It comes after President Donald Trump announced that the United States would end its attacks against the Huthis after the Iran-backed rebels agreed to stop harassing ships in the Red Sea, though he made no direct mention of recent attacks on ally Israel.
“Neither side will target the other... ensuring freedom of navigation and the smooth flow of international commercial shipping” in the Red Sea, he added in a statement posted online.
There was no official comment from the Huthis, but the rebels’ political leader Mahdi al-Mashar later promised a “painful” response to a spate of deadly Israeli strikes in retaliation for missile fire at Israel’s main airport.
The Huthis have been firing missiles and drones at Israel and ships on the vital Red Sea trade artery during the Israel-Hamas war since late 2023, saying they are acting in solidarity with the Palestinians.
“And we will honour that, and we will stop the bombings, and they have capitulated,“ he added.
Trump’s comments came just hours after Israeli warplanes put rebel-held Sanaa’s international airport out of action in a series of raids that killed three, according to the Huthis.
‘Completely destroyed’
Israel’s military said “fighter jets struck and dismantled Huthi terrorist infrastructure at the main airport in Sanaa, fully disabling the airport.”
On Tuesday, plumes of thick, black smoke were seen billowing from the Sanaa airport. Residents reported power cuts in Sanaa and Hodeida after the Israelis also struck three electricity stations in and around the capital.
“I felt like the roof of the house had caved in. It was scary.”
“Our children are terrified,“ said Umm Abdallah, a 35-year-old Sanaa resident, after Tuesday’s attacks.
Just before Tuesday’s attacks, Israel’s military urged Yemeni civilians to “immediately” evacuate the airport and “stay away from the area”, in an Arabic post on X.
The “aggression will not pass without a response and Yemen will not be discouraged from its stance in support of Gaza”, the Huthi political bureau said in a statement.
Hans Grundberg, the United Nations’ special envoy for Yemen, called the exchange of strikes between Yemen and Israel “a grave escalation in an already fragile and volatile regional context”.
Sanaa airport reopened to international flights in 2022 after a six-year blockade by the Saudi-led coalition fighting the Huthis. It offers a regular service to Jordan on the national Yemenia airline.
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