SANA’A, (Palestine Foundation Information Center ) At least four people were killed and 71 others wounded on Sunday afternoon after Israeli airstrikes hit several locations in the Yemeni capital Sana’a, according to local health authorities.
Multiple casualties were reported at a gas station run by the Yemeni Petroleum Company, which was one of several sites targeted in the city. Medical sources warned that the death toll could rise as several victims were brought to hospitals in critical condition.
Fire crews were working to extinguish blazes triggered by the strikes in the south and west of Sana’a, the Yemeni civil defense authority said in a statement.
Local residents said the strikes hit the presidential palace, the Capital Secretariat building, the state oil company building, fuel depots, and power stations in central, southern and southwestern parts of the city.
Israeli war minister Yisrael Katz announced in a statement that airstrikes were carried out in Yemen.
The Israeli occupation army said the bombed sites included the presidential palace, the Aser and Hizyaz power plants, and a fuel storage facility.
Israeli state-owned Kan TV reported that 14 warplanes took part in the attack, dropping about 40 bombs on Sana’a.
In a statement, Yemen’s Ansarullah group accused the Israeli occupation of carrying out “brutal aggression” against civilian facilities and held both Israel and the US responsible for what it described as a “heinous crime.”
The strikes came two days after Yemen’s armed forces fired another hypersonic ballistic missile at Tel Aviv, damaging houses with shrapnel but causing no reported casualties.
Yemen’s armed forces say their repeated missile and drone counterattacks on Israeli targets are aimed to pressure the Israeli occupation government to end its genocidal war on Gaza and lift its siege on the population.
