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Yemen's capital Sanaa hit by air strike
2024-12-28
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The capital of Yemen, Sana'a, was hit by an airstrike on December 27. Powerful explosions thundered in the city, Al Arabiya reported.

The strike targeted Sanaa airport and other vital facilities in the city itself and in the coastal province of Hodeidah, including two power plants and an oil port.

As reported by Regnum News Agency, Yemeni Houthis launched a Palestine-2 hypersonic ballistic missile attack on an Israeli military facility in the Tel Aviv area on December 16. According to Houthi spokesman Yahya Saria, this was a response to Israel's ongoing attacks on Palestine.

Since then, Sana'a has been repeatedly hit. The Yemeni capital was subjected to a massive airstrike on December 22. In addition, on December 26, the Israel Defense Forces carried out a series of airstrikes on Sana'a.

At the time, the head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, was at the airport in the capital of Yemen. He was not injured. According to the Houthis, six people were killed and 40 more were injured.

Saria reported on December 27 that the Houthis had launched a hypersonic ballistic missile attack on Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv. The airport's operations were suspended.
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Posted by:badanov

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Posted by: badanov   2024-12-28 21:25  

#4  'I wasn't sure I could survive' Israeli attack on Yemen's Sana'a Airport, WHO chief says
Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus reported that the explosions happened very close to where he was sitting.

Drama Queen
Posted by: Frank G   2024-12-28 08:10  

#3  If the Israeli attackers really want to hurt the Houthis they should fire-bomb the Khat fields...
Posted by: 3dc   2024-12-28 06:53  

#2  80 years ago today AP news item 28 Dec 1944
Moscow - Doomed Nazi garrison reeled backwards in the smoke-fill streets of western Budapest today but clung with suicidal resistance to positions in the eastern section of the capital... "The Russians are now attacking from the southeast, northeast and west," the broadcast said.)
The German and Hungarian defenders were reported to have already been denied the use of one of the two remaining airports Please turn to Page Three
Posted by: Elmaper+McGurque1612   2024-12-28 05:43  

#1  Israeli airstrikes hit a Yemen airport as a jet with hundreds onboard was landing, UN official says
Of course, left unstated is why that particular Yemen airport is still open for business & was not (some months ago) put out of commission permanently and completely. Does Houthi held territory still have an operating electric grid? Etc.
Posted by: Elmaper+McGurque1612   2024-12-28 05:31  

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