Aha Dua Permata: Houthis carry out drone attack on military sites in Israeli port of Eilat

Houthis carry out drone attack on military sites in Israeli port of Eilat

The Yemeni Air Force conducted an operation utilizing several drones against military targets in Umm al-Rashrash and other areas of occupied Palestine, a spokesman for the group Yahya Saria said.

The port of Hodeidah, held by Houthi rebels, is Yemen's principal port on the Red Sea [File: Abduljabbar Zeyad/Reuters]

Houthis from the Yemeni rebel group Ansar Allah have carried out a drone attack on military sites in the Israeli southernmost city of Eilat, said Yahya Saria, a spokesman for the group.

"The Yemeni Air Force conducted an operation utilizing several drones against military targets in Umm al-Rashrash (the Arab name for Eilat - TASS) and other areas of occupied Palestine," Saria said on Al Masirah television.

Speaking on Tuesday, Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarea said the group conducted drone attacks on Eilat and “other areas in occupied Palestine”. Sarea said the group also launched missiles at an MSC United vessel in the Red Sea after it rejected three warning calls.

MSC Mediterranean confirmed that MSC United VIII, which was en route from King Abdullah port in Saudi Arabia to Karachi, Pakistan, came under attack on Tuesday but that the crew was safe. The shipping company says it is conducting an assessment and reported the incident to the US-led naval coalition in the Red Sea.

The statement comes several hours after a British maritime group said it received reports of an incident involving a vessel off the coast of Yemen, saying that drones were sighted and an explosion was heard.

The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) on Tuesday said the incident took place about 60 nautical miles (111km) outside of Yemen’s Hodeidah port.

"A commercial shipping vessel came under attack by two suicide drones,” Al Jazeera correspondent Resul Serdar reported from Djibouti, located in east Africa across the sea from Yemen.

“It [UKMTO] says the drones didn’t cause any damage on the ship. The ship is now safe, continuing its voyage, and they are in constant communication with the naval coalition formed by the United States.”

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