By Yomna Ehab
ADEN (Reuters) -The Israeli military said it struck targets linked to Yemen's Houthis in Sanaa on Thursday, a day after the group claimed a drone attack on a hotel in Israel's Red Sea resort of Eilat.
The Houthi-run health ministry said eight people were killed and 142 wounded in the attack in a preliminary toll provided, which it said hit civilian and service facilities. Civil defence teams were still working at the scene.
The Israeli military said in a statement that the Houthi general staff's control headquarters, security and intelligence compounds, and military camps were among the targets attacked by its air force.
"We have now delivered a powerful strike on numerous terror targets of the Houthi terror organization in Sanaa," Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said in a post on X.
The strikes are the latest in more than a year of attacks and counterstrikes between Houthi militants in Yemen and Israel, part of a spillover from the war in Gaza.
The strikes targeted the Dhahban power station and several residential neighbourhoods, the Houthi-run Al Masirah TV reported.
Yemeni residents told Reuters that the strikes were directed at areas in the south and west of Sanaa.
"It's terrifying," one witness told Reuters, saying the area had been covered in dust. "While passing through the street I saw dozens of women and children smeared with blood."
The strikes came as a pre-recorded speech by Houthi leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi was being aired.
On Wednesday, at least 20 people were injured after a drone launched from Yemen hit a hotel in Israel's Red Sea resort city of Eilat, the Israeli ambulance service said.
Israel in August carried out a strike that killed the prime minister of the Houthis' administration and several other ministers, the first such attack to kill senior officials of the group.
(Reporting by Yomna Ehab and Mohammed Ghobari; Additional reporting by Enas Alashray, Editing by Aidan Lewis and Deepa Babington)
