Israel’s attack Saturday heralded a further expansion of the war in Gaza, and added a volatile new dynamic to what has become a building regional conflict.
A man watches Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Sarea deliver a televised statement claiming a drone attack on Israel's Tel Aviv on Friday.
Israel said Saturday that it had carried out airstrikes on a port city in Yemen controlled by the Houthi militant group, in an attack that sparked massive fires and caused deaths and injuries, the Israel Defense Forces and the Houthi-run Masirah news channel said. The attack came a day after the Houthis, an Iranian-allied group, claimed responsibility for a rare drone attack on Tel Aviv that killed one person and struck just yards from a U.S. Embassy branch office.
A brief IDF statement Saturday said that its jets had struck “military targets of the Houthi terrorist regime” in the port of the city, Al-Hodeida, in response to “hundreds of attacks” carried out against Israel in recent months. The attacks were approved at a rare Saturday Sabbath emergency cabinet meeting called in the afternoon, according to Israeli media reports.
The Israeli attacks, he added, had targeted “civilian facilities, oil depots and the electricity station” in Hodeida, an impoverished city that serves as a lifeline for imports to northern Yemen, as well as a critical source of revenue for the Houthis, a militant group from northern Yemen that has taken control of large swaths of the country during a civil war that started a decade ago.
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