After multiple air raids targeted Yemen's Sanaa airport in December 2024, which the Iran-backed Huthi rebels blamed on Israel, a photo of smoke billowing from a runway ricocheted worldwide in social media posts that falsely depicted it as showing the recent attack.

Israeli military attacks several sites, including airport in Yemen’s capital as the WHO chief boards a flight.

The Israeli army said it launched airstrikes Wednesday against Houthi targets in Yemen, including the capital Sanaa's airport, in response to the Iran-backed group's continued missile and drone attacks on Israel, which have escalated in recent weeks.

Yemeni Armed Forces targeted Israeli sites, including the Ben Gurion airport, and a US carrier as Sanaa endured US-British airstrikes.

WHO chief says Israel damaged traffic control tower and the departure lounge just 'metres away' from UN agency workers

The targeted sites included Hezyaz and Ras Kanatib power stations, military infrastructure in the ports of Hodeidah, Salif and Ras Kanatib

Israeli air strikes pummelled Sanaa's international airport and other targets in Yemen on Thursday, leaving three people dead, a day after the latest attacks on Israel by Iran-backed Houthi rebels

The Israeli military said it intercepted a missile launched from Yemen early Saturday, a day after the Huthi-held capital Sanaa was hit by fresh air strikes. The Israeli military said the same day a missile launched from Yemen had been intercepted.

2024 saw the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, the escalation of the war in Ukraine, the sudden reignition of the Syrian civil war, the continuation of the Myanmar civil war, the escalation of the Sudanese civil war, the continuation of the war in Gaza, and the conflict in the Red Sea involving the Houthis.

Gunmen opened fire on a bus carrying Israelis in the occupied West Bank on Monday, killing two 70-year-old women and a 35-year-old policeman, Israel's military said. Israeli soldiers have launched widespread operations in the northern West Bank looking for the attackers.

The United Nations' Yemen mediator arrived in Yemen's capital on Monday as part of a bid to subdue heightened tensions in his first visit in almost two years, a spokesperson said.