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The explosion at an airport in Aden, Yemen that left 25 dead and 110 injured Wednesday was part of a plan by Iran-sponsored rebels to eradicate the country’s new government as it arrived in the city, Yemen’s prime minister claimed to the Associated Press on Saturday.
“It’s a major terrorist attack that was meant to eliminate the government,” Maeen Abdulmalik Saeed told the Associated Press in his first interview with international media since the incident. “It was a message against peace and stability in Yemen.”
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Yemen s Aden Airport to Reopen Despite Missile Blasts Published January 3rd, 2021 - 06:58 GMT
Fighters with the Saudi-backed coalition assess the damage inside the airport of Yemen s southern city of Aden on December 31, 2020, a day after explosions rocked the building, killing or injuring dozens of people. Saleh Al-OBEIDI / AFP
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Saudi-backed engineering experts coordinated with Yemeni authorities to assess and repair damage.
Aden airport will officially open on Sunday and flights are set to resume as normal despite repairs continuing in the wake of the missile attack last week.
Yemen’s Minister of Transport Abdel Salam Hamid made the announcement on Saturday as a team of Saudi-backed engineering experts coordinated with Yemeni authorities to assess and repair damage caused by a deadly attack on Aden’s airport last Wednesday.
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Three television polls by TV networks this evening show Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai’s new party eating into support for Yair Lapid’s centrist Yesh Atid and Naftali Bennett’s right-wing Yamina, but failing to much affect Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud and Gideon Sa’ar’s New Hope.
Meanwhile Benny Gantz’s Blue and White continues its crash, just barely passing the electoral threshold in both polls.
Despite enjoying a lead, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu still does not have a clear path to forming the next government, with rival Gideon Sa’ar vowing not to bring his New Hope party into a government under Netanyahu.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has offered the former director-general of the Health Ministry, Moshe Bar Siman-Tov, the fifth spot on Likud’s slate for the coming elections, Channel 12 News reports.
There is no word on whether Bar Siman-Tov, who gained prominence as the face of the Health Ministry during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic, plans to accept. He has said in the past he has no intention of entering politics.
Then Health Ministry director-general Manager Moshe Bar Siman-Tov at a press conference about the coronavirus COVID-19, at the Prime Ministers office in Jerusalem on March 11, 2020. (Flash90) I m proud to work at The Times of Israel
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At least 30 Syrian soldiers were killed Wednesday in a jihadist attack on their bus in the east of the war-torn country, a monitor says.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the attack in Deir Ezzor province was carried out by the Islamic State group.
The official news agency SANA reports that a “terrorist attack” on a bus killed “25 citizens” and wounded 13. I m proud to work at The Times of Israel
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