9 killed as Israel hits Yemen’s Houthis a day after it targeted Hamas in Qatar

Israel struck the Yemeni capital Sanaa and the northern province of al-Jawf on Wednesday, with the Houthi health ministry saying it killed nine people and wounded 118 others in an initial toll.

The strikes are the latest in a series of attacks and counterstrikes between Israel and Houthi militants in Yemen, part of a spillover from the war in Gaza.

A large plume of grey smoke billowed above Sanaa as the sound of the attacks echoed across the city, controlled by the Iran-backed Houthis for more than a decade.

“Martyrs, wounded, and several homes damaged as a result of the Israeli attack on the Moral Guidance Headquarters,” Houthi-run Al Masirah TV reported.

The Israeli military said it struck Houthi rebel targets in Yemen, including in Sanaa, in the latest of a series of attacks during the Gaza war.

“A short while ago, the IAF [Israeli air force] struck military targets belonging to the Houthi terrorist regime in the areas of Sanaa and Al-Jawf in Yemen,” an Israeli military statement said.