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Yemen conducts 4 retaliatory operations against Israeli, US targets

Friday, 17 January 2025 4:29 PM [ Last Update: Friday, 17 January 2025 4:29 PM ]

Yemen's Armed Forces spokesman Yahya Saree

The Yemeni Armed Forces spokesman says they have carried out four military operations against Israeli and US targets in retaliation for the genocide in Gaza and anti-Yemen strikes.

In a statement on Friday, Brigadier General Yahya Saree said “four cruise missiles” were fired at “vital” Israeli targets in the city of Umm Rashrash, also known as Eilat, in the southern part of Occupied Palestine, describing the operation as “successful.”

He added that two other drone attacks “successfully” hit Israeli targets in occupied Yaffa (Tel Aviv) and Asqalan.

Meanwhile, Saree announced that the Yemeni naval forces targeted the American aircraft carrier "USS Harry S. Truman" in the northern Red Sea, using a number of drones. “The operation achieved its goals successfully.”

The operation came after US warplanes launched multiple airstrikes on Yemen's northwestern province of ‘Amran.

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Saree reiterated the armed forces’ readiness to respond to any anti-Yemen Israeli or US escalatory actions, and also vowed to retaliate in case Israel intensified its attacks on Gaza.

He made the remarks during a pro-Gaza rally in the capital Sana’a.

On an almost a weekly basis, Yemenis have been staging mass protests across the country to decry the Israeli atrocities in Gaza, and to reiterate their support for their country’s retaliatory operations.

Since the onset of Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip in October 2023, Yemeni forces have carried out scores of operations in support of the war-hit Gazans, striking targets throughout the occupied Palestinian territories, in addition to targeting Israeli ships or vessels heading towards ports in the occupied territories.

Israel launched a genocidal war on Gaza on October 7, 2023 after the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas waged the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the occupying entity in response to the Israeli regime's decades-long campaign of bloodletting and devastation against Palestinians.

The regime’s bloody onslaught on Gaza has so far killed at least 46,788 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured more than 110,453 others. Thousands more are also missing and presumed dead under rubble.

Despite the announcement of a ceasefire deal on Wednesday, Israel has intensified its airstrikes and artillery shelling on Gaza, killing dozens of people.

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