Qualla: 2025 Israeli attacks in Yemen

2025 Israeli attacks in Yemen: Introduction

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

On the morning of 4 May 2025, a Houthi ballistic missile hit near Ben Gurion Airport outside Tel Aviv. Flights were canceled, Israel's main international gateway temporarily closed. The following day, the Israeli Air Force bombed Hudaydah Port and al-Imran cement factory. The day after that, they destroyed Sanaa International Airport. What followed was one of the longest sustained bombing campaigns Israel had conducted outside its immediate neighborhood - a year-long series of strikes that would kill dozens, destroy Yemen's national airline's entire fleet on the ground, take out the Houthi prime minister, and eventually wind down only when a broader Gaza ceasefire, brokered in October 2025, broke the cycle of strike and counter-strike.

2025 Israeli attacks in Yemen: Opening Salvoes

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

On 5 May, more than thirty Israeli aircraft dropped approximately fifty munitions on nine targets, including the al-Imran cement factory east of Hudaydah. Houthi-linked media reported four people killed and forty-two wounded at the factory. On 6 May, Israeli forces hit Sanaa Inte...

2025 Israeli attacks in Yemen: The Navy Joins

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

On 10 June, at around seven in the morning, the Israeli Navy fired its first missiles of the campaign. Two warships - one of them a Sa'ar 6 corvette - launched missiles at Hudaydah Port from hundreds of kilometers offshore. An Israeli military official called it a unique long-ran...

2025 Israeli attacks in Yemen: Rhythm

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

For months, the rhythm held. A Houthi missile or drone would fly toward Israel; most would be intercepted, some would get through, and Israel would respond with airstrikes on ports and power stations in Yemen. On 11 May, Israel struck Ras Isa, Hudaydah, and Salif after warning re...

2025 Israeli attacks in Yemen: August 28

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

On 28 August 2025, the Israeli Air Force hit a gathering of senior Houthi officials in Sanaa who had assembled to watch a televised speech by their leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi. Around ten strikes hit the city. The reports that emerged over the following weeks named the dead: Hou...

2025 Israeli attacks in Yemen: September's Cost

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

On 10 September, the IDF struck Sanaa and several locations across Yemen as part of what Defense Minister Israel Katz named Operation Ringing Bells. Targets included a government complex, military camps, public information offices, and fuel storage in al-Hazm, al-Jawf Governorate...

2025 Israeli attacks in Yemen: The Ceasefire

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The end came from elsewhere. On 5 October 2025, one more Houthi missile hit Israel - closing Ben Gurion briefly, sirens in multiple regions. Days later, a broader Gaza ceasefire plan brokered by US President Donald Trump took hold, and the Houthis announced they would halt attack...