Israeli army publishes new scenes from its attack on Yemen

The Israeli army on Sunday showed new footage of the operation in which it targeted the Hodeidah Governorate in Yemen, following the recent attack by the Ansar Allah movement (Houthis) on Tel Aviv with a drone.

The Israeli army published video clips showing scenes from "Operation Long Hand", commenting: "This is how our warplanes launched raids last night on Houthi targets in the Hodeidah port area in Yemen, including the air refueling operation and the pilots' safe return to the homeland."

Earlier, Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari said that  air force planes raided the port of Hodeidah in Yemen  "in response to Houthi attacks over the past nine months."

While the military spokesman for the Houthi armed forces, Brigadier General Yahya Saree, confirmed that they "will respond to this blatant aggression...  and will not hesitate to strike vital targets of the Israeli enemy  ... and to consider the occupied Jaffa area an unsafe area."

The leader of the Ansar Allah group in Yemen, Abdul-Malik Badr al-Din al-Houthi, said today that Israel "wants to portray to its angry and frightened audience that it has achieved a great accomplishment and dealt a painful blow to Yemen," announcing that "targeting Jaffa is the beginning of the fifth stage of escalation, and we consider it a new equation that will continue and be established, God willing and with His support."

He added: "The aggression against Yemen will not benefit the enemy at all or provide it with deterrence, and will not prevent us from continuing the fifth phase of escalation to support Gaza."