Israel launches major strike on Yemen’s Houthi rebels

Fire and black smoke was seen rising from Yemen’s Hodeidah after Israel said it bombed Houthi targets on Sunday (September 29) in response to missile fire by the Iran-aligned militants at Israel over the past two days, marking another front in fighting in the Middle East. READ MORE: The Israeli strikes killed at least four people and wounded 29, the Houthi-run Health Ministry said in a statement, and residents said the bombing had caused power outages in most parts of the port city of Hodeidah. Israel’s military said in a statement that dozens of aircraft, including fighter jets, had attacked power plants and a sea port in Hodeidah and the port of Ras Issa. It was the second such Israeli attack on Yemen in just over two months. In July, Israeli warplanes struck Houthi military targets near Hodeidah after a Yemeni drone hit Tel Aviv and killed one man. Read the best of our journalism: