Yemen’s Houthi group said on Thursday it had launched joint airstrikes on Israel’s Haifa port.
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Yemen’s Houthi group said on Thursday it had launched joint airstrikes with an Iraqi group, targeting ships in Israel’s Haifa port, although the Israeli military denied the claim.
Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarea said in a statement broadcast on Houthi-run al-Masirah TV that “precise operations” were carried out with drones in retaliation for “massacres committed by the Israeli enemy in the (Palestinian) area of Rafah” in Gaza.
Meanwhile, Israeli military sources told Xinhua news agency that they were “not familiar with such an incident.” Witnesses from companies operating in Haifa said the port was operating normally.
Sarea said one operation targeted two ships carrying military equipment, and another targeted a ship that “violated the Houthi entry ban on the port of Haifa in occupied Palestine (Israel).”
The Israeli enemy should expect further operations, the spokesman said.
The Houthi rebel group, which controls several cities in northern Yemen including the capital Sanaa, last November began launching anti-ship ballistic missiles and drones targeting what it said were Israeli-linked ships transiting the Red Sea, to show solidarity with the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
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