Israel’s air force has struck different targets across Yemen, including Sanaa International Airport, saying that it targeted transport links that help Iran supply the Houthis, Al Arabiya News’ Tel Aviv Correspondent Trent Murray says.
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00:00Israel has hit Houthi militants and infrastructure today.
00:03Can you share more details about the scale of the operation
00:07and what Israeli warplanes have targeted?
00:10Yeah, that's right.
00:11They very quickly acknowledged that it was indeed IDF planes
00:16that hit those targets,
00:17putting out a fairly lengthy statement
00:19explaining that they were targeting
00:21what they said was Houthi infrastructure.
00:23Now we know that Sana'a International Airport
00:26in the capital there was targeted.
00:29We also know energy facilities were targeted
00:32as well as several key ports,
00:34including the main one of Hodeidah.
00:36Now what the Israelis are saying
00:37is that they were targeting those,
00:40particularly transport links,
00:42because they say that Iran is using them
00:44to smuggle weapons into Yemen,
00:47including ballistic missiles,
00:48which the Houthi themselves have been firing
00:51towards Israel in fairly large numbers,
00:54I have to say, in recent days,
00:56which is why we had been expecting
00:59a fairly large-scale response was coming,
01:02and we certainly saw it today.
01:03We understand three people were killed,
01:06according to Houthi media, 17 injured,
01:09and also a very high-profile person
01:12happened to be at Sana'a International Airport
01:14when they struck.
01:15It was the Director General of the World Health Organization,
01:18of course, the UN's health body.
01:20He has tweeted that he is safe,
01:22but one member of his team was injured.
01:26He has tweeted that he is safe,
01:28but one member of his team was injured.
01:30He has tweeted that he is safe,
01:32but one member of his team was injured.
01:34He has tweeted that he is safe,
01:36but one member of his team was injured.
01:38He has tweeted that he is safe,
01:40but one member of his team was injured.
01:42He has tweeted that he is safe,
01:44but one member of his team was injured.
01:46He has tweeted that he is safe,
01:48but one member of his team was injured.
01:50He has tweeted that he is safe,
01:52but one member of his team was injured.