The Houthis released a statement on Tuesday following the IDF's airstrikes across Sanaa, stating that "the Israeli and American aggression will not go unanswered and will not deter Yemen from continuing its support for Gaza."
"The Israeli enemy’s targeting of civilian infrastructure and facilities in Sana’a and other regions is additional evidence of the entity's impotence and bankruptcy," they stated.
"The Yemeni people will continue their efforts to pressure the entity until the aggression on Gaza ends and the blockade is lifted," they added.
"Targeting civilian objects is targeting the Yemeni people and their capabilities and reflects the entity (Israel)'s failure to achieve its goals in Yemen. The Zionist aggression will only increase the Yemenis' steadfastness in their position supporting Gaza and the patient Palestinian people by all available means," they claimed.
Sanaa International Airport began evacuating its employees on Tuesday afternoon amid warnings from the IDF of an upcoming strike, according to local reports. Roads leading to the airport have been closed, Saudi-based outlet Al Hadath reported.
A Yemenia Airlines plane was forced to abort taking off from Jordan's Queen Alia International Airport, given it was scheduled to fly to Sanaa, a prominent Yemeni journalist reported.
However, Sanaa International Airport's departure board showed that flights scheduled to Amman and Djibouti were still due to depart.
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The Houthi official news agency, Saba News, reported that local tribes in Yemen's Sanaa, Dhamar, and Raymah Governorates gathered and called for "a general mobilization" to denounce "American and Israeli aggression."
IDF conducted airstrikes across Sanaa
This was in reaction to the IDF conducting a wide array of air strikes across Yemen on Sanaa International Airport, electric power stations, and a cement factory, to weaken the Houthis.