Sanaa, Feb 3 (IANS) Yemen’s armed Houthi group has stated that they’ve struck the Israeli metropolis of Eilat with a number of ballistic missiles.
Houthi navy spokesman Yahya Sarea in a press release aired by the group’s al-Masirah TV on Friday stated that the group struck “particular targets” within the metropolis to show its “help to the Palestinian folks in dealing with the Israeli struggle and blockade”, Xinhua information company reported.
“We is not going to hesitate to hold out additional navy operations in opposition to the Zionist enemy (Israel) on land and at sea till the aggression is stopped and the siege on the Palestinian folks within the Gaza Strip is lifted,” he stated.
Hours earlier, Israel Protection Forces (IDF) stated they intercepted a surface-to-surface missile within the Pink Sea. No sirens had been triggered in the course of the incident.
Because the Israel-Hamas struggle broke out in October final yr, the armed Houthi group in northern Yemen has launched a number of missiles and drones towards Israel in what the Houthis stated was to help the Palestinian folks within the war-ravaged Gaza Strip.
In November, a Houthi suicide bomb-laden drone hit a faculty within the southern metropolis of Eilat, inflicting minor accidents, based on Israeli media shops.
The Houthi escalation within the area and the Pink Sea, which had already disrupted worldwide delivery, raised tensions throughout the Center East that might broaden the battle and hinder the regional peace course of.
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