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Sinar Daily
2 days ago
- Politics
- Sinar Daily
Israeli strikes destroy last plane at Yemen's Sanaa airport
The plane was about to be boarded by Muslim pilgrims bound for the annual hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. 30 May 2025 10:45am A destroyed airplane lies on the tarmac at Sanaa International Airport on May 29, 2025, in the aftermath of an Israeli military strike. Israeli air strikes blew up the last remaining plane at Yemen's international airport, Israel and a Yemeni official said on May 28, 2025. - (Photo by MOHAMMED HUWAIS / AFP) SANAA - Israeli air strikes blew up the last remaining plane at rebel-held Yemen's international airport, Israel and a Yemeni official said on Wednesday, weeks after an earlier attack inflicted major damage. An air raid involving multiple strikes hit the Yemenia Airways plane and the runway at Sanaa airport, the Huthi rebels' Al-Masirah TV channel posted on X, decrying "Israeli aggression". Thick black smoke was seen billowing from a stricken plane on the tarmac, in a video posted on X by Sanaa airport director Khaled al-Shaief who said it was Yemenia's last operational aircraft. The airport had only resumed limited commercial services on May 17, according to Huthi authorities, after it was closed by a heavy Israeli attack that destroyed six planes 11 days earlier. The Huthis, claiming solidarity with the Palestinians, have been firing on Israel and Red Sea shipping throughout the Gaza war, prompting reprisal strikes from Israel as well as the United States and Britain. Israel's Defence Minister Israel Katz said fighter jets targeted Huthi "terror targets" at the airport, a day after the group fired two projectiles at Israel. "Air Force jets have just struck terror targets of the Huthi terrorist organisation at the airport in Sanaa and destroyed the last aircraft remaining," he said in a statement. An Israeli military statement said aircraft there "were used by the Huthi terrorist organisation for the transfer of terrorists who advanced terrorist attacks against the state of Israel". According to a statement from Yemenia, the plane was about to be boarded by Muslim pilgrims bound for the annual hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Destroyed airplanes lie on the tarmac at Sanaa International Airport on May 29, 2025, in the aftermath of an Israeli military strike. Israeli air strikes blew up the last remaining plane at Yemen's international airport, Israel and a Yemeni official said on May 28, 2025. - (Photo by MOHAMMED HUWAIS / AFP) - 'Fragile situation' - The Huthis began their attacks on shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden in November 2023, weeks after the start of the Israel-Hamas war, prompting British and US military strikes beginning in January 2024. Earlier this month, the United States agreed a ceasefire with the Huthis, ending weeks of intense American strikes on rebel-held areas. However, the Huthis have continued to fire frequent projectiles at Israel, including strikes targeting Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv. Earlier this month, Israel threatened to target the Huthi leadership. United Nations special envoy Hans Grundberg warned in a statement that clashes between the Huthis and Israel are "exacerbating an already very fragile situation for Yemen and the region". The Huthis had earlier paused their attacks during a two-month ceasefire in Gaza that collapsed in March. The rebels have been at war with a Saudi-led coalition since 2015 in a conflict that has caused hundreds of thousands of deaths and triggered a major humanitarian crisis in Yemen, although fighting has decreased significantly since a UN-negotiated six-month truce in 2022. That year the airport, closed for six years during the war, reopened to commercial flights and has offered services to and from Amman in Jordan. - AFP
Saba Yemen
2 days ago
- Politics
- Saba Yemen
Press Conference on Israeli Attack on Sana'a Airport
Sana'a (Saba) – The Ministries of Transport and Public Works and Justice and Human Rights held a press conference today at Sana'a International Airport regarding the Israeli attack on Sana'a Airport and the targeting of a Yemenia civilian plane carrying pilgrims and patients. At the press conference, Ali Tasir, head of the Human Rights Sector at the Ministry of Justice, emphasized that targeting civilian airports and aircraft carrying civilians, including patients and pilgrims, constitutes a violation of international humanitarian law. He said, "The Israeli enemy is committing war crimes and genocide against the Yemeni people amid shameful international and Arab silence." Whatsapp Telegram Email Print
Saba Yemen
2 days ago
- Politics
- Saba Yemen
Iranian FM condemns Zionist aggression on Yemen
Tehran - Saba: The Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs strongly condemned the new Zionist aggression targeting Sana'a International Airport and the destruction of a Yemenia passenger plane, describing it as "a new indication of the Zionist regime's barbarism and hostility toward the Muslim Yemeni people and the region." In a statement, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei described the Zionist regime's aggression during the Hajj season, aimed at preventing Yemeni pilgrims from reaching the holy lands and participating in the Hajj rituals, as a major crime. He called for immediate and serious action by international organizations, especially the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), regarding this situation. The Foreign Ministry spokesman pointed to the Zionist regime's repeated attacks on Yemen's economic infrastructure and civilian facilities, including ports, airports, food warehouses, and the like. He dubbed these attacks as a clear example of war crimes and crimes against humanity. He added that the Zionist regime's brutal aggression toward the Muslim peoples of West Asia is clear evidence of its structural and fundamental disconnection from the peoples of the region, and its leaders' efforts to spread wars and insecurity in the region and the world. Baghaei highlighted the legal and moral responsibility of all countries in the region and the world to confront the Zionist entity's violations of the law and its crimes in occupied Palestine and against other countries in the region. Baghaei stressed that the Zionist entity's impunity, due to the inaction of the United Nations Security Council and the comprehensive American support for this entity, has led to irreversible consequences for the system based on the UN Charter and has jeopardized international peace and security in an unprecedented manner, requiring urgent action from the international community. Whatsapp Telegram Email Print
Al Jazeera
3 days ago
- General
- Al Jazeera
Video: Israeli attack in Yemen destroys airline's ‘last plane'
NewsFeed Video: Israeli attack in Yemen destroys airline's 'last plane' Officials in Yemen say an Israeli attack on Sanaa airport has destroyed the last passenger plane operated by the country's main airline, Yemenia Airways.
News18
3 days ago
- Politics
- News18
"Houthis Under Aerial Blockade..." IDF Destroys Yemen Flagship Carrier's Last Plane At Sanaa Airport
Israel says it has destroyed the last remaining plane used by the Houthis at the Sanaa International Airport in Yemen. The Houthi-affiliated Al-Masirah television channel reported that multiple strikes had hit an aircraft and the runway at the facilityThe Sanaa airport said the Israeli strikes had destroyed the last plane belonging to the country's flagship carrier Yemenia. The Houthis 'will be under naval and aerial blockade, as we promised and warned. Anyone who harms us will be harmed sevenfold,' Israel Katz, Israeli Defense Minister, said in a statement. 00:00 INTRODUCTION01:46: "HOUTHIS UNDER AERIAL BLOCKADE" 04:18: "HOUTHIS JUST A SYMPTOM" NETANYAHU WARNS IRANn18oc_world n18oc_crux
