Yemen's Houthis claim drone attacks on targets in Israel

SANAA, Yemen

Yemen's Houthi group said on Friday that it carried out multiple drone strikes on central and southern Israel, including a joint attack with an Iranian-Iraqi military group.

In a recorded statement posted on X, Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree said, “We conducted a joint operation with the Islamic Resistance in Iraq on vital Israeli targets in southern occupied Palestine using several drones."

"We also launched a significant military operation targeting an Israeli military site in occupied Jaffa with a drone,” he added.

The announcement comes after the Houthis claimed three military operations against Israeli positions on Thursday, coinciding with Israeli airstrikes on Yemen's cities of Sana'a and Al Hudaydah.

While neither the Islamic Resistance in Iraq nor Israel has issued statements regarding these attacks, Saree claimed the operations successfully hit their intended targets.

The Houthis, in solidarity with Gaza, which has been facing an Israeli genocidal war since Oct. 7, 2023, have targeted Israeli cargo ships or those associated with Tel Aviv in the Red Sea with missiles and drones, expressing a determination to continue operations until the end of the onslaught on the enclave.

Since the beginning of 2024, a coalition led by the US has been conducting airstrikes that it said are targeting Houthi locations in parts of Yemen in response to attacks by the group in the Red Sea. The counterattacks have been occasionally met with retaliation from the group.

With the intervention of Washington and London and an escalation of tensions, the Houthis announced that they consider all American and British ships military targets.

*Writing by Mohammad Sio