Local security conflict

Israel's military said it had targeted "infrastructure used by the Houthi terrorist regime for its military activities." These included Sanaa's international airport, two power stations, and several western ports.Israel struck several sites in Yemen on Thursday including the international airport serving the capital Sanaa and the adjacent al-Dailami Air Base.Houthi Al Masirah TV reported that the Israeli strikes killed three, including two in the strike on Sanaa International Airport. Eleven more were injured, it added.Tedros Ghebreyesus, director general of the United Nations' World Health Organization, said the strikes prevented a mission negotiating the release of UN staff detainees from leaving Yemen."As we were about to board our flight from Sanaa, about two hours ago, the airport came under aerial bombardment," Ghebreyesus said online, adding that a member of the UN's plane crew was injured. "We will need to wait for the damage to the airport to be repaired before we can leave.""Air Force fighter jets recently attacked, under the direction of the Intelligence Branch, terrorist targets of the Houthi terrorist regime in the western coastal strip and deep inside Yemen," the IDF said. The Israeli military said it was targeting "infrastructure used by the Houthi terrorist regime for its military activities at the international airport in Sanaa and the Aziz and Ras Qantib power stations." It also targeted infrastructure "at the ports of Hodeidah, Al-Salif and Ras Qantib on the western coast of Yemen."It said the sites were used "to transfer Iranian weapons" or to receive senior visiting officials from Iran.Yemeni media had earlier reported explosions and airstrikes at these sites, with a Houthi spokesman blaming "Israeli aggression."