[Regnum] On May 5, the US and Israeli air forces launched a series of eight strikes on the port and city of Hodeida in western Yemen, Al Jazeera reports.
"Israeli media reports that the strikes on Hodeida targeted a concrete factory used to support the Houthi military industry," the statement said.
According to the channel, 48 bombs were dropped, causing a "heavy blow" to the port of Hodeida. No casualties or deaths were reported.
As reported by Regnum news agency, earlier Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised to give a powerful response to the missile attack on Ben Gurion Airport by rebels from the Yemeni Ansar Allah (Houthis) movement and stated that Iran was behind the Houthis’ actions.
On the morning of May 4, it became known that debris from a rocket launched from Yemen fell near Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv. The Israeli army press service confirmed that debris from a rocket launched from Yemen fell near the airport during its interception.
After the missile attack, the use of the airspace at the airport was suspended for about an hour, then the airport resumed receiving and releasing aircraft.
Later that day, the Houthis announced plans to impose a complete air blockade on Israel by launching multiple strikes on airports, primarily Ben Gurion.
20 Israeli fighter jets strike in Yemen after Houthi missile hits Ben Gurion Airport
[IsraelTimes] IDF says 50 munitions dropped on Hodeidah port, nearby concrete factory, in a ‘blow’ to Houthi economy and military; Israeli officials: Attack coordinated with US
The Israeli Air Force on Monday evening carried out
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...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is
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-held port city of Hodeidah in Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
in response to the Iran-backed terror group’s ballistic missile attack on Ben Gurion Airport that left several injured a day earlier.
According to the military, the strikes carried out by some 20 IAF fighter jets targeted Houthi infrastructure along the coast of Yemen, including at the Hodeidah port and a concrete factory near the nearby city of Bajil, some 2,000 kilometers from Israel.
| The Houthis claimed responsibility, saying they fired a “hypersonic ballistic missile” at Ben Gurion. The [Israeli] military has said that Iran, and the Houthis — which are supplied by Tehran — do not possess hypersonic missiles, and the missiles they have launched at the country are not maneuverable. |
The Israel Defense Forces said the Hodeidah port was used by the Houthis "for the transfer of Iranian weapons, equipment for military needs, and other terror purposes."
The Bajil concrete factory "serves as an important economic resource for the Houthi terror regime and is used for building tunnels and military infrastructure," the IDF said, adding that the strikes "constitute a blow to the regime’s economy and its military buildup."
"The strike was conducted in response to the repeated attacks by the Houthi terrorist regime against the State of Israel, during which surface-to-surface missiles and UAVs were launched toward Israeli territory and its civilians," the military said in a statement
It was the sixth Israeli strike in Yemen since the beginning of the war, and the first since January. The IDF had stopped responding to the Houthis missile and drone fire on Israel, after the US launched a major aerial campaign against the Iran-backed group several months ago.
A large fire reported in the Bajil district in Hodeidah Govenorate following Israeli airstrikes against Houthi targets. pic.twitter.com/HzcaEL1zTB
— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) May 5, 2025
Israeli officials said the strikes were coordinated with the US, but were not a joint operation.
Footage posted online purportedly showed a large fire at the concrete factory, where the Houthi-run health ministry reported at least 21 people were injured.
Some of the first footage from tonight’s unilateral strikes by the Israeli Air Force against Hodeidah in Houthi-controlled Western Yemen, which is reported to have heavily targeted a cement factory on the outskirts of the city as well as the Port of Hodeidah. pic.twitter.com/gWDSVCLnsV
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) May 5, 2025
Nasruddin Amer, head of the Houthi media office, later said the Israeli strikes would not deter the rebels, and vowed that they would respond to the attack.
“The aggressive Zionist-American raids on civilian facilities will not affect our military operations against the Zionist enemy entity,” he said in a social media post.
Monday’s strikes came after a missile fired from Yemen on Sunday landed inside the perimeter of Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv for the first time, in a grove of trees alongside an access road close to the airport’s main Terminal 3, several hundred yards from the facility’s control tower. The missile gouged a wide crater in the ground near an airport parking lot, injuring six people, none of them seriously, and prompting most international airlines to suspend flights.
The Houthis claimed responsibility, saying they fired a “hypersonic ballistic missile” at Ben Gurion. The [Israeli] military has said that Iran, and the Houthis — which are supplied by Tehran — do not possess hypersonic missiles, and the missiles they have launched at the country are not maneuverable.
The Houthis “will work to impose a comprehensive air blockade on the Israeli enemy by repeatedly targeting airports, most notably… Ben Gurion Airport,” the terror group said in a statement. The success of such a blockade is highly unlikely, however, with Israel’s defensive systems expected to be able to tackle most incoming missiles.
| PJ Media’s Stephen Green, writing about that airstruck cement factory, said: |
On the flip side, in a war where one side is composed of terrorists who hide their deadly missile stashes in concrete bunkers, a cement factory seems like a legitimate target.
Houthis say at least 21 injured in Israeli strikes on Bajil cement factory
[IsraelTimes] The Houthi-run health ministry in Yemen says that at least 21 people were injured in Israeli strikes on the Bajil cement factory earlier this evening.
The IDF has said that the concrete factory is an “important economic resource” for the Houthis, alleging that it is used “for building tunnels and military infrastructure.”