The air assault, Israel’s fourth in Yemen over the past year, comes a week after Israeli fighter jets flew more than 1,000 miles to bomb sites in the country, including in Sana and on the port city of Salif. The Israeli military said it had struck infrastructure like power plants, as well as fuel and oil tanks.

Israel hits Houthi targets across Yemen with air strikes including at airport - Head of the WHO said he was at airport when it was struck by Israeli forces targeting Houthi rebels

The strikes targeting the airport, military facilities and power stations followed rising hostilities between Israel and the Huthis, part of Iran's 'axis of resistance' alliance against Israel.

The Israeli military said the airstrikes targeted infrastructure that the Houthis have used to bring Iranian weapons and officials into Yemen.

U.S. was apprised in advance of the retaliatory strike against the Iran-backed terrorist group that's been firing rockets at Israel for the past 14 months.

The head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said he was at Yemen's Sanaa airport when it was hit by Israeli air strikes.

Iran's foreign ministry condemned Thursday Israeli strikes on targets of Tehran-allied Huthi rebels in Yemen as a "violation" of peace and security.

Israel's military said it struck multiple targets linked to the Iran-aligned Houthi movement in Yemen on Thursday, including Sana’a International Airport and three ports along the western coast.

The Israel Defence Forces claim they have struck multiple “Houthi terrorist” targets in Yemen on Thursday, including the airport in the capital Sanaa and three ports along the western coast. Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, was in Sanaa airport at the time of the attack.

Israel`s military conducted airstrikes on Houthi targets in Yemen, responding to recent attacks. The strikes targeted military infrastructure on Yemen`s west coast and inland.

Houthi rebels in Yemen say Israeli airstrikes have targeted the rebel-held capital of Sanaa and the port city of Hodeida.