Kinshasa, August 24th, 2025 (CPA). – The Israeli army has claimed on Sunday to have bombed several sites in and around the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, which is under the control of the Houthi rebellion, have reported the international media.
‘The strikes have been carried out in response to repeated attacks by the Houthi terrorist regime against the State of Israel and its civilians,’ has written the Israeli army. A military zone near the presidential palace, two power plants and a hydrocarbon storage site are among the targets mentioned by Israel – several videos of these locations circulating on social media since early Sunday afternoon showed large explosions at the sites. ‘The use of these installations is a further proof of how the Houthi regime uses civilian infrastructures for military purposes,’ it has added.
A Houthi security source has declared that the attack had targeted « the municipal security building in the centre of Sanaa. » According to the same source, several strikes have targeted an oil company station on Al-Sittine Street and a power plant in southern Sanaa, which had already been bombed by Israel a week ago. A preliminary toll reports two dead and five wounded following the Israeli attack on a petrol station in Sanaa. The deputy director of the Houthi press service has written on his social media that the Israeli strikes would not dissuade the rebels and has promised to continue their attacks against Israel.
‘Our military operations in support of Gaza will not stop, God willing, until the aggression ceases and the siege is lifted,’ has declared Nasruddin Amer, deputy director of the Houthi press service. Fragmentation missile On Saturday evening, the Israeli army had issued several alerts from its air defence system after detecting a missile coming from Yemen. The projectile was equipped at its head with a fragmentation missile, which separates into several parts and causes multiple explosions. This is the first of its kind to be fired by the Houthis at Israel, according to an Israeli Air Force official. It split in the air before hitting Israeli soil, causing no casualties.
Iran had used a missile of this type during the ‘twelve-day war’ with Israel in June, according to the same source. The Houthi attacks over the past two years have disturbed maritime traffic in the Red Sea, through which approximately $1 trillion of goods are transported each year. From November 2023 to December 2024, the Houthis have targeted more than 100 ships with missiles and drones. The rebels have ceased their attacks during a brief ceasefire in the war, before becoming the target of an intense campaign of air strikes ordered by US President Donald Trump, which has lasted several weeks. In May, the United States have announced an agreement with the Houthis to end the air strikes in exchange for an end to attacks on ships, although the rebel group has declared that the agreement does not include stopping attacks on targets it considers to be aligned with Israel. CPA/