{"id":17444,"date":"2025-08-25T03:04:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T03:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=17444"},"modified":"2025-08-25T03:04:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T03:04:01","slug":"israeli-strikes-in-yemens-capital-kill-two-huthis-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=17444","title":{"rendered":"Israeli strikes in Yemen’s capital kill two, Huthis say"},"content":{"rendered":"
Israel struck Yemen’s capital Sanaa on Sunday, killing at least two people, according to the country’s Iran-backed Huthi rebels who have repeatedly launched missiles and drones at Israel throughout the Gaza war.<\/p>\n

AFP images showed a large fireball lighting up the skies over the rebel-held Yemeni capital, leaving behind a column of thick, black smoke.<\/p>\n

The Huthis’ health ministry reported “two martyrs and 35 wounded” in the Israeli raid.<\/p>\n

A Huthi security source told AFP that the air raid targeted a municipal building in central Sanaa, while the group’s Al-Masirah TV reported that the two dead were in a strike on an oil company facility in the city.<\/p>\n

The channel said the targets also included a power station in Sanaa’s south that was previously hit last Sunday.<\/p>\n

The Israeli army said it had targeted Huthi military sites in Sanaa, including areas near the presidential palace, two power plants and a fuel storage facility.<\/p>\n

“The strikes were conducted in response to repeated attacks by the Huthi terrorist regime against the State of Israel and its civilians,” the military said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Late Friday, the Huthis fired a missile that Israeli authorities said had “most likely fragmented in mid-air”.<\/p>\n

Since the October 2023 start of the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip, the Huthis have repeatedly fired missiles and drones at Israel, claiming to be acting in solidarity with the Palestinians.<\/p>\n

Most of the Huthi attacks have been intercepted, but they have prompted retaliatory Israeli air strikes on rebel targets in Yemen.<\/p>\n

On August 17, Israel said it targeted an energy infrastructure site in Sanaa linked to the Huthis, with Al-Masirah reporting at the time the capital’s Haziz power station was hit.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Israel struck Yemen’s capital Sanaa on Sunday, killing at least two people, according to the country’s Iran-backed Huthi rebels who have repeatedly launched missiles and drones at Israel throughout the Gaza war. AFP images showed a large fireball lighting up the skies over the rebel-held Yemeni capital, leaving behind a column of thick, black smoke. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}