Israel pounds Houthis with massive missile blitz blasting rebel-held ports & power stations in revenge strikes

ISRAEL has unleashed a flurry of intense and deadly missile attacks on Iran-backed Houthi rebels.

At least nine fighters from the terror group are believed to have died in the devastating revenge strikes on rebel-held ports and power stations in Lebanon.

Dramatic footage shows the blast ripping through Hodeidah in Yemen overnight.

Israel sent across dozens of their fighter jets and spy planes near to the border in the planned attacks.

They dropped several powerful missiles on the Hodeidah port as well as targeting the rebel-held capital of Sana’a for the first time, the IDF said.

Video captured the moment one of the Israeli strikes erupted at a power station - causing a giant fireball blast.

The seismic explosion sent a mushroom cloud into the air as smoke billowed into the night sky.

Another blast also ripped through Hodeidah and lit up the port.

IDF Spokesperson, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, said the attacks were in retaliation for the "Houthi terror regime" launching a strike of their own on Israel.

A Houthi hypersonic ballistic missile assault was downed by the IDF earlier in the week but heavy shrapnel caused chaos over Ramat Gan.

Families were left running for shelter as the falling debris rained across the city.

The Lebanese-based terror group also launched a second missile and a drone strike in the days prior on the Jaffa area.

The Houthis claimed the "operation achieved its goals successfully".

Hagari added: "Over the last 14 months, the Iran-backed Houthi terror regime in Yemen has launched hundreds of missile and UAV attacks against the State of Israel.

"The Houthis have been carrying out attacks against Israel in violation of international law, and the Houthi regime is a threat to peace and security in the region."

The IDF spokesman also vowed to continue striking their enemies in Lebanon as they have across the Middle East in the past 14 months.

Israel has been at war with the Houthis ever since they vowed to eliminate fellow terror group Hamas following the October 7 massacre.

Both the Houthis and Hamas are proxies for the Iranian military with all three threatening to attack Israel for over a year.

Israel's military has been spread across the Middle East since last October with their latest mission focusing on Syria following the fall of Bashar al-Assad.

The IDF pounded military planes and ships belonging to the toppled tyrant with 300 airstrikes on Syria since last Sunday.

They say the barrage of strikes is to stop the regime's weapons and military craft “falling into terrorist hands”.

On Sunday, a colossal explosion erupted in Syria, marking the "heaviest strikes" to hit the region in over a decade.

A giant mushroom-cloud fireball took over the sky in a devastating bomb blast that even registered on the Richter scale.

The US also carried out dozens of airstrikes across central Syria as they looked to eliminate terrorist ISIS targets.