Israeli airstrikes in Yemen's port city of Hudaydah kill 3 civilians, injure 90

The Yemeni health ministry says an Israeli attack on the port city of Hudaydah has killed at least three civilians and wounded 90 more.

Yemeni officials said the attack on Tuesday targeted oil storage facilities and a power plant in the country’s south.

The Israeli army has also confirmed that its fighter jets struck targets in Yemen.

A spokesman for the Ansarallah resistance movement has slammed the attack, saying that pressuring Yemen to stop supporting Gaza is doomed to fail.

The group also said Israel will pay the price of the attack.

Israel also attacked oil storage facilities and a power plant in Hudaydah on July 20. 

At least nine people were killed and 87 others wounded in the Israeli air raids when Israeli warplanes struck more than two dozen oil storage tanks and two shipping cranes in the Yemeni port as well as a power plant in the province.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday denounced last month’s Israeli airstrikes on the Hudaydah port as a “possible war crime.”

“The attacks appeared to cause disproportionate harm to civilians and civilian objects,” the New York-based rights group said.

“Serious violations of the laws of war committed willfully, that is deliberately or recklessly, are war crimes.”

Iran strongly condemns Israeli attack

Iran strongly condemned the Israeli attack on Hudaydah port facilities.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kan'ani said that the oppressed but powerful people of Yemen are paying the price for supporting the innocent women and children of Gaza.

Kan'ani added the attacks demonstrated the aggressive nature of the child-killing Israeli regime, warning such dangerous adventures would further spread the war and escalate tensions across the region.

Kan'ani said the Zionist regime and its supporters; in particular, the United States bear direct responsibility for any unpredictable and dangerous consequences resulting from the attacks.

Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah denounce Israeli strike 

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas also condemned Tel Aviv.

The group said Israel will undoubtedly be burned by the fire that broke out in Hudaydah.

Condemning the Israeli aggression, the Islamic Jihad said it would not have been possible without the blatant support of the US administration and the British government.

Hezbollah in a statement has voiced support for the Yemeni people in defending their sovereignty.

Yemenis have declared their open support for Palestine’s struggle against the Israeli occupation since the regime launched a devastating war on Gaza on October 7 after the territory’s Palestinian resistance movements carried out a surprise retaliatory attack, dubbed Operation Al-Aqsa Storm, against the occupying entity.

Yemen says will surely respond to Israel’s ‘vicious’ attack on Hudaydah

“Yemen’s response in retaliation for the barbaric and vicious Israeli assault on Hudaydah will be delivered through any possible means.”

The Yemeni Armed Forces have said that they won’t stop their attacks until unrelenting Israeli ground and aerial offensives in Gaza end.

Israel launched its brutal campaign of genocide in Gaza on October 7, 2023, after Palestinian resistance groups conducted a surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Storm into the occupied territories.

The regime has had in place a near-total siege on the coastal territory, which has reduced to a trickle the flow of foodstuffs, medicine, electricity, and water into the Palestinian territory.

Israel has killed more than 40,000 Gazans, most of them women, children, and adolescents.

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