Yemeni Houthi rebels stated on Sunday that they carried out strikes focusing on southern Israel and a US ship within the Red Sea.
“Our naval operations will not stop unless the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip stops,” Houthi navy spokesman Yahya Saree stated in a televised speech.
Saree claimed that the group launched an assault focusing on “vital areas in Eilat, southern Israel with ballistic missiles, achieving direct hit.”
He acknowledged that additionally they hit the US vessel within the Red Sea with ballistic missiles and drones.
There was no rapid remark from Israel or the US relating to the Houthi claims.
This got here after Israeli airstrikes focusing on gasoline tanks and an influence station within the western Yemeni port metropolis of Al Hudaydah. Three folks have been killed within the assault, whereas 87 have been injured, in response to the Houthi Health Ministry.
Saree vowed that the Houthis’ response to the assault “is inevitably coming and will be great.”
The Israeli military claimed accountability for the airstrikes, whereas Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described them as a “direct response” to a drone assault by the Houthi group on Tel Aviv on Friday, which killed an Israeli and injured 10 others.
The Houthis have been focusing on ships which might be Israeli-owned, flagged, operated or headed to Israeli ports within the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden with missiles and drones in solidarity with Gaza, which has been below a devastating Israeli onslaught since Oct. 7.
Source: www.anews.com.tr