Israeli airstrikes have hit several targets inside Yemen
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Nick Mars, and in the early hours of Friday, the 27th of December, these are our main stories. Israel has launched a wave of airstrikes on Houthi targets in Yemen, including the main international airport, where the attack narrowly missed the head of the World Health Organization. The European Commission has threatened further sanctions against Russia following the alleged sabotage of another cable under the Baltic Sea. India's first Sikh Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, has died at the age of 92. Also in this podcast, good news for the American bald eagle.
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Israel will strike Houthis until the job is done. The words of the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after his defence forces said they'd launched strikes across Yemen. One of the places targeted was the international airport in the capital Sana'a. Inside the departure lounge, there was panic as people tried to flee the building. Also there was the director general of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who was about to board a flight. Israel says it was attacking sites used by the Houthi armed group that controls part of Yemen. They're backed by Iran and they've repeatedly hit Israel with drones and missiles since the first months of the Gaza war. I asked our correspondent in Jerusalem, Shaima Khalil, how much damage the strikes on Yemen have caused.
What we do know from footage that has appeared was from inside Sana'a International Airport, you could see people running in a panic, rushing out, some with their trolleys not really knowing where to go and others rushing out of the building. Another showed from outside the airport showed smoke rising from the site. And we do know from the IDF that they did target the Sana'a airport and its surrounding area. They say they struck military targets used by the Iran-backed Houthis to smuggle Iranian weapons into the region. We also know that the strikes happened not only in Sana'a and different parts of the capital, but also in the port city of Hadaida. And it's not the first time that these two sites have been struck. This is the second Israeli strike. on Yemen in less than a week. The last one was on Thursday. Now, we understand from Houthi officials that several people were killed, others were injured with the targets of power stations of several ports and port cities.
And we heard from a Houthi official who said that the strikes were a crime against the people of Yemen.
The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has just said, we will strike until the job is done. What is that job and is it achievable?
It's very interesting because these strikes are very much in line with what's been coming out from the Israeli leadership, whether it's the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and he did say this on more than one occasion, but also from the Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz. And One particular comment that he made earlier really is quite telling because he promised to decapitate the leadership of the Houthi movement the same way that Israel did with Hamas and Hezbollah.
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Nick Miles 7 min
Sebastian Usher 3 min
Preston Cook 3 min
Shaima Khalil 3 min
Kate Bingham 2 min
Shashank Joshi 2 min
Jill McGivering 2 min
Davina Gupta 1 min
Josh Hartnett 1 min
Jonathan Beale 1 min
Tej Barar 1 min
Manmohan Singh 1 min
Narrator 1 min
Oliver Conway
Johnny Diamond
Bobby Bones
Economist
Mickey Bristow
Landon Harris
Ilkka Koskimäki
John Morgan
Justin Crump
Dmitry
George W. Bush
Daljeet Dosanjh
Concert Attendee
Indian Speaker
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