The Israeli military said it intercepted a missile launched from Yemen early Saturday, a day after the Houthi-held capital Sanaa was hit by fresh airstrikes. Sirens sounded in areas of Jerusalem and the Dead Sea on Saturday as "a missile launched from Yemen was intercepted ... prior to crossing into Israeli territory," the Israeli military said.

After multiple air raids targeted Yemen's Sanaa airport in December 2024, which the Iran-backed Huthi rebels blamed on Israel, a photo of smoke billowing from a runway ricocheted worldwide in social media posts that falsely depicted it as showing the recent attack.

Yemeni Armed Forces targeted Israeli sites, including the Ben Gurion airport, and a US carrier as Sanaa endured US-British airstrikes.

Israel has severely weakened Hamas and Hezbollah. Now it's going after another member of Iran's so-called axis of resistance: the Houthi rebels of Yemen.

The latest round of strikes occurred as the United States and its ally Israel struggle to halt a campaign of regional assaults by Yemen’s Houthi militants.

World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was about to board a plane at the Sanaa International Airport when it came under attack. A crew member on the plane was injured, he said.

There was no immediate comment from Israel, the United States or Britain. The damaged control tower of Sanaa Airport stands, following an Israeli airstrike in Sana'a, Yemen, Dec 27, 2024.

Israel’s army later told The Associated Press it wasn’t ... it attacked infrastructure used by the Iran-backed Houthis at the international airport in Sanaa and ports in Hodeida, Al-Salif and Ras Qantib, along with power stations, asserting they ...

An advanced U.S. military anti-missile system was used in Israel to try to intercept a projectile for the first time since President Joe Biden placed the system in Israel in October, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday.

An official says the Yemeni group will not stop until the war in Gaza ends, as Israel's PM says it is "just getting started".

The day before, a fresh air strike hit Sanaa, which Huthi rebels blamed on "US-British aggression" though it remains unclear who was behind it. There was no comment from Israel, the United ...

A new round of Israeli airstrikes in Yemen on Thursday targeted the Houthi rebel-held capital and multiple ports, while the World Health Organization’s director-general said