Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said in a statement that the group's air force carried out four military operations using four drones against Israeli targets. He explained that the first operation targeted the Israeli General Staff building in the occupied Jaffa area with a Sammad 4 drone.
Saree pointed out that "the other three Israeli targets are the Hadera power station, the Lod (Ben Gurion) Airport in Yafo, and the Ashdod port, and the operations successfully hit their targets."
The group also announced that it had targeted the MSC ABY ship in the northern Red Sea with two drones and a winged missile for "violating the ban on entry to occupied Palestinian ports," confirming that it had been "directly hit."
Saree said that targeting the ship comes "as part of the ongoing ban on Israeli maritime traffic in the Red and Arabian Seas."
The military spokesman pointed out that these operations come "in support of our oppressed brothers in Gaza, who have been subjected to prolonged (Israeli) aggression, the siege has intensified, their enemy has killed and starved them, and they have been let down by the cowards."
Earlier on Tuesday, the Israeli military announced in a statement that the air force "intercepted a drone launched from Yemen before it entered Israeli territory," without activating the alarms, in accordance with established policy.
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This is the second time the Israeli military has reported intercepting a drone from Yemen since Israel's attack on the capital, Sanaa, last Thursday, which resulted in the deaths of Houthi officials.
On Monday, the Israeli army said in a statement: "A drone launched from Yemen was intercepted before it entered Israeli territory. No alerts were activated, in accordance with established policy."
In addition to targeting ships, the Houthis are launching missile and drone attacks on Israel, claiming this is in response to the US-backed genocidal war it has been waging against the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023.
The Israeli genocide in Gaza left 63,633 Palestinians dead, 160,914 injured, most of them children and women, more than 9,000 missing, hundreds of thousands displaced, and a famine that killed 361 Palestinians, including 130 children.
