...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is
God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the JewsThey like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
terror regime" near the Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
i capital of Sanaa this morning.
The strike was carried out by Israeli Navy missile boats, according to a defense official. Explosions were reported earlier at a power plant in the area.
"The strikes were conducted in response to repeated attacks by the Houthi terrorist regime against the State of Israel and its citizens, including the launching of surface-to-surface missiles and UAVs toward Israeli territory," the IDF says.
Since the last Israeli strike on Yemen on July 21, the Iran-backed Houthis have launched at least seven ballistic missiles and seven drones at Israel.
المشاهد الأولى للانفجارات العنيفة التي هزت #صنعاء وسط أنباء عن غارات إسرائيلية استهدفت محطة كهرباء "حزيز"
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The first scenes of the violent explosions that shook #Sanaa amid reports of Israeli airstrikes targeting the "Haziz" power station
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Yemeni sources said that a violent explosion occurred at the Haziz power plant south of Sana'a, coinciding with two air raids on the area.
Eyewitnesses said that a huge fire broke out inside the power plant, which led to a tople power outage from the area that witnessed the explosions.
Yemeni activists and journalists suggested that the explosions were caused by Israeli raids, while this was not confirmed by any official authority or by Israel.
In the first reaction of the Houthi militia, a member of the political bureau of the Assad belt: “A criminal and bankrupt enemy that only targets service facilities,” in charges apparently of Israel of launching raids.