Wednesday 30 / October / 2024
Sana'a: A series of air raids by the Israeli occupation forces targeted the Yemeni city of Hodeidah on Saturday, leaving a number of people dead and severely burned, while fires continue in the targeted facilities.
Media outlets affiliated with the Yemeni Ansar Allah group reported that the strikes targeted oil storage facilities in the port of Hodeidah.
The raids come a day after a drone attack on the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, claimed by the Ansar Allah group, which resulted in the death of an Israeli citizen.
The Israeli military has said it believes an Iranian-made drone that hit Tel Aviv in the early hours of Friday was launched from Yemen.
The comments came in a press briefing with chief spokesman Daniel Hagari, who said the military assessed that the drone, which hit a building near the beachfront in Tel Aviv, was an upgraded Iranian-made Samad-3 model.
"Our estimation is that it arrived from Yemen to Tel Aviv," he said.
The explosion killed one man, with the projectile that caused it appearing to have come from the sea.
The Yemen-based Houthi group said earlier on Friday that it had launched a "new drone called 'Yafa', which is capable of bypassing the enemy's interception systems" at Tel Aviv.
The Houthis have targeted shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden with numerous drone and missile attacks since November, citing solidarity with Palestinians during the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.
