombed Houthi positions in Yemen on Sunday, including the Yemeni presidential palace, days after Yemen-based terrorists launched a missile at Israel which utilized a cluster warhead.
The strikes came in response to a missile attack conducted on Friday by the Ansar Allah terrorist group – an Iranian-backed Shi’ite movement in Yemen widely referred to as the Houthis.
On Sunday, Israel confirmed that the missile carried a cluster warhead, capable of scattering smaller explosives over a wide area.
The cluster warhead is internationally banned, but was used by Iran on Israeli cities during the 12-day war in June.
Friday’s missile attack damaged a private home in the central Israeli town of Ginaton, but caused no injuries.
“There were two explosions at home,” the owner of the home, 85-year-old Ilana Hatoumi told Channel 12. “The entire home shook.”
“The power went out,” Hatoumi added. “I thought it was very close, but I didn’t imagine it was in my home.”
“I came out to a shattered kitchen. All the windows, all the floor, the floor was filled with glass.”
Later on Sunday, dozens of explosions were reported in Houthi-held areas in Yemen, including multiple positions in the Yemeni capital city of Sana’a.
The IDF later confirmed Israeli Air Force jets had carried out the strikes, hitting multiple power stations, a fuel storage site, and the presidential palace in Sana’a.
“The strikes were carried out in response to the repeated attacks by the Houthi terror regime against the State of Israel and its citizens, including the launching of surface-to-surface missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles toward Israeli territory,” an army spokesperson said.
The spokesperson emphasized that all targets hit during Sunday’s airstrikes were used by the Houthis for military purposes, noting that the presidential palace is located within a larger military compound used by the group’s leadership for planning attacks.
The bombings are also said to have targeted storage facilities used to house ballistic missiles.
https://worldisraelnews.com/idf-bombs-presidential-palace-in-yemen-after-houthis-use-cluster-warhead-in-missile-attack/
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