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SvennoJ on 13 April 2025
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Houthis claim launch of two ballistic missiles at Israel

Earlier, we reported the Israeli army announcing that air raid sirens sounded in different parts of the country.

The spokesperson for Yemen’s Houthi fighters has now put out a statement regarding the firing of missiles towards Israel.

Here are his translated comments:

  • “We carried out a qualitative military operation with two ballistic missiles targeting the Zionist enemy.”
  • “We targeted Ben Gurion Airport in the occupied Jaffa area with a Zulfiqar missile.”
  • “We targeted the Sdot Micha base and the Arrow batteries east of Ashdod with a Palestine 2 missile.”
  • “We bombed a vital Israeli enemy target in the occupied Ashkelon area with a drone.”
  • “The Israeli enemy, along with the Americans, must realise that Yemen, its leadership, people, and army, will not back down from supporting and backing the Palestinian people, regardless of the repercussions.”


Five killed in US strike on Yemen’s Sanaa province

Yemen’s Ministry of Health and Environment says five people were killed and 13 wounded by three US air strikes on a factory in Bani Matar District, west of the capital Sanaa.

The Houthi-affiliated media Al Masirah reported that two US raids also targeted the al-Yatmah area in Khab and al-Sha’af District in al-Jawf governate, northern Yemen.


Houthis say US drone shot down in northwestern Yemen

We have been reporting on US strikes on Yemen that have killed at least five people.

The Houthi group in Yemen has now put out a statement addressing the US attacks, saying that an American MQ-9 drone was shot down in the airspace of Hajjah governorate by a locally made surface-to-air missile.

Hezbollah cedes most military sites in south Lebanon to the army: Report

The AFP news agency is reporting that most military sites belonging to Hezbollah in southern Lebanon have been placed under the Lebanese army’s control.

The agency cited a source close to the Lebanese armed group. “Out of 265 Hezbollah military positions identified south of the Litani, the movement has ceded about 190 to the army,” the source was quoted as saying.

The ceasefire deal that ended more than a year of conflict between Hezbollah and Israel, including two months of full-blown war, states that only UN peacekeepers and Lebanon’s army should be deployed in the south.

It also mandates Israel to withdraw all of its troops from Lebanon.

But Israel has kept soldiers on five hilltops inside southern Lebanon and has continued to launch air attacks across the country, including the capital, Beirut, claiming it is targeting Hezbollah fighters and weapons caches.