Yemen’s Houthis claim new attack on Israel

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MADRID Jan. 3 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Houthi rebels have claimed responsibility this Friday for a new drone attack carried out overnight from Yemen against positions in the city of Jaffa, in the Israeli district of Tel Aviv.

The armed group, which has the backing of Iran, has indicated in a statement that it has carried out a “military operation against an enemy power plant in an occupied area of ​​Jaffa.” “The target has been successfully hit,” Houthi spokesman Yahya Sari said in a statement.

“With this attack we fight against the oppression of the Palestinian people and respond to the massacres in Gaza,” he clarified before insisting that they are “prepared to confront any Israeli or American aggression (…) and defend the Yemeni people and its sovereignty.”

In this sense, he has renewed his call to “the Arab population and Islamic countries” to take “strong actions” to “stop the massacres of the Gazan people.” “We will not stop until the aggression ends,” he said.