You're listening to the BBC World Service.

This is Newsar with Owen Benichones.

And we start in the Middle East, where Hamas and Hezbollah will start 2025,

much weaker than they were a year ago,

and where Israel is now turning its attention to another Iranian proxy force,

the Houthis in Yemen.

Now, Israel and the Houthis are exchanging missiles, as well as hostile rhetoric.

The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has told an Israeli TV station,

we're just getting started with them.

Amongst other targets, the Israeli airstrikes have been aimed at Sana International Airport.

Meanwhile, a senior member of the Houthi movement in Yemen has told Newsar the group will continue its attacks.

We'll hear more from him in a minute.

But first, Julian Harnas, the UN coordinator in Yemen, he said the

international airport had a crucial function for the people of Yemen. It is the location whereby all of the

international humanitarian aid workers who work in the north of the country come in and leave by. So if that airport is

disabled, it will paralyze the humanitarian operations. It's also the airport by which thousands

of Yemenis who are unable to get decent advanced healthcare in the country leave to go either to Jordan or to Cairo

or eventually to Mumbai to get advanced healthcare.

And it's worth saying that the World Health Organisation had senior delegation in the airport when it was targeted.

Well, earlier today, we managed to get through Tassana

to speak to a senior Houthi representative. Andrew Peach has been speaking to Muhammad al-Buchaiti,

a member of the Houthi's political bureau.

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