Conflict in the Middle East: Israel’s Air Force places Airport in Yemen Lahm

Two days after the Huthi rocket attack on Tel Aviver Airport, Israel’s Air Force has bombed an important airport in Yemen. The Huthi-related TV station Al-Masirah reported several attacks on the international airport in Sanaa. Three people were killed and 38 people were injured.

The broadcaster spoke of attacks by Israel and the USA. A cement factory and a power plant near the airport were also attacked. The Huthi threatened that the attacks would not remain unanswered, as it was said in a statement by the political office of the proiran militia. The United States initially did not comment on the attacks.

Israel’s army: Airport fully paralyzed

Israel’s army announced that the Air Force had attacked and destroyed the infrastructure of the Huthi militia at the airport in Sanaa in response to attacking the airport on Sunday in Tel Aviv. The airport was fully paralyzed. Starting and landingways and aircraft were also hit. “Similar to the port of Hudaida attacked yesterday, the Huthi terrorist organization airport served as a central hub for the transport of weapons and members.”

The Israeli military also attacked several important power plants in the Sanaa area. The Huthi also used them for their purposes. Another goal was a concrete factory that the militia needs, for example, for the construction of tunnels.

Israeli Minister of Defense Israel Katz said about the attack in Yemen that this was also a warning to Tehran and spoke of the “Iranian octopus”. Katz threatened: “You are responsible for every attack by the Huthi octopus -poor attack on the state of Israel – and you will also bear the consequences for it.”

Airplanes destroyed and damaged

Sources at the airport confirmed the German press agency that flight operations were stopped. Two planes were destroyed. Another was damaged. A total of only four machines are in use at the airport. One of them was in the Jordan capital Amman at the time of the attacks and initially did not return because of the attacks.

The UN special envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, described the recent attacks between the Huthi-Miliz in Yemen and the Israeli military as a dangerous escalation.

Israel’s army demanded evacuation of the airport in Sanaa

A spokesman for the Israeli military had previously called up all “those present in the area of ​​international airport” in Sanaa to leave the airport site immediately. There are several residential areas around the airport.

Israel had already attacked dozens of Huthi in the country on Monday evening. According to the Ministry of Health controlled by the Huthi, there were at least four deaths and 35 injuries.

A rocket of the Huthi militia was hit near the Tel Aviver Airport Ben Gurion in Israel on Sunday. Israel then threatened retribution.

Israel previously attacked the airport in Sanaa

The US military has been attacking the Huthi militia in Yemen for months, with the declared goal of protecting international shipping in the Red Sea. The Huthi always attack commercial and military ships there and only want to end these attacks at the end of the Gaza War between Israel and the Hamas, which is also supported by Iran.

Israel’s Air Force has also attacked several times in Yemen since the GAZA War outbreak. At the end of December, the military had already shot the airport in Sanaa.

The Huthi militia controls large areas in the north of the country, including the capital Sanaa and the port city of Hudaida. Since Israel’s army resumed the attacks in the Gaza Strip on March 18, the Huthi militia has also been firing with the Islamist Hamas regularly shot towards Israel.

Hamas: Talks about Gaza caving rest have no sense

The Islamist terrorist group Hamas considers further conversations with Israel to be futile about a new ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and the release of hostages. “In view of the hunger war that Israel leads in the Gaza Strip, negotiations or dealing with new proposals have no sense,” said Basim Naim, high -ranking member of the Hamas Politburos. He left open whether Hamas wants to resume talks with Israel if Israel ends the blockade of aid deliveries that has been going on for around two months.

Israel accuses the Hamas to pick up the relief goods and to sell them profitably to the civilian population in order to finance their members and weapons.

Israel’s finance minister threatens Gazas with “total destruction”

The right -wing extremist Israeli Finance Minister Bezhalel Smotrich meanwhile threatened a complete destruction of the Gaza Strip and the expulsion of the residents. Smotrich spoke at a settler conference in the West Bank and answered the question of how a victory in the Gaza War looked for him: “Gaza totally destroyed.” He described the coastal strip as “a single large terrorist infrastructure, above and underground”.

The residents should be concentrated in a “humanitarian zone” in the far of the coastal strip, south of the former Israeli settlement Morag, Smotrich. From there, the residents should then leave the Gaza strip in large numbers and go to third countries. There will be no Hamas in the Gaza Strip within half a year, said the minister. The organization will then “stop working as a military or civilian structure”.

According to the government’s will, the Israeli army should conquer the Gaza Strip and keep it occupied. Tens of thousands of reservists are mobilized for the large -scale offensive.