The Houthis claim new attacks from Yemen against Israel and promise to “react to any escalation”

MADRID Dec. 20 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Houthi rebels have claimed this Friday a new drone attack against “vital” and “military” objectives in Israel and have stressed that the group “will react to any escalation” by Israel and the United States, after the latest bombings carried out against Yemen .

The Houthi military operations spokesman, Yahya Sari, said in a statement that the group has carried out “a specific military operation against vital targets of the Israeli enemy in the south of occupied Palestine”, an attack coordinated with pro-Iranian militias. from Iraq.

“The operation has successfully achieved its objectives,” he said in a statement on his account on the social network their objectives”, without information on victims.

Sari stressed that “the Yemeni Armed Forces will react to any US-Israeli escalation against Yemen with a similar escalation and will not hesitate to attack vital facilities of the Israeli enemy, as well as to confront military actions of the US enemy.” “.

“The continuation of the crimes committed against our people in Gaza will only lead to more attacks by the missile force and the Air Force and more joint operations with the Islamic Resistance of Iraq against the Israeli enemy,” he stressed, while has asserted that these attacks “will not stop until the aggression against Gaza ends and the siege is lifted.”

During the day on Thursday, at least nine people died due to a series of air strikes carried out by the Israeli Armed Forces against the capital of Yemen and the province of Hodeida (west), which reached the port of this city and electrical installations in Fury.

The Houthis have carried out dozens of drone and projectile attacks against Israel since the outbreak of the conflict in the region following the attacks carried out on October 7, 2023 by Hamas and other Palestinian factions, which left nearly 1,200 dead and some 250 kidnapped and led to an Israeli military offensive against Gaza that leaves more than 45,200 dead, according to the Gazan authorities, controlled by the group. Islamist.