SANAA/BEIRUT (Dispatches) -- Yemen’s armed forces carried out three joint military operations with Iraqi resistance groups targeting Israeli positions, a military spokesman said Tuesday.
Yahya Saree said two drone attacks successfully struck Zionist positions in northern Israeli occupied territories, while another operation targeted a significant site in Umm al-Rashrash, referring to Eilat port in the south.
All three operations, conducted using multiple drones within a 48-hour timeframe, achieved their intended objectives, he said.
Saree emphasized the commitment of both Yemeni and Iraqi resistance fighters to continue their response to Israeli aggression until it ceases and the blockade on Gaza is lifted.
Since the onset of Israel’s military campaign against Gaza over a year ago, Yemen has carried out hundreds of operations against Israeli targets.
The Yemeni forces have also imposed a de facto blockade on Israel, restricting the movement of Israeli-linked vessels in the Red Sea and Arabian Sea.
On Tuesday, Israeli military strikes martyred at least 23 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip, most of them in the town of Beit Lahiya on the northern edge, medics said, as the army issued new evacuation orders in the south of the small enclave.
Medics said eight people had been killed in a series of airstrikes in Beit Lahiya while four others were killed elsewhere in Gaza City.
An Israeli airstrike later killed two people and wounded others in Jabalia, the largest of Gaza’s eight historic refugee camps, in the coastal enclave’s north, medics said.
The health ministry in Gaza said Tuesday that at least 44,502 people have been martyred in nearly 14 months of Israeli war on the enclave.
The toll includes 36 deaths in the previous 24 hours, according to the ministry, which said 105,454 people have been wounded in the Gaza Strip since the war began.
Lebanon’s health ministry said an Israeli drone strike on a southern town killed one person on Tuesday, despite a ceasefire.
“An Israeli enemy drone strike on the town of Shebaa killed one person,” a health ministry statement said. The state-run National News Agency described the dead man as a “shepherd”.
Since last Wednesday, the Zionist regime has violated the ceasefire for more than 100 times, Lebanese and French officials have said.
On Tuesday, Israel threatened to return to its war on Lebanon, saying this time its attacks would go deeper and target the Lebanese state itself.
The attack and the threat came after Hezbollah shelled an Israeli military post, while Lebanese authorities said at least 12 people were killed in Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon.
Hezbollah said it fired on an Israeli military position in the area as a “defensive and warning response” after “repeated violations” of the ceasefire deal by Israel.
In its strongest threat since the truce was agreed to end 14 months of war with Hezbollah, the Zionist regime said it would hold Lebanon responsible for failing to disarm Hezbollah.
“If we return to war we will act strongly, we will go deeper, and the most important thing they need to know: that there will be no longer be an exemption for the state of Lebanon,” war minister Israel Katz said.
“If until now we separated the state of Lebanon from Hezbollah... it will no longer be [like this],” he said during a visit to the northern border area.
Despite last week’s truce, Israeli forces have continued strikes ignoring the agreement to halt attacks and withdraw beyond the Litani River, about 30 km (18 miles) from the frontier.
Top Lebanese officials urged Washington and Paris to press Israel to uphold the ceasefire, two senior Lebanese political sources told Reuters on Tuesday.