ALBAWABA- Yemen’s Houthi movement announced Monday that its forces had carried out multiple military operations against Israeli targets in what it described as support for Palestinians in Gaza, a day after Israel’s assassination of the group’s top leaders in Sana’a.
In a televised statement, Houthi military spokesperson Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree said the Yemeni Armed Forces launched a Sammad-4 drone strike on the Israeli military’s General Staff headquarters in Tel Aviv, in addition to three other drone attacks on Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, the Khadera power station near Haifa, and the Port of Ashdod.
Saree also claimed responsibility for targeting the container ship MSC ABY, which he described as linked to Israel, using a cruise missile and two drones.
The Houthis have previously declared Israeli-bound shipping banned from what they call “the ports of occupied Palestine.”
The announcement followed another strike on Sunday, when the Houthis said they fired a ballistic missile at the Israeli-owned chemical tanker Scarlet Ray near Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea port of Yanbu.
The Liberia-flagged vessel, managed by Singapore-based Eastern Pacific Shipping owned by Israeli billionaire Idan Ofer, was undamaged and continued sailing, according to the company. Attacks in this northern stretch of the Red Sea near Saudi Arabia have been rare in recent years.
The latest escalation comes days after Israeli airstrikes on Sana’a killed Houthi Prime Minister and nine senior ministers, along with dozens of others, in one of the deadliest Israeli strikes against the group in nearly two years.
Saree vowed that Houthi operations against Israeli targets would continue until “the aggression on Gaza stops and the siege is lifted.”
