The TV station Al-Masirah, which is considered the mouthpiece of the Houthi rebels, had previously reported on around a dozen attacks, including in the strategically important port city of Hodeidah. There were initially no reports of victims.
The Houthis blamed the US and Britain for the attacks. However, the Ministry of Defense in London said when asked that the Royal Air Force was not involved in attacks in Yemen. According to Al-Masirah, the capital Sanaa, the western port city of Hodeidah, and Dhamar and Mukayras south of Sanaa were attacked.
Sanaa was reportedly attacked four times and Hodeidah seven times. At least one attack was carried out against Dhamar and Mukayras. The broadcaster did not provide any information about damage or possible victims.
“This aggression against the capital and Yemeni regions after the solidarity marches for Lebanon and Gaza is a desperate attempt to terrorize our people,” said a Houthi leader at Al-Masirah. Yemen will not allow itself to be intimidated and will “fight the enemy with all its might.” Thousands of people demonstrated in Sanaa on Friday to show their solidarity with Palestinians and Lebanese.
Neither the USA nor Great Britain initially commented on the attacks. On Thursday, the Iranian-backed Houthi militia said it carried out a drone attack on the Israeli coastal metropolis of Tel Aviv. On Wednesday it fired cruise missiles at Israel. Israel, for its part, attacked Yemen last month, killing five people. According to Israeli sources, the attack was in response to Houthi rocket fire at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv. Since the Gaza war broke out, the Houthis have regularly fired rockets and drones at targets in Israel and ships in the Red Sea.
