YEMEN-SANAA-ISRAELI AIRSTRIKE-AIRPORT-PLANE-DESTRUCTION

Xinhua
28 May 2025

YEMEN-SANAA-ISRAELI AIRSTRIKE-AIRPORT-PLANE-DESTRUCTION

(250528) -- SANAA, May 28, 2025 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on May 28, 2025 shows a damaged plane at Sanaa International Airport after Israeli airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen. Israeli warplanes on Wednesday struck Sanaa's main airport in Yemen and several aircraft belonging to the Houthi forces, Israel's military said in a statement.

Khaled al-Shaief, Houthi general director of Sanaa International Airport, confirmed that a fourth plane of Yemen's national Yemenia Airline company was destroyed by the Israeli airstrikes Wednesday morning.

"The ... (Israeli) enemy targeted the last Yemenia Airlines' plane operating at Sanaa International Airport and destroyed it," al-Shaief wrote on social platform X. (Sanaa International Airport/Handout via Xinhua)