SANAA, Yemen / ISTANBUL

Israeli airstrikes on Sanaa airport in the Yemeni capital have caused nearly $500 million worth of damage, the airport director said on Wednesday.

“Israel destroyed six aircraft, including three planes of Yemenia Airways,” Khaled Al-Shaief told the Houthi-affiliated Al-Masirah TV.

He said Yemen’s national carrier has no planes left except one in Oman.

Shaief also said that the Israeli assault has destroyed all lounges of the airport, in addition to the supply building.

At least seven people were killed and 74 others injured in Israeli airstrikes in several areas in Yemen on Tuesday, including Sanaa airport, according to the Houthi-run authorities.

The Houthi group said the attacks targeted power stations and industrial facilities in Sanaa and Amran province in the north, and the Red Sea port of Al-Hudaydah.

Yemen has faced an intensified US military campaign since mid-March, including around 1,300 air and naval strikes, resulting in hundreds of civilian casualties, according to the Houthis.

Oman on Tuesday announced a ceasefire between the US and Houthis in Yemen, after President Donald Trump said the group will not carry out attacks on commercial ships.

The Houthis have targeted ships passing through the Red and Arabian seas, the Bab al-Mandab Strait, and the Gulf of Aden since November 2023 in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, where over 52,600 people have been killed in a brutal Israeli assault for more than 19 months, most of them women and children.

The group halted attacks when a Gaza ceasefire was declared in January between Israel and the Palestinian resistance group Hamas but resumed them after Israel's renewed airstrikes on Gaza in March.

The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants last November for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.

Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war on the enclave.