Yemeni Armed Forces Spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Saree
The Yemeni army (backed by Ansar Allah movement aka Houthis) announced on July 14 that they had attacked an Israeli ship in the Gulf of Aden and Eilat area in southern occupied Palestine in response to the recent Israeli airstrikes in the Mawasi area in Khan Yunis.
According to a Yemeni army spokesman, the Yemeni army attacked MSC UNIFIC ships in the Gulf of Aden with several naval missiles and suicide drones.
“The naval forces, UAV, and the missile forces of the Yemeni Armed Forces carried out a joint operation targeting the Israeli ship (MSC UNIFIC) in the Gulf of Aden, with a number of ballistic missiles and drones,” Houthi military spokesman, Brigade General Yahya Saree, said in a statement.”
The spokesman also added the Yemeni army attacked Israeli positions in Um al-Rashrash (Eilat) with several suicide drones.
“The UAV Force carried out a targeting operation against number of military targets of the Israeli enemy in the Umm al-Rashrash area, south of occupied Palestine with a number of UAVs,” Yahya Sraee said. “The operation has successfully achieved its objectives, thanks to God.”
MSC UNIFIC is a container ship operating under the flag of Liberia. This ship was also attacked by several cruise missiles in the Arabian Sea last week.
MSC UNIFIC
On July 13, the Israeli regime targeted a designated humanitarian zone “al-Mawasi” in Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip. At least 71 Palestinians were martyred and more than 290 others were wounded.
The Israeli military aggression in the Gaza Strip has so far claimed the lives of more than 38,000 Palestinains, mostly women and children.
The AnsarAllah-backed Yemeni army emphasized that attacks on Israeli affiliated ship and Eilat were carried out in retaliation to the Al-Mawasi massacre in Khan Yunis.
It’s worth mentioning that the Houthis have attacked dozens of vessels affiliated with Israel or owned by the U.S. and the United Kingdom in the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden, the Arabian Sea, the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea since November in response to the Israeli war crime and siege on Gaza.
On the other side, the U.S. and the UK have carried out hundreds of strikes against Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen since January in response to these attacks. However, the military campaign failed to deter the Houthis or even to degrade their military capabilities.
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