Nimisha Priya is accused of murdering Yemeni citizen Talal by allegedly “injecting him with sedatives’’. Since April, her mother has been camping in Yemen, hoping to convince Talal's family to forgive her.

Yemen's Houthi spokesperson Mohammed Abdulsalam said that the country would continue to defend itself after several U.S. strikes targeted facilities in the capital Sanaa on Tuesday. The U.S. military said that it carried out strikes against Houthi targets in Sanaa and coastal locations in Yemen on Monday and Tuesday.

The more than a dozen strikes in Sana'a and other parts of Yemen are the first major ones since the Navy shot down its own F/A-18F.

Nimisha Priya, an Indian-origin nurse, faces execution in Yemen after accused of murder. Her family seeks blood money negotiations to save her life.

The U.S. has been targeting Houthi facilities in Yemen and has long carried out military activities in the country.

Air raid sirens sounded in Tel Aviv Monday after reports of a missile launch from Yemen, sending residents running for shelter.

Israel’s military says it intercepted a missile fired toward the country by Yemen’s Houthi rebels. The attack set off sirens late Monday in central areas of Israel, including Tel Aviv.

Officials say strikes are part of an effort to degrade Houthi assaults of Israel and commercial vessels in the Red Sea.

"On Dec. 30 and 31, U.S. Navy ships and aircraft targeted a Houthi command and control facility and advanced conventional weapon (ACW) production and storage facilities that included missiles and uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAV)," the U.S. military's Central Command said in a post on X.

The Iranian-backed Houthi militia in Yemen on Tuesday claimed to have attacked the international airport in Tel Aviv as well as targets in Jerusalem. Houthi military spokesman Yehya Saree said in a televised statement that Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport and an electricity plant in the Jerusalem area had been attacked with ballistic missiles.

The targets struck by U.S. forces had been used to attack American warships and commercial vessels, officials said.