Key Points
- The Israeli army carried out new airstrikes on Houthi targets in Yemen in response to recent missile attacks.
- It comes as Israel continued to pound Lebanon after killing the Hezbollah leader
- The Israeli strikes have killed over 1,000 people in Lebanon and displaced about a million people.
Israel says it has bombed Houthi targets in Yemen in response to missile fire by the Iran-aligned rebels at Israel over the past two days, marking another front in fighting in the Middle East.
The Israeli strikes killed at least four people and wounded 29, the Houthi-run Health Ministry said in a statement, and residents said the bombing had caused power outages in most parts of the port city of Hodeidah.
The strikes took place as Israel attacked more targets in Lebanon, where its intensifying bombardment over two weeks has killed a string of top Hezbollah leaders and driven hundreds of thousands of people from their homes.
In their latest wave of air strikes, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said Israel had killed at least 32 people in Ain Deleb in the south on Sunday and 21 people in Baalbek-Hermel in the east and that 14 medics had been killed in air strikes over the past two days.
The Health Ministry said more than 1,000 Lebanese have been killed and 6,000 wounded in the past two weeks, without saying how many were civilians. The government said a million people — a fifth of the population — had fled their homes.
After killing , Israel on Sunday vowed to keep up its assault.
“It has lost its head, and we need to keep hitting Hezbollah hard,” Israel’s military chief of staff Herzi Halevi said.
Hezbollah and Israel have been trading fire across the border since the start of the war in Gaza, which was triggered by the October 7 attack by Hamas militants.
Yemen’s Houthis have launched sporadic attacks on Israel throughout that time and disrupted Red Sea shipping.
Israel rapidly ramped up its attacks on Hezbollah two weeks ago with the declared goal 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 widening the offensive.
Nasrallah’s death dealt a particularly significant blow to the group which he led for 32 years, and it was followed by new Hezbollah rocket fire on Israel, while Iran said his death would be avenged.
In Iran, which helped create Hezbollah in the early 1980s, senior figures mourned the death of a senior Revolutionary Guards member killed alongside Nasrallah, and Tehran called for a UN Security Council meeting on Israel’s actions.
