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Israel announced on Monday that it had struck Hodeida infrastructure in Hodeida, western Yemen, in response “to attacks” of the Yemeni allied rebels of Iran, who claimed the day before a missile shot on the main Israeli airport.
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05 May 2025 – 21:28
(Keystone-ATS) The Israeli army said that the infrastructure targeted in the port of Hodeida, using missiles and drones, were used for the “transfer of Iranian weapons and military equipment”.
These strikes were carried out “in response to the repeated attacks of the Houthi terrorist regime against the State of Israel,” added the army, specifying that it had targeted a cement center in the east of the city which it describes as “important economic resource for the Houthis”.
The Houthis, who control a large part of Yemen, had previously accused the United States of having led strikes on Sanaa, the country’s capital in their hands, and denounced “American-Israeli” strikes on Hodeida.
Affirming to act in solidarity with the Palestinians, the Houthis claimed dozens of missile and drone attacks against Israel, located more than 1800 kilometers from Yemen, since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
Almost all of the shots were intercepted.
They also multiplied the attacks on ships which they consider linked to Israel off Yemen.
Israel has led in recent months several strikes against Houthi strategic targets in Yemen while the United States, the main ally of Israel, intensified their rebels from Donald Trump’s return to the White House.
Unpublished attack
On Sunday, a missile pulled by the Houthis had struck directly for the first time, according to the Israeli army, inside the perimeter of Ben Gurion airport, near Tel Aviv. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had promised to retaliate against the Houthis and against Iran.
On Monday, the rebels said that a dozen American strikes targeted Sanaa before dawn, who was 16 injured according to their news agency, Saba.
Houthis television Al-Masirah later announced that three other strikes had targeted Sanaa and seven others the Al-Jawf governorate in the North.
In the early evening, Al-Masirah denounced “an American-Israeli assault”, reporting “six strikes against the port of Hodeida” as well as other attacks on the Bajil district, in the same governorate controlled by the rebels.
However, an American military official denied that the United States has participated in the Israeli strikes.
On Sunday, the Houthis claimed the attack on Ben Gurion airport, carried out “with a hypersonic ballistic missile”.
The rebels said that they will “strive to impose a total air blockade on the Israeli enemy by repeating the airports repeatedly (…) more particularly Ben Gourion airport”, where air traffic was briefly interrupted.
According to an AFP photographer, the missile fell into an area planted with trees next to an access ramp for the parking lots of Terminal 3. The emergency services reported six light injured.
“Many boys”
Benjamin Netanyahu immediately promised to retaliate. “We have acted against them in the past and we will act in the future but I cannot detail (…) It will not go + a single boom + but there will be + a lot of Boums +,” he warned.
“The attacks of the Houthis emanate from Iran. Israel will respond to (this) attack by the Houthis (…) in due time and in a place chosen by us, to their Iranian masters, “he added.
Iran denied Monday to have helped the Houthis for this attack.
The Iranian diplomacy chief Abbas Araghchi also accused Israel of wanting to train the United States in a “disaster” in the Middle East.
“The deadly support for the genocide of Netanyahu in Gaza and the war waged in the name of Netanyahu in Yemen brought nothing to the American people,” said Araghchi on X, warning against “any error against Iran”.
The Israeli security firm approved on Monday an extension of military operations aimed at the “conquest” of the Gaza Strip, after the mobilization of tens of thousands of reservists.
