The Yemeni Houthi group has claimed responsibility for launching a Palestine 2 hypersonic ballistic missile at Israel’s Nevatim Airbase, the group’s military spokesman Yahya Saree said Tuesday.
As per the Middle East Monitor report, Saree said the missile attack came “in support of the oppressed Palestinian people and in response to the [Israeli] enemy’s massacres against our brothers in the Gaza Strip”.
He warned that the Yemeni armed forces will expand their list of targets inside Israel in the coming hours and days if Israeli strikes in Gaza did not stop.
Saree stated that “Yemen, its leadership, people, and army, will not stand idly by while it witnesses all these massacres against our brothers in Gaza.
“The Yemeni Armed Forces will mobilise all their capabilities and potential to defend and support the oppressed in Palestine until these crimes against our brothers in Gaza stop,” he said, adding that they will continue “to confront the criminal American enemy and prevent Israeli shipping until the aggression stops, the blockade is lifted, and aid is allowed into the Gaza Strip”.
This comes after U.S. warplanes targeted several governorates in Yemen and the capital, Sana’a, over Yemen’s support of Gaza.
The Houthis announced on Tuesday that they would carry out a military operation against the U.S. aircraft carrier USS Harry Truman within 48 hours.
US President Donald Trump said he had ordered his country’s military to launch a decisive and powerful military operation against the Houthis in Yemen.
As of Monday evening, more than 50 U.S. airstrikes had been monitored in Yemen, resulting in killing 53 people and wounding 98 others, including women and children, according to the Houthis.
In solidarity with the Gaza Strip, which has been facing a genocidal war by Israel since 7 October, 2023, the Houthis have targeted Israeli sites, cargo ships, or those linked with Tel Aviv with missiles and drones, expressing their determination to continue operations until the end of the onslaught on the enclave.
