SANA’A (Palestine Foundation Information Center) US forces renewed aggression on several areas in Yemen on Thursday, causing more casualties and destruction.
Yemeni media outlets reported that the new US airstrikes targeted Al-Asayed area in Al-Safra district in Sa’ada governorate in northern Yemen, and the cotton gin in Hodeidah, and targeted the capital Sana’a, as well.
On Wednesday evening, US aircraft launched a series of raids on the capital Sana’a and the provinces of Sa’ada, al-Bayda and al-Jawf, causing casualties and material damage to property.
US officials have said that the military campaign on Yemen could last for weeks.
In response to the US strikes, the Yemeni armed forces announced on Wednesday that they had targeted the US aircraft carrier Harry Truman in the Red Sea with missiles and drones for the fourth time.
They also fired two missiles at the “Israeli occupation entity” at dawn Thursday and on Tuesday.
“The missile force carried out a qualitative military operation targeting Ben Gurion Airport in the occupied Jaffa region with a hypersonic ballistic missile of the “Palestine 2” type, and this operation successfully achieved its goal,” said the military spokesman for the Yemeni armed forces, Yahya Saree.
Later, the Israeli ambulance service announced that 13 people were injured while heading to shelters after sirens were activated after the detection of a missile fired from Yemen.
Israeli media said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was evacuated from the Knesset to a protected area after sirens sounded in Jerusalem, where he was participating in the Knesset plenary session preparing to vote on a budget bill for 2025.
Earlier, the so-called Israeli Home Front said that sirens sounded in the areas of Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and central Israel (1948 occupied Palestine) after a missile was detected fired from Yemen.
Hebrew Channel 12 reported that the Yemeni missile crossed the border, and that a plane coming from London en route to Ben Gurion Airport changed its course at the last moment after sirens sounded in Tel Aviv.
Yemeni forces run by the Ansar Allah group occasionally launched rocket and drone attacks on Israel -some of which have targeted Tel Aviv- in solidarity with Gaza before the group halted its attacks when the Gaza ceasefire went into effect on January 19.
The United States began airstrikes on Yemeni targets on Saturday, saying the operation aims to restore freedom of navigation in the region’s sea lanes.
Dozens of airstrikes and missile strikes killed more than 50 people in Sana’a and other Yemeni provinces.
The US attacks on Yemen began shortly after Yemeni forces announced the resumption of their operations against Israeli ships in the region’s sea lanes in response to Israel’s resumption of its aggression on Gaza
