Israeli Planes Drop 30 Bombs on Yemen

Israeli warplanes struck the Yemeni capital Sana and the Al Jawf Governorate with 30 bombs killing nine people and injuring 118 according to the Yemeni Health Ministry, Wednesday.

It was described as a massive attack in which 10 Israeli warplanes struck 15 Yemeni targets.

The aggression on Sana’a targeted a medical station on 60th Street, southwest of Sana’a, the Moral Guidance Dept., of the Defence Ministry and the headquarters of the “26 September” and “Al-Yaman” newspapers.

A senior official source said the attack on the “26 September” newspaper resulted in the death and injury of a number of male and female journalists.

In Al-Jawf, northeast of the country, the Israeli aggression targeted a government complex in Al-Hazm District.

Yemeni Armed Forces spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Saree stated, “Our air defenses were able to launch a number of surface-to-air missiles while confronting the Zionist aggression against our country.”

Sare’i added in a social media post some combat formations were forced to leave before carrying out their aggression, thwarting the bulk of the attack as reported in almayadeen.

Sare’i denied the Israeli occupation’s allegations of targeting missile launchers, asserting its raids targeted purely civilian targets.

He emphasized this brutal aggression will not pass without a military response.

An Israeli Air Force source told Israeli media that “the attack on Yemen involved more than 10 fighter jets, and more than 30 munitions were used against 15 sites.”

A senior Yemeni military source confirmed to Al-Mayadeen the aggression struck purely civilian targets, noting that the government complex in Al-Jawf is a building serving citizens and has no military connection.

The source emphasized that targeting civilian facilities will not “stop Yemen from fulfilling its role,” noting that the occupation’s targeting of the government complex is evidence of its incompetence and failure.

The aggression on Yemen “will not stop us from supporting Gaza and disciplining the Israeli entity,” he continued.

The Yemeni armed forces have continue their operations against Israel, directing strikes at various targets, including Ben Gurion Airport and imposing a ban on Israeli ports.

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Dr. Marwan Asmar holds a PhD from Leeds University and is a freelance writer specializing on the Middle East. He has worked as a journalist since the early 1990s in Jordan and the Gulf countries, and been widely published, including at Albawaba, Gulf News, Al Ghad, World Press Review and others.

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“Israeli authorities and security forces have deliberately targeted Palestinian children resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Gaza Strip and war crimes in the West Bank,” read the report published by the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel.

The commission said it had concluded last year that Israel committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, and found that the intense scale and systematic nature of the Israeli military operations have continued, causing unprecedented death, injury and trauma among Palestinian children.

“The deliberate targeting of children is one of the key elements establishing genocidal intent of the Israeli authorities and security forces to destroy the Palestinian group, in whole or in part, in Gaza,” the commission said.

“The evidence shows that Palestinian children have been deliberately targeted and killed by the Israeli security forces,” said Srinivasan Muralidhar, chair of the commission.

“Even after the October 2025 ceasefire, children continue to be killed and seriously injured, with continued disregard by Israel for the ceasefire and for the protection owed to Palestinian children under international law,” he added.

“Palestinian children have been arrested and subjected to torture and other severe forms of mistreatment in Israeli prisons and detention facilities, with no information on their whereabouts,” the commission said.

“Israeli security forces have also used sexual violence against children as part of the collective shaming and oppression, entrenched within a prolonged, ethnic, gendered, and intergenerational pattern of Israeli occupation and hostilities,” it added.

The report said Israel’s targeting of neonatal and maternity care centers in Gaza directly harmed the survival of newborns and Palestinians’ reproductive future, including increases in miscarriages, birth defects and lasting vulnerabilities among newborns.

“Starvation imposed by Israel through blockade and siege have further caused the death of Palestinian children and severely impacted the health of many others, depriving them of essential nutrition and increasing disease risks amid reduced immunization, food insecurity and destroyed health services,” it also said.

“Even if the bombs and guns fall silent in Gaza and West Bank, Palestinian children will not simply recover overnight,” Muralidhar said. “The destruction of their health, education and development is irreversible.”

“The protection, care and survival of Palestinian children are inseparable from the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination,” Muralidhar said. “By targeting children, Israel is attacking the very capacity of the Palestinian people to exist and to determine their future.”

The commission said it had identified Israeli military units responsible for killing and injuring Palestinian children and made recommendations to Israel and UN member states to ensure accountability.

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Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza since October 2023 has killed 73,032 people, injured over 173,300 and caused massive destruction to about 90% of the enclave’s infrastructure, with the United Nations estimating reconstruction costs at about $70 billion.

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