Sanaa, Apr 21 (EFE).- Yemen’s Houthi rebels claimed responsibility for two drone attacks on Monday against the cities of Ashkelon and Eilat, in southern Israel, in addition to operations against two US aircraft carriers stationed in the Red Sea that serve as launching bases for actions against the insurgent group.
Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Sarea said in a statement that the attacks against Israel were “for the oppressed Palestinian people and in rejection of the crime of genocide being waged by the Israeli enemy, with American support, against our people in Gaza.”
“The first targeted a vital Israeli enemy target in the occupied Ashkelon area using a Yaffa drone, while the second targeted an Israeli military target in the Umm al-Rashrash area in southern occupied Palestine using a Sammad-1 drone,” Sarea said.
The spokesperson also claimed responsibility for two military operations against the US in “retaliation to the American aggression against our country and its massacres against our people.”
US airstrikes on the Yemeni capital on Sunday left at least 12 dead and some 30 wounded.
The first operation by the Houthis was carried out with two cruise missiles and two drones against the US aircraft carrier Truman and its affiliated vessels in the northern Red Sea while the second was conducted against the USS Carl Vinson in the Arabian Sea with three cruise missiles and four drones, the spokesperson said.
“The military operations have successfully achieved their objectives,” Sarea said.
The spokesperson warned that the Iran-backed movement will continue its military operations “deep within the Zionist entity in occupied Palestine at an escalating pace over the coming period” if the war in the Gaza Strip did not cease.
He added that they will also continue attacking “hostile forces” – a reference to the US – in the Red and Arabian Seas, after Washington launched a new bombing campaign against Houthi positions in Yemen on Mar. 15, following orders from US President Donald Trump, which has left dozens dead. EFE
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