The Yemeni Ministry of Health confirmed on Friday that the death toll from Israeli air attacks in Sanaa on Thursday rose to nine, including two women and four children, with at least 174 people injured.
Rescue squads continue to search for survivors in the devastated areas of the capital, the eastern and western districts.
The Ministry of Electric Power reported that Israeli fighters also attacked the Durban Power Plant and the Directorate of Renewable Energy, killing ministry employees and injuring four other people. In the statement, he condemned the “continued Israeli targeting of civilian facilities” and emphasized that repeated attacks on energy infrastructure constitute war crimes and blatant violations of international law.
The Israeli assault came the day after Yemeni drone strike crashed into a southern city in Eilat on Wednesday, injuring at least 20 Israelis and affected a central shopping area near the hotel.
Sanaa officials said the escalation was intended to pressure Yemen to abandon its support for Gaza, but vowed to continue the operation until Israeli occupation halted the attack and lifted the lockdown. “Attacks on Yemen will only increase resilience and determination to support Palestinians and their heroic resistance,” the government declared.
Later on Thursday, Yemeni forces announced a “qualitative military operation” using multiple wars Palestinian 2 Hi-sonic missiles against sensitive sites in the occupied Jaffa region. They said the strike “had millions of Zionists fled to shelters and temporarily closed the LOD airport.
Yemeni leadership emphasized that the struggle was inseparable from that of Gaza, pledging further operations “at an escalating pace” until the siege broke.