Israel is signaling a wider campaign against Houthi militants in Yemen, a mountainous and impoverished country more than 1,000 miles from Israeli territory.

Israel has severely weakened Hamas and Hezbollah. Now it's going after another member of Iran's so-called axis of resistance: the Houthi rebels of Yemen.

The head of the World Health Organization said he was about to board a flight in the Yemeni capital when the airport came under bombardment.

An official says the Yemeni group will not stop until the war in Gaza ends, as Israel's PM says it is "just getting started".

The Israeli military said early on Friday that its air defence systems intercepted a missile fired from Yemen before it could reach Israeli territory. Warning sirens were triggered in several central Israeli areas due to the potential for falling debris,

An advanced U.S. military anti-missile system was used in Israel to try to intercept a projectile for the first time since President Joe Biden placed the system in Israel in October, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday.

Israel struck multiple targets in Yemen it said were controlled by Houthis, the last of the Iran-backed groups still fully engaged in the regional war that began 14 months ago.

A new round of Israeli airstrikes in Yemen have targeted the Houthi rebel-held capital of Sanaa and multiple ports.

World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was about to board a plane at the Sanaa International Airport when it came under attack. A crew member on the plane was injured, he said.

Israeli forces said the hospital "serves as a Hamas terrorist stronghold in northern Gaza" in a release about the attacks. "Following prior IDF and ISA intelligence regarding the

The operation appears to be targeting Iranian-backed militants who have been stepping up their missile fire on Israel.