Israeli airstrikes hit Houthi targets in Yemen

Fire and black smoke was seen rising from Yemen's Hodeidah after Israel said it bombed Houthi targets in response to missile fire by the militants at Israel over the past two days, marking another front in fighting in the Middle East.

The Israeli strikes killed at least four people and wounded 29, the Houthi-run Health Ministry said in a statement, and residents said the bombing had caused power outages in most parts of the port city of Hodeidah.

Israel's military said in a statement that dozens of aircraft, including fighter jets, had attacked power plants and a sea port in Hodeidah and the port of Ras Issa.

It was the second such Israeli attack on Yemen in just over two months. In July, Israeli warplanes struck Houthi military targets near Hodeidah after a Yemeni drone hit Tel Aviv and killed one man.

Yemen's Houthi militants have repeatedly fired missiles and drones at Israel in what they say is solidarity with Palestinians, since the Gaza war began with a Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7.

The Houthi movement earlier mourned Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, its ally in an alliance opposing Israel, following his death in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut.

The Israeli military said it had eliminated Nasrallah in the strike on the group's central command headquarters in Beirut's southern suburbs. Hezbollah confirmed he had been killed, without saying how.

Hezbollah and Israel have been fighting a conflict in parallel with Israel's war against Palestinian group Hamas in Gaza since Hamas' attack on southern Israel last Oct. 7, a conflict that has sharply escalated in recent days.

Nasrallah's death is by far the most significant blow in a devastating fortnight for Hezbollah, starting with a deadly attack on thousands of wireless communications devices used by its members.