Israel strikes Houthi-controlled airport in Yemen's capital

Mohammed Hatem, Bloomberg News on May 6, 2025

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Israeli jets struck the airport in Sanaa, Yemen’s capital, on Tuesday in retaliation for a Houthi missile strike last weekend, according to Yemeni media.

Israeli forces also launched strikes on a power station in Sanaa and a cement plant around Amran, the Houthi-run Al-Masirah TV said.

Earlier in the day, the Israel Defense Forces warned people to leave the airport.

“Failure to evacuate and stay away from the place exposes you to danger,” a spokesperson for the IDF said in Arabic on X.

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to respond to a missile strike on Sunday that landed near Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport, causing some injuries.

The Israeli military said it failed to take down the missile due to a “technical issue” with an interceptor launched by air defense systems.

The Houthis have regularly fired drones and missiles toward Israel, which lies about 1,700 kilometers (1,060 miles) away from Yemen. The Iran-backed militant group, which controls Sanaa and other parts of Yemen, says its acting in solidarity with Palestinians as the Israel-Hamas war continues in Gaza.

President Donald Trump restarted U.S. strikes against the Houthis in mid-March, saying he wanted to stop them attacking commercial vessels and warships in the southern Red Sea, a key waterway for global trade.

Those strikes, and others by the U.K. as well as Israel itself, have so far failed to deter the Houthis.