SANA’A (Dispatches) -- Yemen’s military said on Sunday that it had launched a ballistic missile targeting a key Israeli power facility, marking an escalation in the country’s operations amid the Zionist regime’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Yahya Saree, the military spokesperson, said Yemeni forces used a hypersonic “Palestine-2” missile to strike the Orot Rabin power plant, located south of Haifa. He described the attack as a “successful operation” and part of Yemen’s “religious, moral, and humanitarian duty” to support Palestinians.
“We will continue our supportive military operations for the mujahideen in Gaza,” Sarea declared, adding that Yemen is committed to developing its military capabilities to pressure Israel into halting its genocide in Gaza. 
Yemeni forces have intensified their activities in the Red Sea over the past year, targeting U.S., British and Israeli vessels as part of a naval blockade against Israel. They say the operations are in solidarity with Palestinians.
The Zionist regime as well as the U.S. and UK conduct strikes against Yemen in a bid to dissuade the country from targeting the Zionist regime, but Yemeni forces have remained undeterred.
Early Sunday, U.S. and British forces conducted fresh airstrikes targeting Yemen’s northwestern city of Sa’ada, mere days following the alliance’s aerial bombardment of the western coastal province of Hudaydah.
Yemen’s official Saba news agency, citing a local source speaking on condition of anonymity, reported that the Western military alliance carried out three aerial attacks east of the provincial capital city of Sa’ada.
On December 30, the U.S.-British naval coalition launched two airstrikes on Yemen’s western coastal province of Hudaydah, targeting the Tuhayta district in the southwest of the province.
A member of the Supreme Political Council of Yemen also issued a warning to Saudi Arabia whose forces targeted a border region on Thursday evening, killing a Yemeni civilian and an African refugee.
“Our people have the experience and readiness to confront any escalation of tensions that aim to distract people from the issue of Palestine,” Muhammad Ali al-Houthi said.
“We tell Saudi Arabia that the de-escalation was a golden opportunity to review the wrong assessments that previously got you into trouble,” he said, referring to years of war between the two sides.
“You thought that Yemen would fall in two weeks, and today every other mistake will fail and the Yemeni people will win,” he added.
In March 2015, Saudi Arabia launched a war on Yemen in collaboration with its Arab allies and the support of the U.S. and some Western countries to 
reinstall a Riyadh-friendly regime and crush the Ansarullah resistance movement.
The Saudi-led coalition, however, achieved none of the objectives and remained bogged down in Yemen for years in the face of stiff resistance by its nation and armed forces.
Yemen’s arsenal includes long-range ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and drones capable of hitting targets up to 2,000 kilometers away, which has been on full display in recent months and weeks.
The domestically manufactured missiles have repeatedly penetrated Israel’s much-hyped military systems.
In recent weeks, Yemen has notably intensified its pro-Palestinian strikes on Israeli military targets within the occupied territories, employing advanced hypersonic ballistic missiles.