Initial reports: airstrikes target Sanaa, Yemen

Published May 22nd, 2025 - 07:48 GMT
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This handout satellite image taken and released by Maxar Technologies on May 7, 2025 shows the destroyed main terminal and control tower at Sanaa International Airport in Sanaa, Yemen. AFP PHOTO/ SATELLITE IMAGE ©2025 MAXAR TECHNOLOGIES

ALBAWABA - initial reports claimed that airstrikes were reported in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, Israeli news outlet Ynet said on Thursday.

A video allegedly showing smoke rising into the sky and a person in the background saying "they attacked Sanaa Airport" was posted on the X platform. 

In the clip shared online, a person was saying that an airstrike targeted Sanaa Airport, and then he turned the camera as travellers were seen next to a plane. 

The Houthi group announced on Thursday the implementation of a special military operation in support of the Palestinian people and in rejection of the "genocide committed by the Zionist enemy against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip."

Yahya Saree, spokesman for the Houthi-run Yemeni armed forces, said in a statement that "its missile force carried out an operation targeting Ben Gurion Airport, in the occupied Jaffa region, using a Zulfiqar ballistic missile."

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