Yemen's Sanaa International Airport will resume operations in the coming days, the airport's general manager said on Wednesday.
Operations of the airport have been suspended since May 6 when it was hit by 12 missiles in an Israeli airstrike against the Houthi group.
The airstrike severely damaged the airport's terminal, runway, and communications and navigation equipment, according to its general manager Khaled Al-Shaif.
Immediately after the airstrike, the airport activated an emergency plan, dividing airport staff into groups to repair facilities and enable backup devices to resume minimum operations as soon as possible, Khaled said.
"After the airport was destroyed, we faced a huge challenge, which was to restore the airport to a minimally operable state as there were people who were stranded outside the country and wanted to return home, people with critical illnesses who needed to go abroad for treatment, as well as UN staff, international students, and expatriates who needed flight services," he said.
Sanaa International Airport is the largest airport in Yemen and the only functional international airport in Houthi-controlled areas prior to the attack.
It once suspended all commercial flights from August 2016 to May 16, 2022 due to conflict.
"Before the airstrike, the airport was operating normally, with an average of two Yemenia Airways flights between Sanaa and Amman every day, and an average of one to three flights of the United Nations and other international organizations every day," Khaled said.
Yemen’s Sanaa airport to resume operations in coming days
Yemen’s Sanaa airport to resume operations in coming days
Protests against federal immigration enforcement are spreading across the United States, with the latest demonstration unfolding directly in front of the White House.
Early Saturday, more than a hundred demonstrators gathered there, demanding changes to the Trump administration's immigration policies and accountability for recent shootings involving federal agents.
Immigrant rights and civil rights groups said this weekend's rallies mark a coordinated national response. Demonstrations are planned or already underway in major cities including Philadelphia, as well as across states such as North Carolina, Florida, Texas, and Washington, D.C., where organizers are calling for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to be removed from local communities.
The nationwide protests follow a deadly week in which three people were shot by federal agents in two days.
In Minneapolis, Minnesota, a 37-year-old woman, Renee Good, was killed during an enforcement operation by the ICE. A day later in Portland, Oregon, a man and a woman were wounded during a separate federal operation.
In the aftermath, Minnesota state officials accused the Trump administration of blocking their investigation by denying access to key evidence and prematurely drawing conclusions before a full review could be completed.
On Friday, Donald Trump defended the Department of Homeland Security's actions, sharply criticizing Minnesota leaders and calling them corrupt.
Local leaders have pushed back. During a Saturday news conference, the mayor of Minneapolis described ICE agents' actions as reckless.
Officials in both Minneapolis and Portland continue urging demonstrators to remain peaceful as protests intensify nationwide.
According to a 50501 Movement statement issued Friday, at least 32 people died in ICE custody in 2025.
Nationwide protests erupt in US after ICE shootings
