Al-Houthi: The number of victims of the Hodeidah attack has risen to 3 and the occupation intercepts a missile from Yemen

The Yemeni Houthi group announced today, Sunday, that the number of victims of the Israeli attack on Al-Hodeidah Governorate (west) had risen to 3 dead and 87 wounded, while the Israeli occupation army announced on Sunday morning that it had intercepted a surface-to-surface missile launched from Yemen and was on its way to Israeli territory.

Al-Masirah TV, affiliated with the Houthis, quoted the Ministry of Health and Population in the group’s unrecognized government as saying, “The death toll from the Israeli aggression on Hodeidah has risen to 3 dead and 87 wounded.”

The director of Al-Thawra Hospital (General) in Al-Hodeidah Governorate said, "Those injured as a result of the Zionist bombing were distributed to the city's hospitals and are receiving medical care," according to the same channel.

On Saturday, Israeli aircraft launched airstrikes targeting the port of Hodeidah, its fuel tanks, and the power station, killing two people and injuring 80 others with various burns, according to the Houthi Ministry of Health.

On another note, the Israeli occupation army announced, on Sunday morning, the interception of a surface-to-surface missile launched from Yemen, saying in a statement, "The air defense succeeded in intercepting a surface-to-surface missile launched from Yemen towards Israel."

He added that the interception was carried out "through the Arrow 3 system," claiming that the missile did not penetrate Israeli territory, and that the alarms were activated for fear of falling fragments from the interception operation.

There was no immediate comment from the Yemeni Houthi group regarding the missile.

On Saturday, Israeli aircraft launched airstrikes targeting the port of Hodeidah, its fuel tanks, and the power station, killing 3 people and injuring 80 others with various burns, according to the Houthi Ministry of Health.

The Israeli occupation army claimed responsibility for the raids, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu considered them a "direct response" to a drone attack launched by the Houthi group on the city of Tel Aviv at dawn on Friday, which led to the death of an Israeli and the injury of 10 others.

For its part, the Houthi group confirmed that the Israeli attack on Hodeidah "will only increase its determination and steadfastness" in supporting the Gaza Strip, and threatened operations that will "disturb" Tel Aviv in response to the attack, according to tweets on the X platform by the group's spokesman, Mohammed Abdul Salam, and a member of its Supreme Political Council, Mohammed Ali al-Houthi.

In "solidarity with Gaza" in the face of the Israeli war that has been ongoing since October 7, 2023, the Houthi group has begun targeting Israeli or Israeli-linked cargo ships in the Red Sea with missiles and drones since November.

In response to these attacks, Washington and London began, since the beginning of this year, launching air strikes and missile attacks on “Houthi sites” in Yemen, which the group responded to by announcing that it now considers all American and British ships among its military targets, and expanding its attacks to ships passing through the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean or any place its weapons can reach.