The Yemeni armed forces say they have targeted with ballistic missiles the port city of Eilat in the south of the Israeli-occupied territories as well as an American and an Israeli-owned vessels in the Red Sea following the regime’s latest attack on the Arab country.
The forces’ spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Saree announced in a statement on Sunday that they carried out a specific military operation against important targets in the Umm al-Rashrash (Eilat) area “with a number of ballistic missiles and the operation has achieved its goals successfully.”
Saree also said the naval and the missile units of Yemen’s Armed Forces conducted a joint military operation targeting the American ship “Pumba” in the Red Sea with a number of ballistic missiles and drones.
“Yemen’s Armed Forces affirm their full right to defend beloved Yemen against the American-British aggression, as well as against the Israeli aggression, and that this aggression will not deter the great Yemen from its solid stance towards the oppression of the Palestinian people,” the spokesman said.
Saree underlined that the Yemeni forces would continue their naval operations against Israeli, American, and British ships or those heading to Israeli ports until the regime’s aggression stops and the siege on the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip is lifted.
“The Yemeni armed forces confirm that the response to the Israeli aggression against our country is inevitably coming and will be huge and great,” he asserted.
Israeli warplanes targeted on Saturday civilian facilities in the western Yemeni province of al-Hudaydah, killing three people and wounding more than 80 others.
The regime said it carried out the attacks in response to hundreds of operations that Yemen’s Armed Forces have been conducting against the occupied Palestinian territories and Israeli interests in support of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, who are enduring a genocidal Israeli-US war.
In a daring attack on Friday, the Yemeni forces struck with drones an area near the US consular facility in Tel Aviv early on Friday, killing one person and injuring 10 others as the Israeli air defenses failed to intercept the unmanned aerial vehicle.
Yemen has been targeting the occupied territories as well as Israeli ships and vessels affiliated with the illegal regime since October 7, 2023 when Tel Aviv began a genocidal war against the Gaza Strip.
They have vowed to keep up their operations as long as the regime sustained the war and a simultaneous siege that it has been enforcing against the Palestinian territory.
The Israeli onslaught on Gaza has so far resulted in 38,919 documented Palestinian fatalities, mostly women and children, in addition to 89,622 injuries.