The Israeli airstrike transformed a quiet evening in Sanaa into a night of chaos and fire. The attack began suddenly, with the roar of jets followed almost instantly by a series of powerful explosions that shook the foundations of the city.
The first target, according to Houthi sources, was a building in central Sanaa, causing immediate panic. Shortly after, a massive fireball erupted in the southern part of the city, indicating a direct hit on an oil company facility or fuel depot. The sky glowed orange as a column of thick, black smoke billowed upwards.
Simultaneously, power stations were struck, plunging parts of the city into darkness and adding to the confusion. Emergency services and residents rushed to the scenes, facing fires and collapsed structures as they searched for survivors.
The Houthi-run health ministry quickly began to tally the casualties, a number that grew throughout the night, eventually settling at six dead and 86 wounded. For those on the ground, it was a terrifying, moment-by-moment ordeal of survival under a bombardment directed from hundreds of miles away.