Israel strikes Yemen's main airport in Sanaa

An Israeli airstrike has struck the Sanaa International Airport successful Yemen's capital, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has confirmed.

Earlier successful the day, the IDF asked radical to evacuate the airport, informing that "failure to evacuate and enactment distant from the country puts you successful danger." This comes a time aft Israeli strikes connected targets successful the neighbouring metropolis of Hudaydah.

The attacks followed the Yemeni Houthi group's rocket that landed adjacent Israel's main airdrome connected Sunday.

Israel has launched respective rounds of strikes against the Iran-backed radical successful Yemen, including the targeting of a powerfulness works and ports successful January. Israel antecedently carried retired a onslaught connected Sanaa's airdrome past December.

The IDF connected Monday said it attacked Houthi targets successful the Hudaydah Port and the Bajil cement mill eastbound of the metropolis of Hudaydah.

It claimed that the larboard was utilized by the radical arsenic a "central proviso source", and for "the transportation of Iranian weapons", portion the cement mill functioned arsenic a "significant economical resource", and was utilized by the radical to conception tunnels and infrastructure.

The larboard is the second-largest successful the Red Sea aft Aden, and is the introduction constituent for astir 80% of Yemen's nutrient imports.

A spokesperson for the Houthi-run wellness ministry, Anees al-Asbahi, said astatine slightest 21 radical were injured successful the attack.

The Houthis blamed the US and Israel jointly for the attack, but a US defence authoritative told the AFP quality bureau that their forces "did not participate" successful the strikes connected Yemen.

The rocket fired towards Ben Gurion airdrome adjacent Tel Aviv connected Sunday greeting landed adjacent to an entree roadworthy adjacent the main terminal. Six radical were injured, Israeli exigency services said.

Following the strike, the Houthis said they would enforce "a broad aerial blockade" connected Israel by targeting airports successful effect to Israel's plans to grow its subject operations successful Gaza.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed retaliation against the Houthis for the airdrome attack, saying: "We attacked successful the past, we volition onslaught successful the future."