SANAA (Dispatches) -- Yemen’s Ansarullah group said it launched a “large number” of drones and ballistic missiles towards Occupied Palestine on Tuesday, after Israel’s military claimed it downed an approaching “aerial target” off the Red Sea city of Eilat.
The operation was the third targeting the occupying regime of Israel and there would be more, Ansarullah military spokesperson Yahya Saree said in a televised statement.
Saree said the attacks would continue until “Israeli aggression” stopped, referring to the war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
After an initial warning of a possible “hostile aircraft intrusion”, which sent residents of the tourist resort of Eilat running for shelter earlier on Tuesday, the Israeli military had said its “systems identified an aerial target approaching” the occupied territories.
Saree said the aerial assault, comprising drones as well as ballistic and cruise missiles, was carried out “out of a sense of religious, moral, humanitarian and national responsibility” for the people of Gaza, in the face of the weakness of the Arab world, and of the collusion of some Arab countries with Israel.”
“We affirm that the position of our Yemeni people towards the Palestinian issue is firm and principled, and that the Palestinian people have the full right to self-defense and to restore their full legitimate rights, and that what destabilizes the region and expands the circle of conflict is the persistence of the Zionist enemy entity in committing crimes,” Saree said.
Drone infiltration sirens sounded in Eilat on Tuesday morning, with the Zionist military initially saying it had identified an “aerial target” approaching the territory.
Rocket sirens also sounded in several central regions, including Tel Aviv following Israel’s heavy bombing of the residential Jablia camp in Gaza, according to Israeli media.
Yemen’s Ansarullah leader Abdel-Malek al-Houthi said on October 10 that if the U.S. intervenes in the Gaza conflict directly, the resistance group will respond by firing drones and missiles, and take other military options.
Ansarullah sees itself as part of the “Axis of Resistance” which encompasses resistance factions in Iraq and Lebanon’s Hezbollah group.
The movement has battled a Saudi-led coalition since 2015 in a conflict. During the fighting, Ansarullah targeted strategic assets in the Persian Gulf, most notably energy facilities in Saudi Arabia.
The Zionist military said Tuesday it used the “Arrow” aerial missile system for the first time since the October 7 outbreak of the war with Hamas to intercept a surface-to-surface missile in the Red Sea fired towards its targets.
A spokesman told Reuters the two aerial incidents were separate. In the second incident, Israeli fighter jets intercepted other aerial targets, he added.
Last week, the occupying regime of Israel accused Ansarullah of sending drones that caused explosions in two Egyptian towns on the Red Sea, saying they were intended to strike Israel.
The Pentagon said a U.S. Navy warship intercepted three cruise missiles and several drones launched Ansarullah of Yemen, potentially toward Israel, on October 19.