Yemen’s Houthi rebels pledged more attacks against Israel if its war on Hamas in Gaza continues, saying it had already fired drones and ballistic missiles in three separate operations.
“The Yemeni Armed Forces… confirm they will continue to carry out qualitative strikes with missiles and drones until the Israeli aggression stops,” said a Houthi military statement aired on the rebels’ Al-Masirah TV.
بيان القوات المسلحة بشأن العملية العسكرية التي استهدفت عمق الكيان الصهيوني نصرةً للشعب الفلسطيني المظلوم ولمقاومته المجاهدة.pic.twitter.com/p7ujSJtJoE
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Abdelaziz bin Habtour, prime minister of the Huthi government, said the rebels were “part of the axis of resistance” against Israel, which includes Tehran-backed groups in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq, and were fighting with both “words and drones”.
“It is one axis and there is coordination taking place, a joint operations room, and a joint command for all these operations,” he said.
“We cannot allow this arrogant enemy to kill our people.”
It said Houthi rebels “launched a large batch of ballistic missiles… and a large number of armed aircraft” towards Israel on Tuesday, in the third such operation since the Gaza assault began on October 7 after Hamas militants staged the worst attack in Israel’s history.
Earlier, Israel’s military said a “hostile aircraft intrusion” had set off warning sirens in Eilat, its Red Sea resort, later saying it had intercepted a “surface-to-surface missile” fired toward Israeli territory, that was “successfully intercepted by the ‘Arrow’ aerial defence system”.
“All aerial threats were intercepted outside of Israeli territory,” it said.
