Sana’a, Yemen (DT/EFE) Five people were killed and 57 were wounded in an Israeli airstrike against Shiite Houthi rebels in Yemen, a Houthi spokesman said Monday.
Israel struck Houthi rebels in the western Yemeni port city of Al Hodeida on Sunday night.
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“Five people have been killed, including a child, and 57 others have been injured in the aerial bombardment by the Israeli occupation,” spokesman for the Houthi Ministry of Health, Anees al Asbahi, said.
Most of the wounded are in critical condition, the spokesman added.
Yemeni authorities “strongly condemned the brutal Zionist aggression against Yemen,” an attack “that targeted civilian sites and service facilities in Al Hodeida province, oil tanks, the power plant and the port of Al Hodeida.”
In a statement, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) claimed responsibility for the strike, in which it said that “dozens of air force aircraft” attacked Houthi military targets in Ras Issa and Al Hodeida in Yemen, where they targeted “power plants and the seaport”.
On Saturday, the Houthis said they had launched a ballistic missile targeting Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport “during the arrival of the criminal Benjamin Netanyahu”, Israel’s prime minister.
Tensions in the Middle East have further increased following the assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Friday in an Israeli bombing in the southern suburbs of Beirut.
Israel first attacked Yemen in July, with a similar strike that also targeted the port of Al Hodeida, killing six civilians and hitting more than two dozen tanks storing oil, as well as a power plant.
The Houthis have been attacking Israel-linked ships in the Red Sea since November and have launched projectiles against Israel, some of which have managed to hit Israeli territory. EFE