This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Batchelor. To the sound of guns, Jonathan Shanzer,

Executive Director of Foundation for Defensive Democracy, immediately to Sanah, the capital of Yemen.

Jonathan, a very good day to you. The news is fresh everywhere. The IAF has launched

air assaults against Sana. We need to do some geography here, Jonathan, before we turn the policy.

Sana is the capital of Yemen. It has been in a civil war as long as I've reported on it at least a dozen years.

However, right now, it is the capital dominated by the Houthis,

who have continued to fire randomly missiles towards Israel and towards shipping and towards

the U.S. Navy.

Houthis have now been identified by the Trump administration as a threat to world peace.

And for the last weeks, the Trump administration has vowed safety U.S. Navy launching air campaign against

the Houthis. Last time I had a number, it was a thousand strikes.

The Houthis continued a fire, and as of Sunday last, there was one of their missiles,

because I'm told, this is anecdotal, the defense system didn't work properly.

One of their missiles got through and hit the Ben-Gurian airport, causing dislocation of the air traffic, but also worldwide shocks, because that's a beautiful modern airport receiving for Israel from all

across the world. And it's time to send your children to Israel for the summer, and you're not

going to send your child into an airport. It's under attack by

the Houthi. So the campaign continues. And then, Jonathan, it looks like Sana is burning. What's

happened? Good evening to you. Good evening, John. Somewhere around 9.30 this morning,

Israeli aircraft began targeting a number of sites across Sana.

As we understand it, the airport has been destroyed.

That includes the infrastructure towers, including aircraft on the ground.

The airstrip itself, the runway, has also been hit.

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