Key points
- The Israeli military has carried out new airstrikes on Houthi targets in Yemen in response to recent missile attacks.
- The Houthi-led health ministry said the attacks killed four people and wounded 29 others.
- Israeli attacks have displaced around one million people.
Israel says it has bombed Houthi targets in Yemen in response to missile fires by Iran-aligned rebels at Israel over the past two days, marking another front in fighting in the Middle East.
Israeli strikes killed at least four people and wounded 29, the Houthi-run Health Ministry said in a statement, and residents said the shelling caused power outages in most of the port city of Hodeidah.
The attacks took place as Israel attacked other targets in Lebanon, where its intensified bombing over two weeks has killed a number of top Hezbollah leaders and driven hundreds of thousands of people from their homes.
In the latest wave of airstrikes, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said Israel killed at least 32 people on Sunday in Ain Deleb, in the south, and 21 people in Baalbek-Hermel, in the east, and that 14 doctors were killed in airstrikes over the past two years. days.
The Health Ministry said more than 1,000 Lebanese had been killed and 6,000 wounded in the past two weeks, without specifying how many were civilians. The government said one million people – a fifth of the population – had fled their homes.
After killing Israel vowed on Sunday to continue its attack.
“He has lost his mind and we must continue to strike Hezbollah hard,” said Israeli military chief of staff Herzi Halevi.
Hezbollah and Israel have exchanged blows across the border since the start of the war in Gaza, triggered by the October 7 attack by Hamas militants.
Meanwhile, Yemen’s Houthis have launched sporadic attacks on Israel and disrupted shipping in the Red Sea.
Two weeks ago Israel rapidly escalated its attacks against Hezbollah with the stated aim of making northern areas safe for residents to return to their homes, killing much of the group’s leadership. Israel’s defense minister is now discussing expanding the offensive.
Nasrallah’s death dealt a particularly significant blow to the group he led for 32 years, and was followed by renewed Hezbollah rocket fire on Israel, while Iran said his death would be avenged.
In Iran, which helped create Hezbollah in the early 1980s, leading figures mourned the death of a senior Revolutionary Guards member killed alongside Nasrallah, and Tehran called for a United Nations Security Council meeting United on Israel’s actions.
