2024-07-21 09:14:27
A few hours after Israeli strikes ignited a huge fire and killed three people in the port of Hodeida, in Yemen, according to the Houthi rebels who control this area, firefighters were still fighting the fire on Sunday July 20.
Saturday’s attacks on this strategic port in western Yemen, a key entry point for oil and humanitarian aid, were the first that Israel claimed in the poorest country on the peninsula, located around 1,800 kilometers away.
Them “The rebel response to Israel’s aggression against our country is inevitable and it will be great”, Yahya Saree, their military spokesman, said on Sunday. He said the rebels fired ballistic missiles at Eilat, an Israeli resort town on the Red Sea. A missile fired from Yemen was intercepted, the Israeli army said, precisely that “The news did not enter the territory of Israel”.
Launched a day after a Houthi drone attack that killed one person in Tel Aviv, after defeating the Israeli defense system, the air raids on Hodeidah caused the death of three people and injured 87, many of them suffered severe burns, The Houthi health center said. .
“The humanitarian crisis is increasing”
Other operations against the Houthis will follow “If they plan to attack us”, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said on Saturday. Thick black smoke covered the sky above Hodeida on Sunday, according to an Agence France-Presse correspondent on the scene.
A station official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said fuel tanks and the power plant were still on fire. According to him, it will take several days to contain the fire, a point of view shared by experts in Yemen, especially given the lack of equipment for firefighters.
The attack “will have catastrophic humanitarian consequences for millions of Yemenis” in large areas of the country controlled by the Houthis, said Nicholas Brumfield, a Yemen expert on.
The Yemeni government, internationally recognized and supported by Saudi Arabia in its war fought since 2014 against the Houthis, condemned the Israeli attacks, holding Israel “responsible for worsening humanitarian crisis”. He warned the rebels, backed by Tehran and who say they are working in solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza, against the risk of pulling the country in. “Senseless wars serving the interests of the Iranian regime and its expansion project in the region”.
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