Netanyahu warns Yemen airstrikes will continue after WHO chief caught up in airport attack – Middle East crisis live | Middle East and north Africa

Welcome back to the Guardian’s live coverage of the Middle East crisis after Israel struck multiple targets linked to the Iran-aligned Houthi movement in Yemen on Thursday, including the international airport in the capital, Sana’a. Houthi media said at least six people were killed.

The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, says he was at Yemen’s international airport when it was hit. A crew member on the plane was injured, he said, and at least two people were reported killed at the airport. Tedros said he had been in Yemen to negotiate the release of UN staff detained by the Houthis and assess the humanitarian situation.

The Israeli military said that it also hit military infrastructure at the ports of Hodeidah, Salif and Ras Kanatib on Yemen’s west coast. It also attacked the country’s Hezyaz and Ras Kanatib power stations.

Later on Thursday, the Houthis – which have declared themselves to be part of the Iranian-led “axis of resistance” against Israel – reportedly said they were ready to respond quickly to the attack and meet “escalation with escalation”.

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that Israel’s airstrikes would “continue until the job is done”. “We are determined to cut this branch of terrorism from the Iranian axis of evil,” he said in a video statement.

In other developments:

• The United Nations chief, António Guterres, has denounced the “escalation” in hostilities between Yemen’s Houthi rebels and Israel, calling IDF strikes on targets including at the airport in Sana’a “especially alarming”.

• The UN security council is due to meet on Monday over the Houthi attacks on Israel, Israel’s UN ambassador Danny Danon has said.

• Israel’s military intercepted a missile fired from Yemen in the latest attack by Houthi rebels – hours after Israeli military bombed sites in Yemen.

• Israel’s military has forced dozens of sick and injured patient to leave Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza,Al Jazeera is reporting.