The Iran-backed group launched drones, fired missiles at two US warships in an hours-long attack, the Pentagon says.
Air raids hit Houthi-held Yemeni capital, with no immediate reports of casualties, says Al Masirah TV.
Traffic through Suez Canal has slowed, driving the cost of goods up, and impacting the two countries’ economies.
Viktor Bout, dubbed the ‘merchant of death’, was exchanged two years ago for US basketball star Brittney Griner.
Yemen’s rebel group has launched some 130 attacks in the crucial waterway since the start of the war in Gaza.
Attacks hit key port city of Hodeidah as well as the capital, Sanaa, Houthi-run media and US sources say.
Israel’s foreign minister branded Antonio Guterres ‘a stain on the history of the UN’.
The large-scale Israeli attacks targeted seaports and power stations.
Yemen, Syria, Lebanon and Gaza were all hit by Israeli air strikes in the space of roughly 24 hours.
Attacks on western Yemen come a day after Houthis say they fired a missile at airport near Tel Aviv.
Iran-aligned group says it will continue its attacks on Israel until its ‘aggression on Lebanon and Gaza stops’.
The missile hit Tel Aviv and central Israel on Sunday as war on Gaza nears a whole year.
The Houthi group says it launched a new hypersonic ballistic missile that flew around 2,000km from Yemen to Israel.
Houthis claim its new hypersonic missile managed to evade Israel’s air defence systems as Gaza war enters 12th month.
