Yemenis aboard an airplane that was delayed Monday due to the attack on Sanaa International Airport shouted imprecations at Israel and the Jews, despite believing the attack was launched by Saudi Arabia, though the internationally recognized government of Yemen ultimately claimed responsibility for the attack.

Video footage shows shouts of “Death to Israel! Curse upon the Jews!” filling the air as passengers shake their fists in the air.

Earlier in the day, the Yemeni defense minister said that Yemen’s diplomatic efforts to convince the Houthi delegation to Khamenei’s funeral not to violate Yemeni airspace failed, leaving the government no choice but to bomb the airport.

“The terrorist Houthi militias — backed by the Iranian regime — prevented Yemeni national aircraft from landing at the airport in the capital, Sanaa, while insisting on allowing an Iranian plane to violate Yemeni territory; consequently, the airport runway was targeted,” the defense ministry said.

Moammar bin Mutahar Al-Eryan, Yemen’s information minister, also accused the Houthis of holding hostage a pilot and copilot from the International Committee of the Red Cross at Sanaa airport whose aircraft they had detained. Meanwhile, the Houthis said they had landed the Iranian plane in Yemen, though they did not specify where.