The Israeli attack launched on Saturday against positions of the Shiite Houthi rebels in the port of Al Hodeida (west), the first by the Jewish State against Yemen, caused chaos at the main outlet to the Red Sea of the Arab country.
Houthi officials said the attack targeted “oil depots and the power plant” in Al Hodeida, a city from which Yemeni insurgents launch a large part of their attacks against Israeli or Israeli-linked ships.
However, port sources said the Israeli bombing targeted “the fuel and gas unloading dock, the fuel storage tanks and the only two container cranes in operation.”
According to these sources, The customs building at the port of Al Hodeida “was destroyed”while on the northern outskirts of the city, Israeli aircraft attacked the headquarters of the Houthi Military Police, as well as a headquarters of the Yemeni insurgents’ intelligence services.
According to Yemen’s Saba news agency, controlled by pro-Iranian rebels, at least 80 people were injured, some of them with serious burns, is the provisional estimate of the victims of the Israeli attack on Al Hodeida.
This is the first account of the Israeli bombardment that caused a huge explosion at the important port of the coastal city, although the Ministry of Health previously said, according to Saba, that there were “martyrs and wounded”, without giving further details.
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2024-07-28 17:59:27