{"id":75356,"date":"2025-08-18T11:54:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T11:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/75356\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T11:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T11:54:10","slug":"bbc-verify-live-assessing-new-footage-from-pakistan-after-devastating-monsoon-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/75356\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Verify Live: Assessing new footage from Pakistan after devastating monsoon floods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Footage shows aftermath of Israeli strike on Yemen power plantpublished at 11:35 British Summer Time<\/p>\n<p>11:35 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\">Sebastian Vandermeersch<br \/>BBC Verify journalist<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rubble in front of a power plant\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ea1c6488-17c7-4894-95de-01d2dbae282a.png.webp.webp\"  width=\"1697\" height=\"916\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, X<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We\u2019ve verified footage showing the aftermath of an Israeli strike yesterday on the Haziz power plant in Yemen\u2019s capital, Sanaa. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on X it had targeted \u201cenergy infrastructure used by the Houthi terrorist regime\u201d in response to the group continuing to fire missiles towards Israel. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Houthis have previously said they will not halt such attacks until the war in Gaza ends.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The video shows the remains of a large structure destroyed at the site and firefighters spraying water over the debris. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to local reports, the strike hit the plant\u2019s central generators with the resulting fire spreading across the site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We verified the footage by matching the distinctive electricity pylons on the site to those seen on Google Earth. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Damage from earlier strikes is also visible on Google\u2019s satellite imagery from June. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">New low-resolution satellite pictures also appear to show the results of yesterday\u2019s strike.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"> Three previous strikes have been reported at this facility in December and January. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Footage shows aftermath of Israeli strike on Yemen power plantpublished at 11:35 British Summer Time 11:35 BST Sebastian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-75356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}