Al Masirah TV reported early Sunday that the facility was targeted, leaving parts of the plant inoperable.
Civil defense teams were deployed to contain the blaze, while residents in Sanaa said they heard at least two explosions.
The attack comes against the backdrop of Yemen’s retaliatory operations against Israeli occupation, launched in solidarity with Gaza since October 2023.
According to Yemeni officials, their armed forces have targeted Israeli-bound and Israeli-linked vessels in the Red Sea and fired missiles deep into occupied Palestinian territories in response to Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, where nearly 62,000 Palestinians — mostly women and children — have been killed.
On Friday, the Yemeni Armed Forces announced they had struck Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv with a hypersonic ballistic missile, marking the third such attack on the facility in just two days.
“The operation successfully achieved its objective, causing millions to flee to shelters and halting activity at the airport,” the Yemeni military said in a statement.
Israel, backed militarily and politically by the United States and the United Kingdom, has expanded its bombing campaign against Yemen.
Yemen’s leadership has vowed that its operations will persist as long as Israel continues its Gaza war and enforces its suffocating siege on the Palestinian people.