STORY: Israel bombs Houthi oil sites in Yemen's Hodeidah, several killed
SHOOTING TIME: July 20, 2024
DATELINE: July 21, 2024
LENGTH: 0:00:35
LOCATION: Sanaa
CATEGORY: POLITICS/SOCIETY

SHOTLIST:
1. various of fires raging in the port of Hodeidah after an Israel airstrike on July 20  (courtesy of local residents)

STORYLINE:

Israel's military confirmed Saturday that it bombed sites affiliated with the Houthi militia in Yemen, a day after the military group's explosive drone killed a man in Israel's Tel Aviv.

The Yemeni Houthi military group claimed that the strike targeted oil storage and electric facilities in Yemen's Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, and several people were either killed or injured, the group's al-Masirah TV reported in a correction story.

Israeli military said in a statement that its fighter jets targetted "military targets" of the Houthi militia, as a response to "the hundreds of attacks carried out against the State of Israel in recent months."

The statement came after Houthi top negotiator Mohammed Abdulsalam said the Israeli strikes would not stop the military group from targetting "Israeli cities and ships."

Local health authorities have yet to reveal the exact number of casualties, the Houthi-run TV said.

The alleged strikes came a day after the Houthi group claimed responsibility for a bomb-laden drone attack on a building in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, which according to Israeli media killed one person and injured 10 others.

The Houthis said the Friday drone attack came in support of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip currently under Israeli offensive. Before that, the Houthis had continued a series of drone and missile attacks against what it called Israeli-linked shipments in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden since November 2023 in a way to show solidarity with Gaza.

In response, the U.S.-British naval coalition in the waters attacked Houthi targets to deter the group, but only led to Houthi expansion of attacks to include U.S. and British commercial and military ships.

Hodeidah has been under the control of the Houthi group along with several northern cities, including the capital Sanaa, since late 2014, driving the internationally recognized government out to the southern and eastern provinces.

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Sanaa.
(XHTV)